106 Dromore Road,

The Department's description

Exterior description and setting

Detached three-bay single-storey house, built c.1860, located to the west side of Legatiggle Road, Fintona. Rectangular-on-plan facing east with central single-storey entrance porch off-centre at right; single-storey lean-to extension at rear; single-storey bay abutting north gable built c.1830.

Roof is pitched metal sheeted; two smooth rendered corbelled chimneystacks; u-profile cast-iron rainwater goods. Walls are ruled-and-lined rendered with smooth rendered with projecting stone plinth. Windows are 2/2 timber sliding sashes with smooth rendered banding and projecting stone cills; metal casements to west elevation.

Principal elevation faces east; abutted off-centre at right by single-storey entrance porch with flat masonry roof; flanked by single window at each side. Entrance porch east elevation contains square-headed vertically sheeted timber door with sidelights; left and right cheeks are blank.

Left (south) gable is blank.

Rear (west) elevation is abutted at centre by single-storey lean-to extension containing entrance porch; flanked by single window at each side. Extension west elevation contains replacement timber panelled door with sidelights; left cheek is blank; right cheek contains single pane timber casement window.

Right (north) gable is abutted by single-storey rectangular-on-plan bay; exposed sections are blank; east and west and north elevations contain single window.

Setting

The house is accessed by lane from east and is situated in a rural farmyard with outbuildings at west and south. Outbuildings are traditionally constructed with random rubble walling and metal sheeted roofs. There is a cast-iron cowtail pump located to the rear of the house.

Roof Metal sheeted
Walling Ruled-and-lined render
Windows timber
RWG cast-iron

Historical information

A house is shown on the first edition OS map of 1833, which appears to correspond to the northern half of the present building. The southern half, including the porch and return appears on the third edition map of 1905-6.

Griffith’s Valuation of 1858 divides the plot into two, both listed as a ‘house, offices and land’, valued at £0.10s, and occupied by James Jameson and Crayton Byrne. This indicates that there was another dwelling on the plot at the time. The properties are leased from James MacFarland. Valuation Revisions show several changes in occupier and a change in lessor to W Johnston and John Eccles in 1877. William J Ewing becomes the owner and lessor of the current house in 1887, when the two properties appear to become amalgamated into one, indicating either that the second dwelling was demolished or that it became an outbuilding of the present house.

Field evidence suggests that the dwelling was built in the mid-nineteenth-century as an extension to an existing single-bay dwelling (the north bay), indicated by differing building lines and verge materials (that to south appears to be concrete); the original bay may have been thatched.

In 1933 Harpur Ewing is the owner in fee and the property value is revised to £1.15. The house, at this time, comprises a kitchen and two rooms and is constructed of rubble masonry and corrugated iron. The dimensions are 45x17x11 feet.

References:

Primary Sources

1. PRONI OS/6/6/50/1-4 Ordnance Survey Maps (1833, 1853, 1905-6, 1938)
2. PRONI VAL/2/A/6/50 – Griffith’s Valuation (1858)
3. PRONI VAL/2/B/6/3B Griffith’s Valuation (1858)
4. PRONI VAL/12/B/41/23A-F Valuation Revisions (1860-1929)
5. PRONI VAL/3/D/7/8Q/4 – Valuers RV Binder (1933-57)

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

Detached three-bay single-storey house, built c.1860, located to the west side of Legatiggle Road, Fintona. The house is traditional in style and proportion, the single-storey bay at north built c.1830 may have originally been thatched. It has an intact vernacular plan form and is well-sited. Detailing also remains largely intact with respect to the windows and the interior detailing is well preserved.

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