Dullerton Manor House,

The Department's description

Exterior description and setting

Detached three-bay two-storey Arts-and-Crafts house built c.1890, located to the south side of Dullerton Road, Strabane; the former servant house belonging to the previously adjoining manor house; subsequently lost in fire. Rectangular-on-plan facing west with two-storey canted bay at right; single-storey lean-to at south gable and single-storey extension to (east) rear.

Roofs are pitched asbestos tiled; red clay ridge tiles; two smooth rendered corbelled chimneystacks with clay pots; timber eaves boards supported on carved timber brackets; timber bargeboards and decorative timber finials; replacement uPVC rainwater goods throughout; timber framed construction with large studding and ornamental panelling to gables; projecting brick groundcill; timber cladding is horizontally sheeted at ground floor and vertically sheeted at first floor; (north wall is masonry construction where this house previously adjoined the original Dullerton Manor house.) Windows are timber casements (top hung four-panes over single fixed pane) with timber cills.

Principal (east) elevation right bay contains a two-storey canted bay; central bay contains principal entrance with (five-pane-wide) casement window at left; two (five-pane-wide, diminished) windows at first floor. Canted bay has pitched asbestos tiled roof; decorative timber bargeboard and finial; and contains (three-pane-wide) casement window to south; single to each cheek at each floor; first floor windows are diminished. Entrance comprises glazed panelled door with sidelight over fixed panels. Surmounted by bellcast asbestos tiled canopy with bargeboard and timber finial supported on horizontally sheeted timber plinth and carved timber balusters; accessed by three masonry steps.

Left (south) gable contains (three-pane-wide) timber casement at right at ground floor; single window at first floor, off-centre at left. Timber ornamental panelling to apex.

Rear (west) elevation is abutted at centre by single-storey lean-to extension; exposed section above has a (four-pane-wide) window; at right the walls are smooth rendered masonry construction and contain two (three-pane-wide) windows at first floor; exposed section at left contains a (three-pane-wide) window at each floor, (that at first floor diminished.)

Right (north) gable is abutted at left by single-storey lean-to extension; exposed section contains (three-pane-wide) window at left; two (three-pane-wide) windows at first floor, diminished.

South single-storey lean-to extension is detailed as main house with (three-pane-wide) window to south elevation; (two-pane-wide) window to each cheek.

Rear (west) extension has felted lean-to roof; walls are detailed as main house; windows are uPVC casements. South elevation contains replacement timber entrance door at left and window at right; east elevation contains single window; north elevation is blank.

Set within a large estate to the north of Dullerton Road, the house remains in connected to the foundation structure of the original Dullerton Manor House; the house is visible to plinth level and two sets of steps and mosaic floor are still visible; now covered with gravel the original Dullerton Manor House remains as a footprint. The house is accessed from the Dullerton Road, beside the Dullerton Manor gate lodge (HB10/10/002B). Located to the north of the house are the original outbuildings (HB10/10/002C).

Roof Asbestos tile
Walling Timber sheeted
Windows Generally Timber casements with timber cills
RWG Replacement uPVC

Historical information

A house first appears on the site on the second edition of the OS Map in 1854, captioned “Glenview House.” On the third edition of the OS Map (1906) Glenview House has fallen into disuse and a new house appears adjacent to it captioned “Dullerton.”

Griffith’s Valuation records that the old house was leased by William Ogilby Esq. from Robert Bond Esq. and consisted of a house (46x50x24), a basement (46x50x7.6), two offices and a gate lodge (24x18x18), all valued at £34. A marginal note judges it a “very fine house.”

The Annual Revisions show the plot being owned by the Bond family in fee until at least 1925. It would seem that Colonel, later General, William D Bond had the new house, outbuildings and gate lodge built at some time between 1890 and 1903 when they appear in the records, with a value of £96 for the house and outbuildings and £7 for the gate lodge. The new house and gate lodge are drawn onto the Valuation Map for this period.

References:

Primary Sources

1. PRONI OS/6/6/2/1– First Edition OS Map (1833)
2. PRONI OS/6/6/2/2 – Second Edition OS Map (1854)
3. PRONI OS/6/6/2/3 – Third Edition OS Map (1906)
4. PRONI VAL/1/A/6/2 – Townland Valuation Map(1828-40)
5. PRONI VAL/1/B/639A&B – Townland Valuation Records (1828-40)
6. PRONI VAL/2/A/6/2A-B – Griffith’s Valuation Map (1856-64)
7. PRONI VAL/2/B/6/42C – Griffith’s Valuation (1856-64)
8. PRONI VAL/12/B/42/18A-G – Annual Revision Records (1860-1925)

Secondary Sources

1. Dean, J. A. K. “The Gate Lodges of Ulster: A Gazetteer.” Belfast: Ulster Architectural Heritage Society, 1994.

Criteria for listing: architectural interest

A. Style
B. Proportion
C. Ornamentation
D. Plan Form
I. Quality and survival of Interior
J. Setting
K. Group value

Criteria for listing: historic interest

X. Local Interest
Y. Social, Cultural or Economic Importance

Evaluation

A finely detailed detached three-bay two-storey Arts-and-Crafts house built c.1890, located to the north side of Dullerton Road, Strabane; the former servant house belonging to the previously adjoining manor house; subsequently lost in fire. The house is well constructed with delicately detailed entrance and bellcast canopy; it remains a striking building and is further enhanced by its estate setting with original outbuildings (HB10/10/002C) to south-east and gate lodge (HB10/10/002B) located just north of the Dullerton Road, with which it has group value.

General comments

This record has been renumbered. It was previously HB10/10/002.