House adjoining

The Department's description

Exterior description and setting

Attached two-bay single-storey vernacular dwelling, built c.1900, located to the west side of Comber Road, at the corner of Drumnakilly Road. Rectangular-on-plan with pitched extension to rear connected via flat-roofed link block.

Roof is pitched natural slate coated in tar with blue/black clay ridge tiles; raised rendered verges; lime-rendered corbelled chimneys; roof of extension is corrugated metal. Walls are of rubble construction and lime-rendered over painted plinth. Windows are metal casements with painted masonry sills.

Principal elevation faces east; central square-headed vertically-sheeted timber door with glazed panel flanked at left and right by single window.

South gable is blank.

West elevation contains single window at right; abutted at left by return containing single window to south.

North gable is abutted by adjoining house.

Setting:-
Set within private grounds with corrugated metal shed to rear; attached single-storey house to north with pitched corrugated metal roof. Bounded to south and west and east sides by hedging; bounded to adjoining house at north by rendered plinth wall; access from road at east though pair of metal gates supported on concrete piers.

Roof: Natural slate
Walling: Render
Windows: Metal
RWG: Cast-iron / uPVC

Historical information

A structure with the same footprint of the present house first appears on site in the third edition of the OS Maps, and appears unchanged on the subsequent two editions.

The Valuation Revisions record a small “Cottier’s House” in 1890, valued at 10s., occupied by John Corrigan and owned by Bernard McAleer, has been “[pulled] down [in] 1901,” with no further mention until the subsequent 1912 book. A “house” on the site appears in this book occupied by John Livingston with the immediate lessor as John Nugent, valued at 10s. Lessor John Nugent owned several similarly valued houses in the area.

The vernacular nature of the house makes it hard to precisely date, it is stylistically of the late nineteenth or early twentieth century, however the metal casement windows suggest that the house was rebuilt c.1910 on the site of a similarly sized property.

1. PRONI OS/6/6/26/1-5 Ordnance Survey Maps First to Fifth Editions.
2. PRONI VAL/12/D/6/35F – Valuation Revisions Map
3. PRONI VAL/12/B/41/26E-F – Valuation Revisions (1860-1929)
4. PRONI VAL/3D/7/8JJ/1 - Valuers’ R.V. Binders’ (1933-1957)

Criteria for listing: architectural interest

Not listed

Criteria for listing: historic interest

Not listed

Evaluation

An attached two-bay single-storey vernacular dwelling, built c.1900. The building remains largely intact, retaining original form and layout, as well as a tarred slate roofing. While of local interest, the house is a common type of a late date and not one of the best examples of the type.