Outbuildings of 52 Cashty Road,

The Department's description

Exterior description and setting

Two detached stone outbuildings, located on the south of Cashty Road, northwest of house.

Outbuilding 1

The main building is a two-storey barn, built c.1830. Rectangular on plan, facing south.

Pitched natural slate roofs, blue/black angled ridge tiles, half-round cast-iron gutters. Walling is squared and tooled basalt. Windows are square-headed painted timber 2/1 sashes, no sills, dressed sandstone lintels. Doors are square-headed painted timber vertically sheeted.

Principal (south) elevation is three openings wide with a single door at each end of ground floor and a single door to first floor centre (with sandstone lintel), a single window to each end of first floor. West gable is blank. Rear (north elevation) is blank. East gable has square-headed entrance double-height opening with sliding metal door.

Outbuilding 2

The second outbuilding is three-bay single-storey, built c.1830. Rectangular on plan, facing east. Steeply pitched natural slate roof, blue/black angled ridge tiles, no rainwater goods. Walling is random rubble basalt with dressed quoins. Windows are square-headed painted timber six-light casements, stone lintels.

Principal (east) elevation has a square-headed painted timber vertically sheeted half-door with stone lintel to centre flanked to either side by a single window. South gable has a single window above eaves level. Rear (west) elevation is blank. North gable is detailed as south gable; abutted below eave-level by later lean-to shed (of no interest).

Setting

The outbuildings are situated in a nineteenth-century farmyard complex, northwest of a T-plan rendered house (of no interest) and east and south of a number of modern outbuildings (of no interest).

Outbuilding 1:
Roof: natural slate
Walling: stone
Windows: timber
RWG: none

Outbuilding 2:
Roof: natural slate
Walling: stone
Windows: timber
RWG: none

Historical information

These two outbuildings appear on all four editions of the OS Map. Additional outbuildings appear on the third edition, as does the present T-plan house and L-plan outbuilding on the property.

The buildings are not listed in the Townland Valuation (1828-40), however they are
recorded in Griffiths Valuations (1858) as a “house, offices and land,” occupied by Henry Rogers, leased from James Hamilton and valued at £1 5s. There is a minor house on the property valued at 10 s, occupied by John Keane and others and leased from Henry Rogers; however, it disappears from the Valuation Revisions in 1863.

The Valuation Revisions from 1860 record the property with the Rev. Robert Hamilton as the immediate lessor and Henry Rogers as occupant, revised in 1863 to William McClintock, valued at £1 5s., revised at an unknown date (c.1862) to £1 10s. Eliza McClintock becomes the occupier in 1895 and Adaline Smith occupier in fee in 1899. No change in value is recorded.

The slight valuation increase around 1862 may indicate a remodelling of the two outbuildings present on the 1830s first edition of the OS Map. The high-quality masonry craftsmanship of the two-storey outbuilding (to north) suggests that it could have been rebuilt around 1862; while the single-storey outbuilding (to southwest) may be the structure that appeared on the first edition.

References:

Primary Sources

1. PRONI OS/6/6/25/1 – First Edition Ordnance Survey Map (1833)
2. PRONI OS/6/6/25/2 – Second Edition Ordnance Survey Map (1854)
3. PRONI OS/6/6/25/3 – Third Edition Ordnance Survey Map (1905)
4. PRONI OS/6/6/25/4 – Fourth Edition Ordnance Survey Map (1936-7)
5. PRONI VAL/1/B/637A-F – Townland Valuation (1828-40)
6. PRONI VAL/1/A/6/25 – Townland Valuation Map
7. PRONI VAL/2/A/6/25C – Griffiths Valuation Map (1858)
8. PRONI VAL/2/B/6/47C – Griffiths Valuation (1856-64)
9. PRONI VAL/12/B/41/27A-F – Annual Revision records (1860-1929)

Criteria for listing: architectural interest

Not listed

Criteria for listing: historic interest

Not listed

Evaluation

Two detached stone early- to mid-nineteenth-century outbuildings. Both outbuildings are well proportioned, have simple plan forms, and display good masonry. The structures are located in a nineteenth-century farm complex setting and have some local interest. However, the main house is not of listworthy status and the outbuildings on their own are of a common type and not of special architectural or historic interest.