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The Department's description

Exterior description and setting

Detached three-bay single-storey direct-entry vernacular dwelling, built c.1840, located to west of road to the south side of Gillygooly Road. Direct-entry rectangular plan with small wind-break porch to east and lean-to extension at west, added c.1920; attached lean-to extension to north.

Roof is pitched corrugated metal; rubble chimneys with sandstone coping (partially replaced with concrete); porch has natural slate roof. Walls are of rubble construction and lime-rendered (largely fallen away). Windows are replacement timber casements; concrete sills.

Principal elevation faces east; left bay contains single window; central bay contains original timber framed 2/2 sliding sash window with exposed sash box flanked at right by windbreak porch containing original vertically-sheeted timber entrance door; right bay contains single window.

South gable is blank.

West elevation is abutted at centre by lean-to containing two windows; exposed section at left contains single window; exposed section at right contains pair of windows.

North gable is blank; abutted by lean-to containing square-headed opening to east (door missing) accessed by four stone steps.

Setting

Set on elevated site with access via lane at east; remains of rubble walling to south (earlier); site bounded to other sides by hedging and wire fencing. Recent gabled roughcast garage directly to north.

Roof metal
Walling Lime-rendered
Windows timber
RWG N/A

Historical information

A building on the site is first shown on the second edition OS map of 1854.

Griffith’s Valuation of 1858 records a ‘house, offices and land’, valued at £1. The occupier is William Gibson and the property is leased from Sir James M Strange.
Valuation Revisions record a change in occupier to Robert Gibson in 1888, but no changes of significance are noted.

The building is distinctly vernacular in style with simple construction and materials, built in stone with corrugated pitched roof, probably thatched originally. The dwelling appears to date from the mid-nineteenth-century with lean-to extension probably added c.1920 as it is not apparent until the fourth edition of 1936-7.

References:

Primary Sources

1. PRONI OS/6/6/34/1-4 - Ordnance Survey Maps (1833, 1854, 1905-6, 1936-7)
2. PRONI VAL/2/A/6/34 – Griffith’s Valuation Map (1858)
3. PRONI VAL/2/B/6/36 - Griffith’s Valuation (1858)
4. PRONI VAL/12/B/41/34A-F - Valuation Revisions (1860-1924)

Criteria for listing: architectural interest

Not listed

Criteria for listing: historic interest

Not listed

Evaluation

Detached three-bay single-storey direct-entry vernacular dwelling, built c.1840. The building retains original features such as lime-plaster and stonework and original masonry fire surround. Although of some interest as a representative of the rural vernacular, it is not among the best examples of a traditional rural dwelling. There are other, better, examples listed.