Terrace

The Department's description

Exterior description and setting

Demolished to make way for a road improvement scheme.

Historical information

This building is cited in the 1836 Valuation book and shown on the Valuation map of the same date. It is described in the former as a dwelling belonging to Samuel Clarke and had the high valuation of £29. Its measurements are given as: dwelling - 41ft x 36ft x 28ft; part of same 8ft x 15ft x 10ft; and kitchen 18ft6in x 8ft x 7ft6in. By 1860, it belonged to Isabella Clarke. Its measurements are 42ft x 36ft x 2 storeys (almost identical to 1836), with a 9ft x 12ft x 1 storey porch. Half of the ground floor was then being used as a merchant's office. The 1873 Valuation revision entry notes that Clarke's trade in tobacco had been given up and one of the buildings on the premises were now described as "old tobacco stores". The building itself is probably of earlier 19th century date.

The First survey card of 1983 describes the terrace as a “two storey (+attic) block of two houses. Roof pitched and slated. Brick chimneys to each gable. Walls roughcast and painted grey. Front has three first floor and three ground floor windows. Double-hung casement windows, Georgian paned (8/8) with moulded architraves. Ground floor (from left) has a window, a glazed and sheeted door with blocked fanlight and plain surround, a central doorway cased with fluted pilasters, carved brackets support projecting cornice above lintel; plain blocked fanlight, sheeted door. Then two windows. Left hand ground floor window has chevron decorative frieze on cill. Two storey porch backset from front on S gable. Roof slated and pitched. Front has a first floor roundel and string-course. Ground floor has a four-panelled door cased with plain surround and semi-circular-head with decorative fanlight. Three stone steps up with decorative wrought-iron handrail. Porch has double hung window to each floor on gable. Georgian panes. Long recess on each side of ground floor window. Two-light attic window on main left-hand gable (no astragals). Overall front about 50ft.”

Primary sources:
1. First Valuation town map, c.1836 (PRONI VAL 1D/4/4, plot 64).
2. First Valuation book, 1836 (PRONI VAL 1B/411A, p.133 and 258).
3. Second Valuation town map, c.1860 (PRONI VAL 2D/4/8, plot 47).
4. Second Valuation book, Galloon Parish, Clones Union, 1860 (PRONI VAL 2B/4/7F, p.13).
5. Valuation revision book, 1873 (PRONI VAL 12B/25/9A, p.52).
6. HMBB survey card, 1983.

Criteria for listing: architectural interest

Not listed

Criteria for listing: historic interest

Not listed

Evaluation

Terrace demolished to make way for a road improvement scheme.