17 Inishative Road,

The Department's description

Exterior description and setting

Detached three-bay single-storey vernacular dwelling, built c.1820, located to south side of Inishative Road. Rectangular-on-plan with small wind-break porch to north; bed outshot to south; attached single-storey outbuildings to east and west.

Roof is pitched corrugated metal with raised sandstone verges; lime-rendered chimneys with brick corbelled coping. Walls are of rubble construction and lime-rendered. Windows are timber-framed 1/1 sliding sashes with margin lights in smooth rendered architraves with keyblock detail; painted masonry sills.

Principal elevation faces north; left bay contains single 6/6 sliding sash window; central bay contains window flanked at left by windbreak porch with sandstone canopy containing vertically-sheeted timber entrance door; right bay contains single window.
East gable is abutted by rubble outbuilding (windows and doors removed).

South elevation is abutted at centre by bed outshot with catslide roof; exposed sections at left and right each contain single window with brick surround.

West gable is abutted by rubble byre with metal casement windows; partially lime rendered and rebuilt; eaves level has been raised with concrete blockwork. Exposed elevation at eaves has exposed purlin-ends.

Setting:-
Single-storey outbuilding to north (detailed as house) enclosed small farmyard to north-east; access through wrought-iron gate. Set at corner of lane in private farmland; bounded to rear by vegetation.

Roof: Corrugated metal
Walling: Render
Windows: Timber
RWG: Cast-iron

Historical information

The building is shown on the first edition OS map of 1833. However it is not included in the Townland Valuation as it is too low in value for inclusion. Griffith’s Valuation records three entries under the same plot reference, each is a ‘house and office’, valued at £0.10s. John, Peter & Henry Kelly are the occupiers and the property is leased from Sir John Stewart BT.

Valuation Revisions only records two entries, the house occupied by Peter Kelly is valued at £1 in book A, and other than this no significant changes are recorded.

References:

Primary Sources

1. PRONI OS/6/6/44/1-4 - Ordnance Survey Maps (1834, 1854, 1906-7, 1935)
2. PRONI VAL/2/A/6/44 - Griffith’s Valuation Map (1858)
3. PRONI VAL/2/B/6/34B - Griffith’s Valuation (1858)
4. PRONI VAL/12/B/41/2A-F - Valuation Revisions (1860-1924)

Criteria for listing: architectural interest

Not listed

Criteria for listing: historic interest

Not listed

Evaluation

A detached three-bay single-storey vernacular dwelling, built c.1820. The building is distinctly vernacular in style with simple construction and materials, built in stone with corrugated pitched roof, probably thatched originally. The attached outbuildings are also consistent in style and construction. However, it is of a relatively common type and detailing and is not among the best examples of a traditional rural dwelling.