House

The Department's description

Exterior description and setting

A much altered symmetrical two-storey / three-bay house aligned SW-NE close to the southern boundary of Derryard Townland.

Hipped artificial slate roof with terracotta ridge tiles and a brick chimney with decorative brick coping at party wall between each bay. Ogee plastic rainwater goods. Walls are pebble-dashed over a cement-rendered base course with stepped cement quoins. There is a cement-rendered platband at first floor cill level, off which a decorative lugged vertical band rises between each bay to eaves level. All windows are uPVC top-hung casements with cement cills (unless otherwise stated).

Principal elevation faces SE. To centre is a modern glazed and timber door with sidelights and a semi-elliptical fanlight over. To either side is a window. Aligned above ground floor openings are three windows. All openings have cement rendered reveals; those to ground floor windows have decorative heads.

Left gable is blank.

Rear elevation has a door to each end; that to left is uPVC, that to right is timber. Central bay has two windows. First floor has three equally spaced windows.

Right gable has a large central window at ground floor.

Historical information

A building is shown at this location on the 1834 OS 6” map. However, it is only valued at 10s.0d on the 1862 valuation – this suggests a smaller building than the present two-storey one. The precise date of the latter is uncertain, and no further information is provided by the valuation revision books. It is probably of later 19th century date.

Primary sources:
1. OS map, 1st edition 1834, Co Fermanagh sheet 36.
2. Published valuation (1862), Co Fermanagh, Clones Union, p.77.

Criteria for listing: architectural interest

Not listed

Criteria for listing: historic interest

Not listed

Evaluation

A much altered house which retains little original character and no features of interest.