Historic Buildings Record · Northern Ireland
House
Dresternan, Fermanagh and Omagh, Northern Ireland
The record
- Designation
- Record only (not listed)
- Grade
- Record Only
- Type
- House
- Date of construction
- 1820 - 1839
- Address
- House, Dresternan, Rosslea, Co Fermanagh, BT92 7FQ
- Townland
- Dresternan
- Council
- Fermanagh and Omagh
- Country
- Northern Ireland
- Coordinates
- 54.23614, -7.21511
- Date of survey
- 12 September 2000
- HB reference
- HB12/01/082
Slide toward Today to fade the historical sheet and see the modern map underneath.
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Shown on 4 historical map sheets, the earliest the 1811 "Ireland." (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries).
The Department's description
Exterior description and setting
One-and-a-half storey/ two bay direct-entry vernacular dwelling aligned roughly E-W on the main Rosslea-Lisnaskea road.
Pitched corrugated metal roof with a single brick chimney to right gable; formerly thatched. Half-round cast-iron rainwater goods.
Principal elevation faces S. Walls are random rubble stone with vestiges of lime render. Right bay has a door set to the left and a window to right. Door is t+g sheeted with latch; over is a transom rising to eaves level containing a pair of 2/2 sliding sash windows. Window at right is 2/2 sliding sash with painted stone cill and reveals. Left bay has the remains of a similar window.
Left gable is abutted by a lean-to (detailed as house) it has a door opening to front face. The exposed section has a window to apex.
Rear elevation has a single window to left bay.
Right gable is blank.
Historical information
A building is shown here on the 1834 OS 6” map. It may well be the present building.
Primary sources:
1. OS map, 1st edition 1834, Co Fermanagh 36.
Criteria for listing: architectural interest
Not listed
Criteria for listing: historic interest
Not listed
Evaluation
A direct-entry formerly thatched vernacular dwelling with transom over entrance door lighting the attic bedroom. Internally it retains some original fabric along with its traditional fireplace.
Nearby in the register
- Demolished HouseDemolishedunder 1 mi
- 104 Inver RoadNo type recordedunder 1 mi
- Inscribed StonesMemorialunder 1 mi
- Houseunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.