Corlatt House

The Department's description

Exterior description and setting

A symmetrical two storey / three bay farmhouse aligned W-E on the S side of Crom Road.

Pitched natural slate roof with stone skews and kneeler stones. There is a dressed stone chimney to each gable. Advanced stone eaves support ogee plastic rainwater goods. Walls are pebble-dashed with stepped stone quoins over a cement-rendered base course. Windows are timber top-hung casements with stone cills.

Principal elevation faces N. Central timber door consists of two raised elongated panels with bolection moulding and beaded muntin and is flanked by two panelled pilasters with decorative curved heads. There is a shallow segmental headed fanlight with decorative glazing over. All is contained within a segmental-headed pole-moulded recess and accessed by a stone step. Each flanking bay has a window. Aligned above ground floor openings are three windows; all slightly diminished in height.

Left gable has a window to ground floor centre.

Rear elevation is abutted to right hand side of right bay by a lean-to annexe (see later). Left bay has a window set just to left of centre. Central bay has a modern timber door with a small window to either side (that to its right is fixed pane). Exposed section of right bay has a window. First floor has three windows; that to centre is taller (lighting stairwell). The annexe is detailed as house with a monopitched natural slate roof. Left cheek contains a fixed pane window. Other elevations are blank.

Right gable has a window to extreme left, and to centre.

Historical information

Although a building is shown at this location in the 1834 OS 6" map, the present house appears to date from c.1870. The Valuation revision book entry for this year notes an increase in the valuation of the building from £3.10s.0d to £7.10s.0d (and to £9.10s.0d in 1874 - probably the addition of outbuildings; a gate lodge was also added at this time). It was then occupied by James Donegan. It is cited as Corlatt House in the 1907 OS map. It appears to have been erected at the same time as HB 12-02-059, which was occupied by John Donegan and has a similar architecture form. According to a local person both houses were built by Dublin silversmith Patrick Donegan for his two sons.

Primary sources:
1. OS 6" map, 1st edition, 1834, Co Fermanagh sheet 39 (PRONI OS 6/4/39/1).
2. OS 6" map, 2nd edition, 1857, Co Fermanagh sheet 39 (PRONI OS 6/4/39/2).
3. Second Valuation book, Galloon Parish, Clones Union, 1862, p.11.
4. Valuation revision book, 1870 (PRONI VAL 12B/25/4A, p.28).
5. OS 6" map, 3rd edition, 1907, Co Fermanagh sheet 39 (PRONI OS 6/4/39/3).

Criteria for listing: architectural interest

Not listed

Criteria for listing: historic interest

Not listed

Evaluation

A pleasant house of good proportions which retains some features of interest, including a particularly striking entrance door.