Crevenagh Farm,

The Department's description

Exterior description and setting

Detached three-bay two-storey rendered house, built c.1820, facing west. Rectangular-on-plan, set within its own grounds to the west of Great Northern Road, with a single-storey lean-to wing to the south and outbuildings to the rear yard.

Hipped natural slate roof with catslide extending over a lower rear elevation, and half-round black clay ridge tiles. Pair of symmetrically-placed rendered chimneystacks with replacement metal guttering and some replacement metal and some cast-iron downpipes.
Walling is generally painted rough-cast render with render quoins to the front elevation only.
Windows are square-headed with painted stone sills and 6/6 timber sash windows (except where otherwise stated).

Symmetrical three-bay two-storey front elevation with central square-headed door opening having double-leaf timber panelled door and cast-iron rectangular overlight. To either side of the entrance is a tripartite timber sash window comprising 6/6 flanked by 2/2 timber sashes.

North elevation has a single window to the left on both floors with a further window opening to the first floor of the lower catslide projection.

The rear (east) elevation has an irregular window composition with a single 6/6 to the centre at the half-landing level, a 3/3 to the left at first floor level, a single-pane sash window with coloured margin lights to the right and a 2/2 sash to the ground floor below. Below the stair-hall window is a diminutive 4-pane timber casement window with a steel casement window to the left. Beside the right hand side window is a door opening with a vertically-sheeted timber door while a lean-to rear entrance porch is placed to the left end of the elevation with a further timber plank door and a further 6-pane timber casement window.

South side elevation has a pair of 6/6 timber sash windows to the first floor with a steel casement window to the ground floor of the rear projection. This elevation is abutted by a single-storey lean-to wing with a lean-to natural slate roof falling from a blind screen wall to the west. To its east elevation is a 9-pane timber casement window and a several timber plank doors.

Setting:-
Set on an elevated site, accessed by a long lane to the north which opens onto the newly formed Great Northern Road through tall sandstone-clad piers and curved stone-clad walls. The rear yard comprises some two-storey rubble-stone outbuildings and some corrugated-iron roofed later structures.

Roof Natural slate
Walling Rough cast render
Windows Timber sash
RWG Replacement metal/Cast-iron

Historical information

The house is late Georgian in character, stylistically suggesting a date of around 1820. The house is marked, uncaptioned, on the first edition OS map in 1833. Additional buildings appear on the second and third edition OS maps (1854 and 1906), where the house is captioned 'Creevenagh Cottage' and 'Creevenagh' respectively. The property appears in the Townland Valuation Records as the residence of Rev Samuel Cuthbertson valued at £3 18s 0d. In Griffith’s Valuation there has been a substantial rise in value to £16 0s 0d and the lessor is now the Hon & Rev A W Pomeroy. There are several changes in resident in the ensuing years but the house continues to be leased from the Pomeroy family at approximately the same value. In 1883 it is sold for £500. In the early 1900’s the property is held in fee by Robert Adams and then James Crammond.

The OS Memoirs make a cursory mention of Rev Cuthbertson as a Presbyterian minister in the parish of Cappagh. (p.21)

References:

Primary Sources

1. PRONI OS/6/6/35/1-3 – Ordnance Survey Maps (1833, 1854, 1906)
2. PRONI VAL/1/A/6/35 – Townland Valuation Map
3. PRONI VAL/2/B/626/B – Townland Valuation Records (1828-40)
4. PRONI VAL/12/D/6/41/35/A-L – Annual Revision Records (1860-1929)
5. Day, A and McWilliams, P eds. ‘OS Memoirs of Ireland, Parishes of County Tyrone I, 1821, 1823, 1833-36, Vol 5’ Institute of Irish Studies, 1990

Criteria for listing: architectural interest

A. Style
B. Proportion
C. Ornamentation
D. Plan Form
I. Quality and survival of Interior
J. Setting

Criteria for listing: historic interest

X. Local Interest

Evaluation

Three-bay two-storey house built c. 1820. A simple but solid house of late Georgian appearance which retains many features typical of the style and type. Details throughout are plain, robust and unaltered, with the tripartite windows being of note as indicating a property of more substance than the common sort. The house is a good example of its type and is unusual in its survival and completeness.