Farmhouse

The Department's description

Exterior description and setting

A much altered two-storey / three bay house aligned N-S on the N side of the road directly W of Newtownbutler Village.

Hipped artificial slate roof with tiled skews and a wet-dashed chimney set perpendicular to ridge at party wall between each bay. Overhanging boxed eaves supported on timber brackets support ogee plastic rainwater goods. Walls are wet-dashed over a painted cement-rendered base course. Windows are top-hung timber casements with concrete cills.

Principal elevation faces E. To centre is a modern panelled timber door set in a semi-elliptical headed reveal. The door is flanked by Doric columns raised on a plinth to either side and supporting a plain entablature. Semi-elliptical fanlight (with radial glazing) over. To either side is a window. Aligned above ground floor openings are three windows.

S elevation is abutted at ground floor left by an addition. To its right is a window. The addition has a monopitched artificial slate roof and is detailed as house. S face has a window to left and to centre (that to left is obscurely glazed). Right cheek has a modern timber door set at right. Left cheek is blank.

Rear (W) elevation has three equally spaced windows to each floor.

N elevation has a window to ground floor left.

Setting:
The house is set in a maturely planted garden enclosed from the road by a modern balustraded boundary wall.

Historical information

This house is first cited in the Valuation revision book entry of 1875. Alterations date to 1979.

Primary sources:
1. Valuation Revision book, 1875 (PRONI VAL 12B/25/9A, p.60).

Criteria for listing: architectural interest

Not listed

Criteria for listing: historic interest

Not listed

Evaluation

This farmhouse has been unsympathetically refurbished and now retains few features of interest.