46 Mullylun Road

The Department's description

Exterior description and setting

A single storey, three bay direct entry thatched house with a rendered and grey coloured wall finish.

The building faces south-west and is accessed from a minor road that proceeds in a north-easterly direction from the Derrylin/Belturbet road about two and a half miles from the former town.

The thatch is contained within parapet gables built up to almost the level of the covering. Two rows of scollops are exposed at the ridge with one at the eaves. There are two rendered and corbelled chimneystacks, each with one black pot, on the ridgeline, one is set over the kitchen hearth and the other over the position of the parlour fireplace.

The construction of the house is of stone and brick finished in smooth render without a base.

The entrance contains a timber-sheeted door with glazed upper panel and black painted door blocks to match the window sills. To the left (north-west) of the entrance there are two plain sashed vertically sliding windows with one to the right. Sash stops are splayed and sills are of traditional depths. There are no openings in the gables.

At the rear there are two similar windows to the north-west of the lean-to roofed kitchen extension. The windows of the extension are of a simple modern variety, rainwater goods are of plastic and the entrance on the south-east side is provided with door blocks

Historical information

A building appears to be shown on this site on the OS map of 1834 / 35, with the present Mullylun Road shown on the revised OS map of 1857. The building is not recorded in the first valuation of c.1835, but is included in that of 1862, with Peter Curry listed as the occupant (a tenant ‘at will’), the Earl of Erne the lessor and the rateable value the very modest 5/-.

The rear of the roof and half of the front were re-thatched, the outside re-rendered and the inside re-plastered in October 1993. Some of the roof timbers were identified as oak and ash at that time. Evidence was later discovered of the use of tying rope. Complete thatching was carried out in 1999-2000 by Billy Kilpatrick using flax and retaining existing scraws.

References- Primary sources
1 PRONI VAL/1A/4/38 OS map, County Fermanagh sheet 38, with valuation
references (1834 / 35-c.38)
2 PRONI VAL/2A/4/38B Revised OS map, County Fermanagh sheet 38, with valuation references (1857-c.62)
3 PRONI VAL/2B/4/8C Second valuation, Kinawley (1862)

Secondary sources
1 EHS Survey of Thatched Buildings, report by Colin Hatrick, 1992
2 EHS Monitoring of Thatched Buildings, report by Michele McFaul to EHS, 23 April 1994

Criteria for listing: architectural interest

A. Style
B. Proportion
C. Ornamentation
D. Plan Form
F. Structural System
J. Setting

Criteria for listing: historic interest

Z. Rarity
X. Local Interest

Evaluation

A single storey, three bay, direct entry thatched house with a rendered grey-coloured wall finish.

The original layout is clearly discernible and retention of the form of the fenestration together with the purlin roof structure is of considerable interest. It should be noted that the roof structure was strengthened with minimal intervention.