27 Killymore Road

The Department's description

Exterior description and setting

Detached three-bay two-storey rendered house, built c.1880. Rectangular on plan facing north with entrance porch and corrugated iron accretion to east and attached two-storey stone outbuilding further east. Single-storey lean-to corrugated-iron roofed extension to rear, two single-storey outbuildings to east and further outbuilding to west.

Pitched natural slate roof with three rendered chimneystacks having clay pots, terracotta roll-moulded ridge tiles and timber bargeboards to either gable end. Three wall head dormers to front elevation with terracotta finials, timber bargeboards and cast-iron rainwater goods. Painted cement rendered walling. Square-headed window openings, stone sills and single-pane timber sliding sash windows.

Symmetrical three-bay front elevation with central square-headed door opening having original timber panelled door and rectangular overlight. Off-centre entrance porch to the left with gabled natural slate roof, terracotta ridge, timber bargeboard, cast-iron rainwater goods and vertically-sheeted timber door to east with rectangular overlight. Single-bay single-storey (with attic) byre to east with pitched corrugated iron roof, rendered chimneystack to east gable, cast-iron rainwater goods, cement rendered walls and square-headed window opening with 2/2 timber sash window.

East gable of corrugated iron accretion attached to lower single-storey byre, having a single timber sash window to attic level.
Four-bay rear elevation with the three ground floor windows to the east obscured by lean-to extension. Square-headed door opening to east side of lean-to opens into sheltered area with a 2/2 timber sash window to the rear elevation.

West side elevation is blank except a single square-headed window opening with single-pane timber sash window to first floor.

Setting

Single-storey rubble stone byre attached to north elevation with ruinous pitched natural slate roof and timber plank door and shutter to single window.

Attached to the north is a further two-storey outbuilding with pitched natural slate roof, rubble stone walling with tooled quoins and square-headed window and door openings with stone lintels and timber plank doors and half-doors.

House is set on a hill with front gravel area and an elevated rear garden. A lane to the west leads to the road with a modern steel gate to the road.

Roof: Natural slate / corrugated tin
Walling: Cement render
Windows: Timber
Rainwater goods: Cast-iron

Historical information

The house first appears on the third edition OS map of 1905-6. There are buildings on the site from at least the first edition of 1833 and some of these appear to have survived as outbuildings. An extension to the rear of the house is shown on the fourth edition of 1953.

Buildings on the plot are listed in Griffith’s Valuation as occupied by Claude Hamilton and leased from Major A W Cole Hamilton. They are valued at £1.5s. The plot remains in the Hamilton family and David Hamilton becomes the owner in fee in 1909. The building of a new house on the plot c.1880 is not recorded in Annual Revisions.

In 1933 the valuer describes the house as comprising two rooms, a kitchen, scullery and porch on the ground floor and 3 bedrooms on the first floor. A plan and dimensions are given. The valuer describes the house as “in good repair and well built” and revises the value to £6.10s.

References:

Primary Sources

1. PRONI OS/6/6/18/1 – First Edition OS Map (1833)
2. PRONI OS/6/6/18/2 – Second Edition OS Map (1854)
3. PRONI OS/6/6/18/3 – Third Edition OS Map (1905-6)
4. PRONI OS/6/6/18/4 – Fourth Edition OS Map (1953)
5. PRONI VAL/2/A/6/18 – Griffiths’ Valuation Map
6. PRONI VAL/2/B/6/45A– Griffith’s Valuation (1856-64)
7. PRONI VAL/12/B/39/6A-F – Annual Revision Records (1860-1929)
8. PRONI VAL/3/D/7/8P/4 – Valuers RV Binder (1933-57)

Criteria for listing: architectural interest

Not listed

Criteria for listing: historic interest

Not listed

Evaluation

A plain detached three-bay two-storey rendered house, built c.1880, set on a hill with front gravel area and an elevated rear garden. The house retains an intact exterior with all windows and doors in situ, although compromised by cement render. The stone outbuildings to the front and rear complete this small farm in its rural setting. However, it is of a late date and a relatively common type of which there are better examples.