104 Willmount Road

The Department's description

Exterior description and setting

Detached three-bay single-storey direct-entry vernacular dwelling, built c.1890, located to the east side of Wilmount Road. Direct-entry rectangular plan with small wind-break porch to north; remains of single-storey lean-to outbuilding and further outbuilding to east.

Roof is pitched corrugated metal with raised stone verges; rubble chimneys with fieldstone quoins. Walls are of rubble construction and lime-rendered (partially fallen away). Windows are timber framed 2/2 sliding sash (divided horizontally) with exposed sash boxes (replacement metal casements to rear); painted masonry sills.

Principal elevation faces north; left bay contains single window; right bay contains windbreak porch with timber lintel (door missing) flanked by single window at right.

East gable contains two window openings at attic level; abutted at ground floor by remains of lean-to rubble outbuilding; roof has partially collapsed.

South elevation contains two windows.

West gable is blank.

Setting

The house is set perpendicular to the road in a remote rural
setting within agricultural land; site is directly accessed from road; bounded to east by wire fencing; largely overgrown with vegetation to other boundaries.

Roof Corrugated metal
Walling Lime-rendered stone
Windows Timber
RWG Cast-iron

Historical information

The building appears to date from c.1890. The house first appears on the third edition of the Ordnance Survey Map (1905).

It forms part of a group of houses in Annual Revision Records and is not individually identified. From 1862 the group is occupied by the McElhone family and leased from Rev G S Mansfield. A note of 1892 reads, ‘New house, value high enough’ indicating that, although a new house had been built, there would be no increase to the valuation of £1.5s for the plot.

References:

Primary Sources
1. PRONI OS/6/6/33/3 – Third Edition Ordnance Survey Map (1905)
2. PRONI OS/6/6/33/4 – Fourth Edition Ordnance Survey Map (1939-51)
3. PRONI VAL/12/D/6/33/C – Annual Revisions Valuation Map
4. PRONI VAL/12/B/35/21/A-F – Annual Revision Records (1860-1923)

Criteria for listing: architectural interest

Not listed

Criteria for listing: historic interest

Not listed

Evaluation

Detached two-bay single-storey direct-entry vernacular dwelling, built c.1890, located to the east side of Willmount Road. It is vernacular in style with simple construction and materials but of good quality, built in stone, including dressed stone quoins, with corrugated pitched roof replacing original thatch and structure. Although some features survive, it is of a relatively late date and the loss of its roof compromises its interest; there are other, more complete, examples listed in the District.