39 High Street

The Department's description

Exterior description and setting

A two storey/ three bay house with central gable, aligned roughly N-S on the E side of High Street.

Half-hipped natural slate roof with a cement-rendered chimney between each bay. Advanced eaves course supports half-round metal rainwater goods.

Principal elevation faces W. Walls are lined-cement rendered with stepped stucco quoins. All windows are modern top-hung uPVC casements, unless otherwise stated. To centre is modern brick porch with flat roof. Modern stained timber and glazed entrance door with matching side panels and transom over. Above in wall-head gable, is a 4/4 casement window with painted cill. Left and right bays each have a semicircular-headed painted recess with similar window.

Right gable has a window to ground floor right and two to first floor.

Rear elevation has a central two-storey return detailed as house with pitched natural slate roof with chimney to end gable. The exposed left section of main block is blank and the exposed right section has a window.

The S face of the return is abutted to left-end by a lean-to addition; it has a metal-framed window to each exposed cheek. The return has a central gabled porch with modern glazed timber door to S face; to its right is a side-hung window with no cill, above to first floor are two windows that to the left is smaller – both with stone cills. The N face of the return has a 1/1 sliding sash window to ground floor and a casement window to first floor. The lean-to extension has a metal-framed window.

Left gable of main block has a window to ground floor left and aligned above to first floor are two windows, diminished in height – all are 1/1 sliding sashes.

House is set back from road and enclosed by a random rubble wall and accessed by a loop-headed wrought-iron gate supported on rubble stone gate piers with pyramidal caps.

Historical information

This house is first shown on the 1857 OS 6" map. It is described as "nearly finished" in the 1860 manuscript second Valuation and as being occupied by one John Lutton. He was agent to the Earl of Lanesborough, and this was his summer residence. The building measured 36ft x 24ft x 1.5 storeys high, with a porch and two two-storey returns (one 21ft x 15ft, the other 15ft x 9ft in plan).

Primary sources:
1. OS 6" map, 1st edition (1834), Co Fermanagh sheet 40 (PRONI OS 6/4/40/1).
2. OS 6" map, 2nd edition (1857), Co Fermanagh sheet 40 (PRONI OS 6/4/40/2).
3. Second Valuation book, 1860 (PRONI VAL 2B/4/7F, p.7).
4. Second Valuation map (PRONI VAL 2D/4/8, plot 23).

Criteria for listing: architectural interest

Not listed

Criteria for listing: historic interest

Not listed

Evaluation

An interesting house within the village, unfortunately many alterations combine to detract from its overall character and appearance.