House

The Department's description

Exterior description and setting

Detached three-bay two-storey house, built c.1900, located to the north of Botera Upper Road. Rectangular-on-plan with single-storey wind-break porch to east; single-storey gabled extension to west, added c.1920.

Roof is pitched natural slate (removed) over timber rafters and purlins; smooth rendered corbelled chimneys. Walls are ruled-and-lined rendered (partially fallen away) over rubble construction; lime-rendered to east. Windows are timber-framed 6/6 sliding sash to principal elevation; 1/1 sliding sash elsewhere (in poor repair); sandstone sills.

Principal elevation faces east and consists of central wind-break porch (door missing) flanked at each side by single window; three windows at first floor.

South gable is blank; abutted at ground floor by concrete block lean-to shelter.

West elevation is abutted at ground floor centre by gabled extension; exposed section at ground floor left contains door and window opening; ground floor right contains single window; two windows at first floor. Extension contains single window to west; door opening to north.

North gable is blank.

Setting

Set in farmyard partially bounded to north and east by rubble boundary walling. Two-storey rubble outbuilding at north (partially collapsed); pitched roof with exposed timbers (slates removed); timber framed openings to each floor; abutted at west by single-storey rubble lean-to with corrugated metal roof. Further remains of single-storey stable block west, largely ruined.

Roof N/A
Walling rendered
Windows timber
RWG N/A

Historical information

The house dates from c.1900 with an adjacent outbuilding of early nineteenth century appearance..

It first appears on the OS map dating from 1906. However, one of the buildings that appears on the same plot on the first edition of the OS map (1833) appears to have survived as an outbuilding to the north of the main house. An extension to the rear of the house appears on the fourth edition of 1936-8.

Griffith’s Valuation records a previous house on the plot as occupied by Michael Quinn and valued at 5s. Revisions note that Alex McKinley is the occupier and that he leases the house from Charles S Buchanan. In 1881 the owner becomes John Smith and in 1892 the value of the plot is reduced to 12s. In 1912 the value is raised to £4 indicating the construction of a new house in the preceding years.

References:

Primary Sources

1. PRONI OS/6/6/34/1 – First Edition OS Map (1833)
2. PRONI OS/6/6/34/2 – Second Edition OS Map (1854)
3. PRONI OS/6/6/34/3 – Third Edition OS Map (1906)
4. PRONI OS/6/6/34/4 – Fourth Edition OS Map (1936-8)
5. PRONI VAL/1/A/6/34 – Townland Valuation Map
6. PRONI VAL/1/B/630A-B – Townland Valuation (1828-40)
7. PRONI VAL/2/A/6/34 – Griffiths’ Valuation Map
8. PRONI VAL/2/B/6/32B – Griffith’s Valuation (1856-64)
9. PRONI VAL/12/B/41/10A-F – Annual Revision Records (1860-1929)

Criteria for listing: architectural interest

Not listed

Criteria for listing: historic interest

Not listed

Evaluation

A detached three-bay two-storey house, built c.1900. The house was originally a direct-entry dwelling with stair-hall partition added at a later date. It remains largely unchanged in form and layout and the main elements of the dwelling are still evident, such as window frames, stonework and hearth. Along with the outbuildings on the site, which pre-date the house itself, these remain a group of some interest locally. However, it is of a common type and late date and not one of the best examples of a traditional rural dwelling; its interest has been compromised further by extensive loss of fabric.