Historic Buildings Record · Northern Ireland
Vernacular House
Drumboghanagh Glebe, Fermanagh and Omagh, Northern Ireland
The record
- Designation
- Record only (not listed)
- Grade
- Record Only
- Type
- House
- Date of construction
- 1880 - 1899
- Address
- Vernacular House, Drumboghanagh Glebe, Cavan Road, Newtownbutler, Co. Fermanagh, BT92 8FB
- Townland
- Drumboghanagh Glebe
- Council
- Fermanagh and Omagh
- Country
- Northern Ireland
- Coordinates
- 54.12321, -7.34385
- Date of survey
- 04 December 2000
- HB reference
- HB12/02/087
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 1869 "Ireland." (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries).
The Department's description
Exterior description and setting
A one-and-a-half storey / two bay roadside vernacular house aligned N-S on the E side of the Cavan Road.
Pitched natural slate roof with a central brick chimney. Overhanging eaves with exposed rafter tails support plastic rainwater goods. Walls are whitewashed lime-plastered over a tarred base course. Windows are uPVC top-hung casements with painted reveals and stone cills.
Principal elevation faces W and is abutted to centre by a projecting entrance porch. It has a pitched artificial slate roof (rising to eaves level) with timber bargeboards and painted cement-rendered walls. Front face has a window to centre. Left cheek has a timber-sheeted door. Right cheek is blank.
Left gable has a side-hung casement to apex.
Rear elevation is blank.
Right gable is abutted by a lower outbuilding (now incorporated into house). The exposed section has a window to apex. The outbuilding has cement-rendered walls to front (otherwise detailed as house) and a pitched corrugated metal roof. Front elevation has a timber top-hung casement to left and a t+g sheeted door to right. The exposed gable is blank. Rear had a large opening (to eaves level) set to left of centre. It has now been infilled and cement-rendered.
Historical information
A small building is shown on the 1834 OS 6" map. A building similar in size to the present one is shown on the 1857 map. However, its valuation increases from 15s.0d to £3.10s.0d in 1880 and it is now described as a "house and forge". This suggests a rebuilt at this time. It is cited as "smithy" on the 1907 map - this refers to the gable annex.
Primary sources:
1. OS 6" map, 1st edition, 1834, Co Fermanagh sheet 43 (PRONI OS 6/4/43/1).
2. OS 6" map, 2nd edition, 1857, Co Fermanagh sheet 43 (PRONI OS 6/4/43/2).
3. Valuation revision book, Drummully DED, Clones Union, 1880 (VAL 12B/25/4B, p.31b).
4. OS 6" map, 3rd edition, 1907, Co Fermanagh sheet 43 (PRONI OS 6/4/43/3).
Criteria for listing: architectural interest
Not listed
Criteria for listing: historic interest
Not listed
Evaluation
Despite a number of unsympathetic replacements, this lobby-entry vernacular dwelling and outbuilding retain a certain amount of character and forms a pleasant roadside feature.
Nearby in the register
- Druid's TempleArchaeological Siteunder 1 mi
- Milestone 17 MileMilestoneunder 1 mi
- The Old RectoryHouseunder 1 mi
- Hallunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.