Lisnaharney Road

The Department's description

Exterior description and setting

Detached three-bay two-storey rendered house, built c.1880. Rectangular on plan facing south with its rear elevation facing into a rectangular plan yard enclosed by single and two-storey stone outbuildings.

Pitched natural slate roof, black clay ridge tiles and a pair of brick chimneystacks to either gable end with an angled brick course. Cast-iron rainwater goods. Painted rough-cast render walling. Square-headed window openings with concrete sills and replacement timber casement windows.

Symmetrical three-bay front (south) elevation with a central square-headed door opening having replacement timber panelled and glazed door flanked by fixed-pane sidelights on concrete sills and rectangular overlight. Door opens into enclosed, overgrown front garden with wrought-iron pedestrian gate on stone piers to lane to the east.

Blank west gable with lean-to single-storey structure.

Symmetrical three-bay rear (north) elevation with a central square-headed door opening having vertically-sheeted timber door with glazed upper panel. Door opens directly into rear yard.

Blank east gable abutting the approach lane.

Setting:-
To the west of the house is a single-storey painted stone structure with pitched corrugated iron roof and timber vehicular door. The west side of the yard is enclosed by a three-bay two-storey painted rubble stone outbuilding with pitched natural slate roof, black clay ridge tiles, steel rainwater goods and white-washed coursed rubble stone walling with tooled quoins. Square-headed window and door openings with stone lintels and sills, vertically-sheeted timber doors and shutters. The north of the yard is a single-storey outbuilding with pitched corrugated iron roof, white-washed rubble stone wall and single vehicular opening with double-leaf vertically-sheeted timber doors. A flight of concrete steps spans the space between this building and the two-storey building. The east side of the yard is enclosed by a further range of single-storey outbuildings with pitched natural slate roof to the southern half, corrugated iron roof to the north half. White-washed rubble stone walls, square-headed door openings with stone and timber lintels, vertically-sheeted timber doors and a single timber sliding sash window to the south gable. The yard opens into a lane to the east gable of the house in a southerly direction to meet the Lisnaharney Road.

Roof: Natural slate
Walling: Render
Windows: Timber
Rainwater goods: Cast-iron

Historical information

There are houses on this plot from the first edition OS map of 1833. The current house appears on the third edition of 1905-6 replacing an earlier house with a similar footprint. Although the appearance of the new house cannot be deduced from OS maps, valuation records and survey evaluation support a date of construction of c.1880.

Griffith’s valuation records buildings on the plot as occupied by Timothy Shaw and leased from Thomas Black. They are valued at £1.5s.

In 1883 James Cooke becomes the occupier and a note of 1894 states ‘house built a few years, slate, 36x21x15’ The value of the plot is consequently raised to £2.15s. James Cooke becomes the owner in fee in 1906. In 1933 valuers note that the house comprises a ground floor of two rooms, a kitchen and pantry and a first floor of ‘one room subdivided into four’.

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/1/A/6/18 – Townland Valuation Map
6. PRONI VAL/1/B/645A-B – Townland Valuation (1828-40)
7. PRONI VAL/2/A/6/18 – Griffiths’ Valuation Map
8. PRONI VAL/2/B/6/47B– Griffith’s Valuation (1856-64)
9. PRONI VAL/12/B/41/19A-F – Annual Revision Records (1860-1929)
10. PRONI VAL/3/D/7/8P/3 – Valuers RV Binder (1933-57)

Criteria for listing: architectural interest

Not listed

Criteria for listing: historic interest

Not listed

Evaluation

Detached three-bay two-storey rendered house, built c.1880. The house forms a representative example of a grouping once common in rural areas. However, it is of a late date and the loss of original fenestration and detailing has compromised its architectural and historic interest.