Cornamucklagh House,

The Department's description

Exterior description and setting

Detached three-bay one-and-a-half-storey house, built c.1900, located to the north side of Blackhill Road. Rectangular-on-plan with single-storey gabled porch to west and attached single-storey outbuilding to north.

Roof is pitched artificial slates with blue/black clay ridges over timber eaves; timber bargeboards; red brick chimneys; natural slate to north extension; corrugated metal with terracotta ridges to porch. Walls are smooth rendered. Windows are square-headed timber-framed 2/2 sliding sashes with concrete sills; metal casements to west.

Principal elevation faces east and consists of central replacement timber glazed door with sidelights flanked at left by single window and at right by two windows; three dormers at first floor.

South elevation is blank.

West elevation is abutted at right by porch; exposed section at left contains two windows at ground floor and single window at first floor right. Porch contains single window; door opening to north elevation.

North elevation is abutted by outbuilding; exposed section at first floor contains two windows. Outbuilding is lime-rendered brickwork and contains vertically-sheeted door and window opening to west elevation.

Setting

The house is set in a mature site with wrought-iron gates giving access to an enclosed garden to east. Single-bay single-storey rubble outbuilding to north. Multi-bay two-storey rubble stable block to north-east has timber-framed openings at each floor with brick dressings and carriage-arches; openings are timber sheeted and carriage arch to east outbuilding is accessed by a pair of wrought-iron gates. Further single-storey-rubble outbuilding to east with evidence of lime-render. There is a cast-iron cow-tail handled water pump to east.

Roof Natural slate
Walling Roughcast
Windows Timber
Rainwater goods Cast-iron

Historical information

There have been buildings on the site from at least the first edition of the OS map in 1833, however the current house does not appear until the third edition of 1905-6. The outbuilding to the north of the house is present on the first edition of 1833.

The Townland Valuation records a ‘house and offices’, valued at £7.7s, and occupied by James Johnston. Griffith’s Valuation values the property at £6.10s.6d and James Johnston is the occupier in fee. Revisions record a ‘house, offices and land’ the house and offices being valued at £7. In 1905 David Andrews becomes the occupier and leases the house from Samuel Johnston. In 1906 he becomes the occupier in fee. However, the construction of a new house is not reflected in the original sources at this time.

At an unrecorded date post 1933 the property value is revised to £9.10s including outbuildings. At this time the house comprises, two rooms, two small rooms, a kitchen, scullery and p[orch?] on the ground floor and three bedrooms and two small bedrooms on the first floor. David Andrews is the occupier in fee and dimensions are given for the house, scullery and porch. Field evidence suggests that the house is of late-nineteenth / early twentieth-century construction, with mid-twentieth-century alterations.

References:

Primary Sources

1. PRONI OS/6/6/50/1-4 - Ordnance Survey Maps (1833, 1853, 1905-6, 1938)
2. PRONI VAL/1/A/6/50 - Townland Valuation Map (1820-1840)
3. PRONI VAL/1/B/629 - Townland Valuation (1820-1840)
4. PRONI VAL/2/A/6/50 – Griffith’s Valuation Map (1858)
5. PRONI VAL/2/B/6/31A - Griffith’s Valuation (1858)
6. PRONI VAL/12/B/41/43A-F - Valuation Revisions (1860-1923)
7. PRONI VAL/3D/7/8KK/1 – Valuers’ RV Binder (1933-57)

Criteria for listing: architectural interest

Not listed

Criteria for listing: historic interest

Not listed

Evaluation

A detached three-bay one-and-a-half-storey house, built c.1900, located to the north side of Blackhill Road. This simple dormered house retains some original features including internal timberwork and windows and despite its poor state of repair retains attractive proportions and modest detailing. However, it is of a relatively late date and not among the best examples of the type.