40 Stralongford Road,

The Department's description

Exterior description and setting

Detached symmetrical three-bay two-storey house, built c.1830, located to the south side of Stralongford Road, Trillick. Rectangular-on-plan facing east; attached single-storey outbuilding at south adjoining further perpendicular range aligned east-west also built c.1830.

Roof is hipped natural slate, blue/black clay ridge tiles; two dressed stone chimneystacks with chimneypots. Projecting eaves course supporting u-profile cast-iron rainwater goods. Walls are roughly coursed rubble stone, south elevation is smooth rendered; windows are 8/8 timber sliding sashes (2/2 at rear) with exposed boxes, stone voussoirs and projecting stone cills.

Principal elevation faces east with window to each bay at each floor arranged about a central entrance door. Entrance comprises replacement timber panelled entrance door with original transom light over.

Left (south) gable is abutted at left by single-storey extension built c.1910 with pitched natural slate roof connecting the main house to a single-storey random rubble outbuilding at south built c.1830. Exposed section is blank.

Rear (west) elevation contains three windows at each floor.

Right (north) gable is blank.

Setting

The house is accessed from north; attached outbuildings at south abutted a perpendicular range of random rubble outbuildings with lime washed random rubble walling; timber-sheeted doors and metal sheeted roofs.

Roof Natural Slate
Walling stone/render
Windows timber
RWG cast-iron

Historical information

The house appears on the first edition OS map of 1833, along with an outbuilding to the south east. Further outbuildings appear to the south west (1852 edition) and to the north (1905 edition).

The building is recorded in the Townland Valuation as a ‘House and offices, occupied by Gerard Irwin; it is valued at £6.6s.4d, and dimensions are given for a house, addition and three offices. Griffith’s Valuation of 1858 values the property at £5. Gerard Irvine Senior is the owner in fee. Valuation Revisions record a change in occupier to Henry Irvine in 1864 and to John and Wilkin Irvine in 1913.

By 1933 Wilkin Irvine is the owner and the property is revised in value to £7 after this date, however, the change is undated. At this time the property comprises two rooms, a b[reakfast?] room, kitchen and scullery downstairs and five bedrooms on the first floor. A plan and dimensions are given, the scullery appearing as a small extension to the south of the current house.

The current owner advises that his family owned much land around Irvinestown, Co Fermanagh, which is not far from this house.

References:

Primary Sources

1. PRONI OS/6/6/49/1-4 - Ordnance Survey Maps (1833, 1852, 1905, 1939)
2. PRONI VAL/1/A/6/49 - Townland Valuation (1820-1840)
3. PRONI VAL/1/B/631A-B - Townland Valuation (1820-1840)
4. PRONI VAL/2/A/6/49 - Griffith’s Valuation Map (1858)
5. PRONI VAL/2/B/6/33A - Griffith’s Valuation (1858)
6. PRONI VAL/12/B/40/4A-F - Valuation Revisions (1866-1929)
7. PRONI VAL/3D/7/8DD/1 – Valuers’ RV Binder (1933-1957)

Criteria for listing: architectural interest

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

Criteria for listing: historic interest

X. Local Interest

Evaluation

A symmetrical three-bay two-storey late Georgian house, built c.1830. The house displays massing and proportion typical of the period, enhanced by good quality stonework, original fenestration and modest detailing. As a small, formal Georgian farmhouse, it is of note, as not many survive and this property would appear to represent a stratum of society between the large estates and the local farming community. An unchanged farmyard setting adds to the historic character of the site.

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