91 Tattysallagh Road

The Department's description

Exterior description and setting

Detached three-bay two-storey house, built c.1850, located to the north of Tattysallagh Road. Rectangular-on-plan.

Roof is pitched natural slate with terracotta ridge tiles; sandstone chimneys. Walls are roughcast with painted ashlar sandstone quoins over painted plinth. Windows are timber framed 6/6 sliding sash in smooth reveals (diminished at first floor) to principal elevation; 2/2 sliding sash elsewhere; painted sandstone sills.

Principal elevation faces east and consists of central entrance containing replacement timber-panelled door surmounted by transom light flanked at each side by single window; three windows at first floor.

South elevation contains single window at first floor right.

West elevation contains, at left, two windows at ground floor surmounted by timber casement window at first floor; central bay contains replacement timber-panelled entrance door at ground floor; single window at first floor; at right, single window at each floor.

North elevation is blank; abutted at ground floor by timber framed shelter.

Setting

Set within private grounds bounded to road at south by rubble boundary wall; access through pair of concrete block piers with sandstone coping. Two-storey rubble outbuilding at north; pitched corrugated metal roof; timber framed sliding sash windows; vertically-sheeted timber doors; exterior stair to north provides access to loading door at first floor. Further single-storey stable block at north-east, detailed similarly.

Roof Natural slate
Walling Roughcast
Windows timber
RWG Cast-iron

Historical information

The house first appears on the second edition OS map of 1853 together with two outbuildings.

It is listed in Griffith’s Valuation as a house, offices and land, leased by Owen Donnelly from the Earl of Castlestuart and is valued at £1.15s for the buildings, later revised to £1.10s. Revisions see the house passing to Francis McLoughlin in 1892 when the value is raised to £2.10s. This may indicate a rebuilding or remodelling of the property, although it is not inconsistent in style and detail with a dwelling of c.1850. In 1918 the property becomes held in fee by the occupier.

The building is dated internally with stone above hearth inscribed ‘AD 1891’ but detailing both internally and externally appears to indicate an earlier date, with styling suggesting mid-nineteenth century construction, probably c.1850.

References:

Primary Sources

1. PRONI OS/6/6/42/1 – First Edition Ordnance Survey Map (1833)
2. PRONI OS/6/6/42/2 – Second Edition Ordnance Survey Map (1853)
3. PRONI OS/6/6/42/3 – Third Edition Ordnance Survey Map (1905-6)
4. PRONI VAL/2/A/6/42 – Griffith’s Valuation Map (1856-64)
5. PRONI VAL/2/B/6/36 – Griffith’s Valuation (1856-64|)
6. PRONI VAL/12/D/6/42 – Annual Revisions Map
7. PRONI VAL/12/B/41/18A-F – Annual Revisions (1860-1929)

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 detached three-bay two-storey house, built c.1850, located to the north of Tattysallagh Road. The house appears to have been built as a direct-entry dwelling consisting of two principal rooms to each floor separated by timber stair hall. The house has not suffered modern intervention and plan form remains largely intact; detailing internally, including much of the original timberwork, is retained. The building may have been remodelled during the late nineteenth-century but there is no evidence in the detailing to indicate this. The building, along with outbuildings, makes a positive contribution to the architecture of this rural area and is a good and unaltered example of the type.