Historic Buildings Record · Northern Ireland
Martel Cottage
Killesher, Fermanagh and Omagh, Northern Ireland
The record
- Designation
- Listed building, Grade B2
- Grade
- B2
- Type
- House
- Date of listing
- 7 July 1989
- Date of construction
- 1820 - 1839
- Address
- Martel Cottage, 133 Marble Arch Road, Killesher, Croaghrim, Co. Fermanagh, BT92 1DY
- Townland
- Killesher
- Council
- Fermanagh and Omagh
- Country
- Northern Ireland
- Coordinates
- 54.27395, -7.81452
- Date of survey
- 09 April 2003
- HB reference
- HB12/09/008
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Shown on 4 historical map sheets, the earliest the 1811 "Ireland." (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries).
The Department's description
Exterior description and setting
A single storey, three-bay, lobby entry house with central hearth.
The hipped roof is thatched and a small corbelled chimneystack serves the kitchen hearth.
The external finish is of rough plaster.
The house that faces south-west occupies a roadside position about three miles from Blacklion travelling north-west to meet the road from Derrylin to Enniskillen.
The entrance door of modern sheeted construction, with a glazed panel in the upper part, is flanked on either side by a plain glazed vertically sliding sash window with curved sash stops and deep stone sills.
The gable walls are blank without fenestration.
The rear elevation contains a modern timber door with a square glazed panel above two over two vertical panels.
A window to the right (north-west) is similar in appearance to those at the front.
Support at the rear is provided by two large buttresses.
Historical information
The house, with an outbuilding to the north, appears in existing form on the OS map of 1834 and on the OS revision of 1857
It was the home of a Mr Bowles who was a gamekeeper employed by the Florencecourt Estate. He accompanied Edward Martel on the original expedition to explore the Marble Arch Caves in 1895.
References- Primary sources
1 PRONI VAL/1A/4/26 OS map, County Fermanagh sheet 26, with valuation
references (1834 / 35-c.38)
2 PRONI VAL/2A/4/26 Revised OS map, County Fermanagh sheet 26, with valuation references (1857-c.62)
3 PRONI VAL/2B/4/3A Second valuation, Killesher (1862)
Secondary Sources
Gailey, A., Rural Houses of the North of Ireland, page 68, Fig. 62, photograph of the house, UFTM L 1378.7.
Criteria for listing: architectural interest
A. Style
B. Proportion
C. Ornamentation
D. Plan Form
J. Setting
K. Group value
Criteria for listing: historic interest
X. Local Interest
Z. Rarity
V. Authorship
Evaluation
A single storey, three-bay, lobby entry thatched roof house. The continuing existence of a hipped thatched building is comparatively rare and the road side setting is important
Nearby in the register
- CLADAGH BRIDGEBRIDGEunder 1 mi
- LISDEEVAN HOUSEHOUSEunder 1 mi
- WHEATHILL OLD METHODIST CHURCHCHURCH1 mi
- THATCHED COTTAGE AT GREENWOODHILLHouse1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.