26 Carrigans Road

The Department's description

Exterior description and setting

Detached three-bay single-storey direct-entry vernacular dwelling, built c.1830, located to the east side of Carrigans Road, at corner of Reaghan Road. Direct-entry rectangular plan with single-storey gabled porch to north.

Roof is pitched natural slate with blue/black clay ridge tiles; yellow brick corbelled chimneys. Walls are roughcast lime rendered with corbelled eaves. Windows are timber framed 6/6 sliding sash with exposed sash boxes; all have sandstone sills.

Principal elevation faces north; each bay contains single window; bay three contains single window at left; abutted at right by gabled porch with decorative timber bargeboard containing square-headed vertically-sheeted timber door with glazed panel.

East gable is blank.

South elevation contains, from left, bay one contains small casement window with iron grill; bay two contains replacement square-headed vertically-sheeted timber door with original stone lintel at left with single 2/2 sliding sash window to right; bay three contains single 2/2 sliding sash window; bay four contains large square-headed opening; vertically-sheeted timber door with louvred panel.

West gable is blank.

Setting:-
House is overgrown to north with enclosed mature garden bounded by hedging and accessed through wrought-iron gate to east.

The house is set within enclosed farmyard with a range of outbuildings to the south and east. All are of rubble construction with timber framed windows and doors surmounted by stone lintels. Two-storey outbuilding to east has pitched natural slate roof; rubble steps with sandstone treads to loading door at first floor. Single-storey L-shaped range to south-east has pitched corrugated metal roof (slate to northern section); partially lime rendered and whitened; southern section has been partially demolished. Rubble boundary wall continues to south to group of three attached single-storey buildings; left and right have pitched natural slate roof; centre building has corrugated metal roof; those to left each contain large opening; that to right (west) has central door opening flanked by window openings, suggesting this may have been a dwelling originally.

Roof: Natural slate
Walling: Rendered
Windows: Timber
RWG: Cast-iron

Historical information

The building is shown on the first edition OS map of 1833, although there appears to be an extension on the east elevation that is not shown on the 1905 OS map or the current edition. The outbuildings opposite the south elevation first appear on the 1905 map. The southern section of the ‘L’-shaped building to the east of the site is on the 1833 map, and therefore older than the northern part which does not appear until the third edition. It is now partially demolished.

The Townland Valuation records a ‘house and offices’ occupied by George Adams and valued at £7.8s. Griffith’s Valuation of 1858 lists Rebecca Adams as the occupier, the valuation however decreases slightly to £4.0s (date of revision not given). Valuation Revisions record a change of occupier in 1887 to Thomas McFarland, and that same year the valuation is increased to £5.10s due to ‘new offices’ being built. The fenestration and interior are Victorian in character and it may be that the house was refitted at the time of these later nineteenth century improvements.

References:
Primary Sources
1.PRONI OS/6/6/17/1 –First Edition OS Map (1833)
2.PRONI OS/6/6/17/2 –Second Edition OS Map (1854)
3.PRONI OS/6/6/17/3 –Third Edition OS Map (1905)
4.PRONI VAL/1/B/637A –Townland Valuation (1820-1840)
5.PRONI VAL/2/B/6/40A –Griffith’s Valuation (1858)
6.PRONI VAL/12/B/39/01A-F –Valuation Revisions (1860-1929)

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

Detached three-bay single-storey direct-entry vernacular dwelling, built c.1830, but later nineteenth-century in character. The building remains very much intact and has not been modernised, retaining much of its original character and detailing. The dwelling is set in a farmyard containing a range of rubble outbuildings, dating from the same period as the dwelling itself. As a whole, the group remains largely intact and an important example of the vernacular farm in rural Northern Ireland.

General comments

New listing.