19 Segully Road

The Department's description

Exterior description and setting

Detached two-bay single-storey (raised to one-and-a-half-storey at east) direct-entry vernacular dwelling, built c.1830, located to the west side of Segully Road (block A) within a group of related buildings. Direct-entry rectangular plan with wind-break porch to north; east bay raised c.1880.

Roof is pitched corrugated metal, rubble chimney with sandstone coping to west; pitched natural slate with ashlar sandstone chimney to east bay. Walls are whitened lime render over rubble construction. Windows are replacement timber framed casements; painted sandstone sills.

Principal elevation faces south and consists of single-storey left bay containing single window at centre; wind-break porch at right containing replacement timber-panelled door with glazed top panels; plasterwork shows evidence of slightly raised eaves level; raised right bay has single window at each floor.

West gable is blank.

North elevation contains two windows at ground floor surmounted by single original 2/2 sliding sash window at first floor to raised left bay; single-storey right bay contains small original 2/2 sliding sash window at left.

East gable is blank; painted ashlar sandstone quoins.

Setting

Set within yard with range of outbuildings on site; all of rubble construction with pitched corrugated metal roofs. One-and-a-half storey outbuilding directly to north-west (block D): vertically-sheeted timber doors; external stone steps to north provide access to loading door at first floor. Two-storey outbuilding to west (block C) abutted at north by single-storey byre (raised eaves level) and at west by lean-to; vertically-sheeted timber doors and metal casement windows; external stone steps to south provide access to loading door at first floor; interior retains partial stone flooring. Similarly detailed two-storey outbuilding to north-east (block E) and single-storey byre to south (block F).

To west, pair of partially derelict two-bay single-storey direct-entry vernacular dwellings (block B), each with wind-break porch containing vertically sheeted timber door to west; attached byre to south. Roofs are pitched corrugated metal with rubble chimneys. Walls are whitened lime-render. Windows are timber framed sliding sash with sandstone sills (partially missing).

Roof Corrugated metal; natural slate to raised bay
Walling Whitened lime-rendered
Windows Timber framed casements
RWG Cast-iron half-round gutters and round downpipes

Historical information

A group of buildings is present on the site from the first edition of 1833. In particular, buildings A and B appear to be present, although B is, at the time, two separate structures. On the second edition (1854) buildings C and F are present and building B is a single structure. On the third (1939-51), buildings D, and E appear and B is much more extensive to the north than previously or since.

The house (A) conforms to vernacular tradition and is likely to date from the early nineteenth-century, indicated by simple construction and materials. The building was originally thatched. Evidently, the right bay was raised at a later date to one-and-a-half storey, providing additional accommodation at first floor, probably during the later nineteenth-century, c.1880, indicated by sandstone chimney and general evolutionary traits of the typology. External plasterwork shows evidence of raising the eaves level of the single-storey bay, probably at the same date. The byre to the south of the house (block F) and vernacular dwellings (block B) stylistically appear to date from roughly the same period as the house, although these too were extended, perhaps to include attached byre during the mid-nineteenth century. Remaining outbuildings were constructed in the latter half of the nineteenth-century.

The buildings are not identifiable with any certainty in the Townland Valuation. However they appear in Griffith’s Valuation as two separate plots both leased from the Earl of Castlestuart. Building A is valued at £1.5s and building B at £1.15s. In the Annual Revisions the plot has one occupier, John Turner, and the buildings have a single valuation of £1.15s. The plot continues to be occupied by the Turner family throughout the period of revisions (1860-1929) and in 1917 they become the owners in fee.

References:

Primary Sources

1.PRONI OS/6/6/33/1 – First Edition Ordnance Survey Map (1833)
2.PRONI OS/6/6/33/2 – Second Edition Ordnance Survey Map (1854)
3.PRONI OS/6/6/33/3 – Third Edition Ordnance Survey Map (1905)
4.PRONI OS/6/6/33/4 – Fourth Edition Ordnance Survey Map (1939-51)
5.PRONI VAL/1/A/6/33 – Townland Valuation Map (1828-40)
6.PRONI VAL/1/B/634 – Townland Valuation (1828-40)
7.PRONI VAL/2/A/6/33B – Griffith’s Valuation Map (1856-64)
8.PRONI VAL/2/B/6/36 – Griffith’s Valuation (1856-64)
9.PRONI VAL/12/D/6/33C – Annual Revisions Valuation Map
10.PRONI VAL/12/B/41/18A-F – Annual Revisions (1860-1929)

Secondary Sources

1.Kennedy, Michael G. “On the Banks of the Mourne: A History of Strabane.” Strabane, Co. Tyrone: Strabane Historical Society, 1996.

Criteria for listing: architectural interest

A. Style
B. Proportion
C. Ornamentation
J. Setting

Criteria for listing: historic interest

X. Local Interest

Evaluation

A detached two-bay single-storey (raised to one-and-a-half-storey at east) direct-entry vernacular dwelling, built c.1830, located to the west side of Segully Road. Although the building has been somewhat modernised, including replacement windows and doors, the original form is still intact and the development of the building can be seen clearly. The house, along with vernacular dwellings on the site which remain largely intact despite some disrepair, is a substantial example of vernacular architecture in Tyrone, enhanced by a range of outbuildings of similar style and detailing. The survival of the group is of note.