House nr 22 Coolaharan Road

The Department's description

Exterior description and setting

Detached two-bay single-storey direct-entry vernacular dwelling, built c.1850, located to the east side of Coolaharan Road. Direct-entry rectangular plan with small wind-break porch to south; single-storey lean-to extension to north, built c.1930.

Roof is pitched natural slate with raised concrete verges; rustic brick corbelled chimneys. Walls are roughcast rendered. Windows are timber framed 2/2 sliding sash (largely replaced by timber casements); painted masonry sills.

Principal elevation faces south; left bay contains two timber casement windows; right bay contains windbreak porch containing vertically-sheeted timber half-door at left, flanked at right by single window.

West gable is blank.

North elevation is abutted at left by lean-to; exposed section at right is blank. Lean-to is smooth rendered with corrugated metal roof and contains single metal casement window to west and north.

East gable is blank; abutted by boundary wall.

Setting:-
The house is set within a farmyard to north of replacement dwelling, built c.1970. The farmyard is enclosed to east by a single-storey stable-block with corrugated metal roof and whitened rendered walling; abutted at south by gabled byre; abutted at north by mono-pitched store abutted to south-east corner of house; small single-storey flat-roofed byre to south; further single-storey garage to south-west extended to south; roof is corrugated metal; walls are smooth rendered.

Roof: Natural slate / corrugated tin
Walling: Render
Windows: Timber / metal
RWG: Cast-iron

Historical information

There is a building shown on the first edition Ordnance Survey map of 1833, which may have survived as an outbuilding to the current house. A building which appears to conform to the current footprint first appears on the second edition (1854), although it cannot be easily determined whether or not it has been rebuilt since that time.

The buildings are not listed in the Townland Valuation but are recorded in Griffith’s Valuation of 1858 as a ‘house and land’, occupied by Hugh Coyle and leased from Sir John Stewart Bt. The building valuation is 7s. Annual Revisions (1860-1929) record an increase in value to 10s; the occupier is revised to Patrick Coyle in 1871.

After 1933 the occupier is revised to James Toner and the value is raised to £1.5s (undated changes). The house at this time comprises one room and a kitchen and is of rubble masonry and slate.

References:

Primary Sources

1. PRONI OS/6/6/27/1-4 - Ordnance Survey Maps (1833, 1854, 1906, 1936-7)
2. PRONI VAL/2/A/6/27 - Griffith’s Valuation Map (1858)
3. PRONI VAL/2/B/6/34B - Griffith’s Valuation (1858)
4. PRONI VAL/12/B/41/28A-F – Annual Revisions (1860-1929)
5. PRONI VAL/3D/7/8AA/3 – Valuers’ RV Binder (1933-57)

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

Z. Rarity
X. Local Interest

Evaluation

A detached two-bay single-storey direct-entry vernacular dwelling, built c.1850. The building is well preserved and retains much of its original fabric and detailing, traditional features such as the bed outshot and hearth constituting particular interest and remaining unaltered. The dwelling is sited in a farmyard and altogether they are a good example of vernacular architecture and represent a way of life once common, now increasingly rare.

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