Legnabraid Road

The Department's description

Exterior description and setting

Detached two-bay single-storey direct-entry dwelling, built c.1820, located to the north side of Legnabraid Road, Newtownstewart. Direct-entry rectangular plan.

Roof is corrugated metal over thatch, brick gable chimneystacks. Walls are lime-rendered random rubble; window and door openings are now empty with only a few timber frames remaining.

Principal elevation faces south and contains entrance off centre at right; window opening at each side.

Left gable is blank.

Rear elevation contains four window openings, two to each bay.

Right gable is blank.

Setting:-
Located in a remote rural location, and possibly connected with farmyard at north-east. The site is largely overgrown by vegetation with no other visible structures within the context.

Roof: Corrugated metal over thatch
Walling: Rendered
Windows: None remaining; timber frames
RWG N/A

Historical information

The building is shown on the first edition OS map of 1833.

The house is not recorded in the Townland Valuation, as its value was below the quota for inclusion. It is recorded in Griffith’s Valuation of 1858 as a ‘house, offices and land’, occupied by Charles Hagan and leased from Rebecca Adams. The building valuation was originally £1.5s and revised to £0.15s (date of revision not given). No significant changes are recorded in Valuation Revisions apart from a change of occupier to Mary Hagan in 1882, and the deletion of a house under the same plot reference in 1872.

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 VAL/2/B/6/40A –Griffith’s Valuation (1858)
5.PRONI VAL/12/B/39/10A-F –Valuation Revisions (1860-1929)

Criteria for listing: architectural interest

Not listed

Criteria for listing: historic interest

Not listed

Evaluation

Detached two-bay single-storey direct-entry vernacular dwelling, built c.1820. Largely intact in plan form and internal detailing includes a wall hearth with tapered brick canopy supported on brick jambs. The timber roof structure remains largely intact, with the vestiges of thatch, under the corrugated metal but in a state of collapse. This is a significant feature and of note in its survival. However, the building is in poor condition and is not of special architectural or historic interest.

General comments

New listing. Map image taken form working map, six-inch map not available.