Lisahoppin House,

The Department's description

Exterior description and setting

Detached three-bay two-storey rendered house, built c.1900. Rectangular on plan facing south, located on the east side of Leap Lane, with single-bay two-storey central projecting entrance bay and a two-storey L-plan range of outbuildings attached to rear.

Hipped natural slate roof, lead rolled ridges and pair of symmetrically-placed tall brick chimneystacks with corbels (rebuilt). Replacement uPVC guttering to moulded rendered eaves course. Painted ruled-and-lined cement rendered walling with rusticated quoins and projecting plinth course. Square-headed window openings to ground floor, segmental-headed to first floor, all having moulded architrave surrounds, painted masonry sills and single-pane timber sash windows.

Symmetrical three-bay south front elevation with full-height entrance bay having rusticated quoins and a square-headed door opening to both cheeks with moulded architrave surrounds and original raised-and-fielded timber panelled doors with Art Nouveau brass furniture opening onto front bitmac area.

Two-bay two-storey west side elevation having two window openings to each floor (as per above), that to the left ground floor has been reduced in size to form a pair of diminutive single-pane timber sash windows with central mullion. Stepped slightly back is the west elevation of the outbuilding having a square-headed door opening with double-leaf timber glazed doors.

Rear elevation is abutted by outbuilding to the right hand side with a single-storey glazed rear entrance porch, built c.2000, having a shallow hipped roof. A round-headed window opening to the stair hall contains a single-pane timber sash window with coloured margin lights, with a further small window opening to the first floor having replacement timber casement window.

Two-bay two-storey east side elevation has two windows per floor.

Setting

Bitmac front drive passes the east side elevation to a concrete paved rear yard, enclosed to the west by two-storey and double-height rendered outbuildings with pitched natural slate roofs, corrugated iron to that abutting rear of house. To the east the yard is enclosed by a series of large industrial steel-framed buildings. Bitmac drive opens onto Leap Lane to the southwest.

Roof Natural slate
Walling render
Windows Timber
Rainwater goods uPVC

Historical information

There are buildings present on the site from the first edition of 1833. However the present house first appears on the third edition of 1906 together with a large extension to the rear which may incorporate earlier buildings.

Griffith’s Valuation lists a ‘house, offices and land’ with buildings valued at £5.15s. Dimensions are given for a house and five offices and the owner in fee is Robert Harvey. In 1872 the occupier becomes William James Harvey and in 1877 the value of the property is revised to £16.5s, indicating a probable rebuild. In 1914 the occupier becomes George Harvey.

Valuers’ notes of 1934 record the house as comprising a D[ining room?], D[rawing room?], bedroom, kitchen, scullery and WC downstairs and four bedrooms and a boxroom on the first floor. There are ‘no bathrooms’. A plan and dimensions are given. The valuer remarks, “House is very similar to…Lisboy [HB11/07/038] and of same quality and in very good repair. The approach is rather a drawback but not to any serious extent. House is situated on high ground and the water supply for ordinary purposes is very bad, only sufficient being available for domestic use at irregular periods according to season. Appellant states he bored a well over 100 ft deep and failed to get a supply, consequently he could not install a bath in his house except by bringing a supply from a distance at prohibitive [expense]. The WC is flushed from a rainwater tank in roof.”

References:

Primary Sources

1. PRONI OS/6/6/35/1 – First Edition OS Map (1833)
2. PRONI OS/6/6/35/2 – Second Edition OS Map (1854)
3. PRONI OS/6/6/35/3 – Third Edition OS Map (1906)
4. PRONI OS/6/6/35/4 – Fourth Edition OS Map (1935-7)
5. PRONI VAL/2/A/6/43 – Griffiths’ Valuation Map
6. PRONI VAL/2/B/6/28 – Griffith’s Valuation (1856-64)
7. PRONI VAL/12/B/41/6A-F – Annual Revision Records (1860-1929)
8. PRONI VAL/3/D/7/8CC/3 – Valuers’ RV Binder (1933-57)

Criteria for listing: architectural interest

Not listed

Criteria for listing: historic interest

Not listed

Evaluation

Three-bay two-storey rendered house on the east side of Leap Lane. A symmetrical late nineteenth-century house with a restrained design, retaining most original fabric to the exterior. With somewhat awkward proportions, it is of a relatively late date and common style and not one of the best examples of the type.