42 Main Street

The Department's description

Exterior description and setting

Attached two-bay two-storey house, built c.1830, located to the south side of Main Street. Rectangular-on-plan with single-storey lean-to to rear (south-west).

Roof is pitched natural slate with blue/black clay ridge tiles; lime-rendered chimney to party wall. Walls are lime-rendered over rubble construction. Windows are square-headed timber-framed 2/2 sliding sash; all have painted sandstone sills.

Principal elevation faces north-east; central square-headed entrance contains double-leaf timber panelled doors with top glazed panels surmounted by single window at first floor; flanked at left by window at each floor; right bay contains single casement window at ground floor.

South-east elevation is abutted at first floor by 44 Main Street (HB11/19/019A); exposed section at ground floor is blank.

South-west elevation contains, at left, single 6/6 sliding sash window at each floor; at right, abutted at ground floor by lean-to with corrugated metal roof; small window opening at first floor.

West elevation is abutted by HB11/19/019C.

Setting

House directly accessed from street at north; at south, small yard enclosed to rear by single-storey rendered garage.

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

Historical information

There are buildings shown on the site from the first edition OS map of 1833 but are not clearly identifiable as the current building. The Townland Valuation merely records houses in the vicinity as ‘eleven houses with yards &c, exempt’.

The building is first clearly identifiable in Griffith’s Valuation (1856-64). It is occupied by Charles Rafferty, leased from Sir John Stewart Bt and valued at £1.10s. The Annual Revisions town plan shows the property as divided into two. In 1908 Charles Rafferty becomes the lessor and the properties are both vacant and raised in value to £3 each. In 1912 John Rafferty is the owner and occupier. After 1934 GM Leonard becomes the occupier leasing the property, which is now a single house, shop, offices and yard, from Margaret Jane Rafferty. The value is raised to £9.10s and it is described as a ‘parlour type shop’ comprising a shop, kitchen and two rooms with 5 rooms upstairs. A plan and dimensions are given.

References:

Primary Sources

1. PRONI OS/6/6/36/1 – First Edition OS Map (1833)
2. PRONI OS/6/6/36/2 – Second Edition OS Map (1853)
3. PRONI OS/6/6/36/3 – Third Edition OS Map (1906)
4. PRONI OS/6/6/36/4 – Fourth Edition OS Map (1935)
5. PRONI VAL/1/D/6/3 – Townland Valuation Town Plan
6. PRONI VAL/1/B/632 – Townland Valuation (1828-40)
7. PRONI VAL/2/D/6/5 – Griffiths’ Valuation Town Plan
8. PRONI VAL/2/B/6/34C – Griffith’s Valuation (1856-64)
9. PRONI VAL/12/B/41/7A-F – Annual Revision Records (1860-1929)
10. PRONI VAL/12/E/183/1 – Annual Revisions Town Plan
11. PRONI VAL/3/D/7/8E/2 – Valuers RV Binder (1933-57)
12. PRONI VAL/4/A/7/91 – Valuation plan of Carrickmore

Criteria for listing: architectural interest

Not listed

Criteria for listing: historic interest

Not listed

Evaluation

An attached three-bay two-storey terrace house, built c.1830. The building retains its original form, proportions and materials, with no alterations and modernisation and, as a group, these were an increasingly rare example of urban vernacular - a type that is fast-disappearing.