Historic Buildings Record · Northern Ireland
Vernacular House
Doohat, Fermanagh and Omagh, Northern Ireland
The record
- Designation
- Record only (not listed)
- Grade
- Record Only
- Type
- House
- Date of construction
- 1820 - 1839
- Address
- Vernacular House, Doohat, Newtownbutler, Co. Fermanagh, BT92 8AB
- Townland
- Doohat
- Council
- Fermanagh and Omagh
- Country
- Northern Ireland
- Coordinates
- 54.17370, -7.42239
- Date of survey
- 05 December 2000
- HB reference
- HB12/02/117
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Shown on 4 historical map sheets, the earliest the 1808 "Ireland." (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries).
The Department's description
Exterior description and setting
A single storey / three bay vernacular house aligned SW-NE on a lane to the W of Doohat Townland.
Pitched artificial slate roof with two cement-rendered chimneys; one at party wall between each bay. A timber eaves board supports half-round metal rainwater goods. Walls are harled. Windows are 1/1 sliding sashes with horns and stone cills (unless otherwise stated).
Principal elevation faces SE. Left bay has a window to centre. Central bay has a window to left and a t+g sheeted door with brass door furniture to right. Right bay has a timber top-hung casement window to centre.
Left gable is blank and is mostly obscured by ivy.
Rear elevation has a window to each bay.
Right gable is abutted by a lower outbuilding. The exposed section is blank. The outbuilding has a pitched corrugated metal roof and is detailed as house. SE elevation has a door to extreme right, to right of which it is abutted by a second (similarly detailed) outbuilding (see later). The exposed gable is has an infilled window opening. Rear has a window opening to left. The second outbuilding has a t+g-sheeted door to centre of SW face and a window to NE. Gable is blank.
Setting:
The house occupies a secluded site up a long lane on the hinterland of the Crom estate. To front is a small garden enclosed by low interlocking wrought-iron railings supported on cement-rendered base with square-in-section piers to either end.
Historical information
A building is shown at this location on the 1834 OS 6" map. However, it is not cited in the first Valuation book, indicating that it was a small one-storey vernacular house. By 1862 it was occupied by John Hanley and was valued at £2. There is no change to its valuation thereafter. It is probably of earlier 19th century date.
Primary sources:
1. OS 6" map, 1st edition (1834), Co Fermanagh sheet 39 (PRONI OS 6/4/39/1).
2. Second Valuation book, Galloon Parish, Clones Union, 1862, p.13.
Criteria for listing: architectural interest
Not listed
Criteria for listing: historic interest
Not listed
Evaluation
A pleasant little vernacular dwelling occupying a secluded site and of some original character.
Nearby in the register
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- FarmyardFarm Buildingsunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.