House

The Department's description

Exterior description and setting

Detached three-bay two-storey former direct-entry vernacular dwelling (originally two-bay), built c.1820, located to the west side of Broghan Road. Direct-entry rectangular plan with later addition single-storey gabled porch to north, built c.1860. West bay added c.1860.

Roof is pitched natural slate with blue/black clay ridge tiles (replacement slate to west bay); raised stone verges; corbelled roughcast chimneys. Walls are roughcast lime rendered (partially fallen away) with brick corbelled eaves; rubble to gabled porch. Windows are timber framed 6/6 sliding sash with exposed sash boxes and 3/6 at first floor; all have sandstone sills.

Principal elevation faces south and contains a single window at each floor to each bay; central bay contains entrance at right of windows consisting of door opening surmounted by transom light (door missing).

West gable contains single window opening at first floor left; ground floor has exposed rubble section to centre indicating there was once an attached lean-to outbuilding.

North elevation; left bay contains single window opening at each floor; at ground floor, wrought-iron railing within opening (window missing); central bay is abutted at left by porch; single window at right; right bay contains window opening at ground floor (divided by internal walling) surmounted by single window at first floor. Porch contains small window; vertically sheeted timber entrance door to east elevation.

East gable contains single 2/2 sliding sash window (divided horizontally) at ground floor left.

Setting

The house is set to the edge of modern farmyard in remote rural
setting; accessed from road at east by lane through modern steel gate; bounded to south by hedging.

Roof Natural slate
Walling Roughcast
Windows Timber
RWG Cast-iron

Historical information

The building is shown on the first edition OS map of 1833 without the porch or projection on the main elevation. No other buildings are recorded nearby at this stage. Marked to the south of the house is a ‘well’. By the 1854 map the building opposite the main elevation is shown as is the long rectangular outbuilding to the west, orientated North West to South East. The 1905 OS map is the first to show the porch on the main house and the outbuilding to the west, i.e. located to the side of the entrance lane.

The Townland Valuation records William Rodgers as the occupier of a ‘house, which is valued at £4.7s. Griffith’s Valuation of 1858 lists the same occupier, the valuation is increased slightly to £4.10s (perhaps corresponding to the addition of the porch). Valuation Revisions record the addition of a house to the site in 1867, occupied by David Rodgers and leased from the Rev. Robert Hamilton. The occupier of the main house is revised to Mary Rodgers in 1880, and added to the site in 1881 is a ‘Cottier’s house’ valued at £0.10s, which is noted to have ‘...no garden attached...’

This direct-entry dwelling is distinctly vernacular in style and material, built c.1820,and later extended to the west with third bay, probably c.1860, at which time, a gabled porch appears to have been added to the north elevation to allow rear access. West bay has since been subdivided (date unknown).

References:

Primary Sources

1.PRONI OS/6/6/25/1 –First Edition OS Map (1833)
2.PRONI OS/6/6/25/2 –Second Edition OS Map (1854)
3.PRONI OS/6/6/25/3 –Third Edition OS Map (1905)
4.PRONI VAL/1/B/637A –Townland Valuation (1820-1840)
5.PRONI VAL/2/B/6/47C –Griffith’s Valuation (1858)
6.PRONI VAL/12/B/41/27A-F –Valuation Revisions (1860-1923)

Criteria for listing: architectural interest

Not listed

Criteria for listing: historic interest

Not listed

Evaluation

Detached three-bay two-storey former direct-entry vernacular dwelling (originally two-bay), built c.1820. The building, now in poor repair, retains many features externally and internally; although more recent alterations have resulted in some loss of character. The building remains an example of how vernacular architecture in the area was adapted to the changing needs of rural life. However, insufficient fabric survives to merit listing and there are other, better examples listed.