Costillion,

The Department's description

Exterior description and setting

Detached two-bay two-storey house, built c.1880, located to the south of Omagh Road. Rectangular-on-plan with attached single-storey outbuilding to south.

Roof is pitched natural slate with blue/black clay ridge tiles; red brick corbelled chimneys. Walls are roughcast rendered over smooth plinth. Windows are timber-framed 6/6 sliding sash with exposed sash boxes to east and timber casements to west elevation; all have painted sandstone sills.

Principal elevation faces east; left bay consists of entrance opening containing replacement timber-panelled door with transom light surmounted by single window at first floor flanked at left by single window at each floor; right bay contains single window at each floor.

South gable is blank; attached outbuilding contains vertically-sheeted timber door; west elevation contains two metal casement windows.

West elevation contains, at left, single window at each floor flanked to right by central replacement timber entrance door surmounted by window at first floor; right bay contains window at each floor.

North gable is blank.

Setting

House is set within farmyard with range of outbuildings to east; each have pitched natural slate roof and lime-rendered (partially fallen away) rubble walling with fieldstone quoins; all openings are timber framed and doors are vertically-sheeted timber. To south, one-and-half-storey outbuilding with sandstone steps at south providing access to loft and, at left, attached single-storey store (bearing datestone to east elevation). To east, single-storey outbuilding with large openings supported by timber lintels and, at left, remains of single-storey byre. To north, two-storey threshing barn and, at right, single-storey outbuilding. To north-west, single-storey byre (replacement timber door). Site accessed from lane at north; original entrance to north-west through pair of wrought-iron gates supported on cast-iron columns.

Roof Natural slate
Walling Roughcast
Windows timber
RWG Cast-iron

Historical information

There is a group of buildings shown on the site from the first edition OS map of 1833. However, the present house appears to be first shown on the third edition of 1906 together with additional outbuildings, one of which bears the date 1883. From the second edition of 1854 the group is captioned ‘Costillion’.

The buildings are difficult to identify in the Townland Valuation but are likely to be those listing Robert Nethery as the occupier and valued at £2.16s.8d. Dimensions are given. In Griffith’s Valuation (1856-64) the occupier is listed as Andrew Nethery who leases the house from the Reverend James Gordon and Robert Gordon. It is valued at £2.15s. In 1873 the value of the buildings is raised to £4, probably as a result of the building of a new house on the plot. In 1907 Andrew Nethery becomes the owner in fee and there are subsequently several changes in occupier.

References:

Primary Sources

1. PRONI OS/6/6/34/1 – First Edition OS Map (1833)
2. PRONI OS/6/6/34/2 – Second Edition OS Map (1854)
3. PRONI OS/6/6/34/3 – Third Edition OS Map (1906)
4. PRONI OS/6/6/34/4 – Fourth Edition OS Map (1936-8)
5. PRONI VAL/1/A/6/34 – Townland Valuation Map
6. PRONI VAL/1/B/634 – Townland Valuation (1828-40)
7. PRONI VAL/2/A/6/34 – Griffiths’ Valuation Map
8. PRONI VAL/2/B/6/36 – Griffith’s Valuation (1856-64)
9. PRONI VAL/12/B/41/18A-F – Annual Revision Records (1860-1929)

Criteria for listing: architectural interest

Not listed

Criteria for listing: historic interest

Not listed

Evaluation

A detached two-bay two-storey house, built c.1880, located to the south of Omagh Road. The house was 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, although some details, for example windows to west elevation have been replaced. However, it is of a late date and not one of the best examples of the type.o