56 Church Road,

The Department's description

Exterior description and setting

Detached two-bay two-storey house, dated 1830, located to the south side of Church Road, Beragh. Rectangular-on-plan facing south; central single-storey entrance porch to south and two-storey return with pitched roof to north, both built c.1900.

Roof is pitched natural slate, blue/black clay ridge tiles; two red brick corbelled gable chimneystacks; corbelled eaves course supporting original u-profile cast-iron rainwater goods. Walls are ruled-and-lined-rendered with stepped plastered quoins; windows are square-headed 2/2 vertically divided timber sliding sashes with projecting masonry cills.

Principal elevation faces south and is abutted at centre by single-storey entrance porch; exposed section contains window to each bay at each floor.

Left (west) gable is blank.

Rear (north) elevation is abutted at centre by two-storey return with hipped natural slate roof. Exposed section contains window to each floor at each bay.

Right (east) gable contains single window at left at first floor.

Two-storey north return is detailed as main house; north gable contains replacement timber casement at each floor; left cheek contains timber sheeted and glazed entrance door at left, timber casement at right, first floor is blank; right cheek is blank.

Series of outbuildings located adjacent to the house at east, west and north; single-storey corrugated metal sheeted outbuilding with pitched roof at west. Two-storey traditionally constructed outbuilding at east with natural slate pitched roof, lime rendered random rubble walling and scattered fenestration of timber sheeted doors and timber casement windows. Single-storey open cart-shed at north with corrugated metal sheeted barrel roof and lime rendered random rubble walling.

Setting

The house is accessed by lane from the north and south; now largely overgrown the south enclosed garden contains original square-plan piers adjoining each gable, each supporting original wrought-iron gates which give access to the south principal entrance. Some wrought-iron railing remains to the perimeter of the south enclosed garden.

Roof Natural Slate
Walling render
Windows timber
RWG cast-iron

Historical information

A building is shown on the first edition OS map of 1833, although the extensions to the north and south elevations do not appear until the 1936-8 edition. This has the appearance of a house that has undergone substantial remodelling c.1900 but is built around an earlier structure.

Griffith’s Valuation records a ‘house, offices and land’ occupied by Andrew Young and leased from the Rev. Lucas and Lord Belmore. The valuation is £1.15s. The Young family remain in occupation throughout the period of Valuation Revisions (1860-1929).

References:

Primary Sources

1. PRONI OS/6/6/43/1-4 - Ordnance Survey Maps (1833, 1854, 1906, 1936-8)
2. PRONI VAL/2/A/6/43 – Griffith’s Valuation Map (1858)
3. PRONI VAL/2/B/6/29 - Griffith’s Valuation (1858)
4. PRONI VAL/12/B/41/14A-F - Valuation Revisions (1860-1929)

Criteria for listing: architectural interest

Not listed

Criteria for listing: historic interest

Not listed

Evaluation

Detached two-bay two-storey house, dated 1830. Externally the house remains largely intact in terms of its massing and proportion, with largely intact plan form and internal detailing. However, the house is a common type and not one of the best examples of a developed vernacular.