112 Newtownsaville Road

The Department's description

Exterior description and setting

Detached three-bay single-storey vernacular dwelling, built c.1820, located to east side of Newtownsaville Road. Rectangular-on-plan with small wind-break porch to north; attached single-storey outbuildings to east and west.

Roof is pitched corrugated metal with raised stone verges; smooth rendered chimneys. Walls are of rubble construction and lime-rendered. Windows are timber-framed 1/1 sliding sashes with painted masonry sills.

Principal elevation faces north; left bay contains single window; central bay contains window flanked at right by windbreak porch containing vertically-sheeted timber entrance door; right bay contains two windows.

East gable is blank; abutted by stable containing vertically-sheeted timber half-door and small window opening to north; stone steps provide access to loft at east; south elevation contains single casement window.

South elevation contains four timber casement windows.

West gable is abutted by two-bay outbuilding; west gable contains door opening with vertically-sheeted timber sliding door surmounted by small opening to attic; north elevation contains single vertically-sheeted door; south elevation contains two casement windows at left and windbreak porch flanked by single window to right; rubble boundary wall between outbuilding and house at south.

Setting

Set in farmyard; house accessed at north through pair of iron gates supported on smooth rendered pillars in rendered walling; site bounded to north by rubble walling. Two attached gabled farm buildings to east (detailed as house); further outbuilding to north and rubble outbuilding with brick dressings to south-west to edge of modern yard. Cast-iron water pump with cow-tail handle at principal entrance.

Roof Corrugated metal
Walling Lime-rendered rubble stone
Windows timber-framed
RWG Cast-iron

Historical information

The house is shown on the first edition OS map of 1833.

The property is not included in the Townland Valuation. The Griffith’s Valuation map shows a dividing line between buildings on the plot, including the current house, indicating separate occupiers/owners. One group of buildings to the north is recorded as a ‘house, offices and land’, occupied by Alexander Clements and leased from Francis Gervais, whilst further buildings are part of a property listed as a ‘house, offices and land’, which is occupied by John Clements. The property is also valued at £1.5s.

The occupier of the buildings to the north is revised to James Clements in 1869. An extra ‘office’ is added in 1872 to the property occupied by John Clements.

References:

Primary Sources

1. PRONI OS/6/6/51/1-3 - Ordnance Survey Maps (1833, 1852, 1906)
2. PRONI VAL/1/A/6/51 - Townland Valuation Map (1820-1840)
3. PRONI VAL/2/A/6/51 – Griffith’s Valuation Map (1858)
4. PRONI VAL/2/B/6/2B - Griffith’s Valuation (1858)
5. PRONI VAL/12/B/36/8A-F - Valuation Revisions (1860-1923)

Criteria for listing: architectural interest

A. Style
B. Proportion
C. Ornamentation
D. Plan Form

Criteria for listing: historic interest

X. Local Interest

Evaluation

An attached three-bay single-storey vernacular dwelling, built c.1820, located to east side of Newtownsaville Road. The building is distinctly vernacular in style with simple construction and materials, built in stone with corrugated pitched roof, probably thatched originally. The house retains many original features and is well maintained, appearing unchanged from its original form and layout, excepting historic alterations, such as raising of the eaves and increased window size. The dwelling does not appear to follow the traditional direct- or lobby-entry plan form usual to such buildings, instead entry is to a central bay with hearth to gable in outer bay. The attached outbuilding to the west is also consistent in style and composition with a vernacular dwelling, including windbreak porch, although having opposite orientation and now used as an outbuilding; this suggests it may have been a dwelling at some time during its life.

General comments

New listing.