81 Tullylammy Road

The Department's description

Exterior description and setting

Three bay thatched vernacular single storey direct entry, mud and brick, thatched house with lean-to shed abutting lower northern gable. Building faces east onto a ‘street’. Barns on the other side are in two rows perpendicular to the house. Projecting flat roofed entrance porch with mock ashlar coursing painted on in bright blue and 1955 in relief over the entrance door. Door is sheeted and painted. Two pane sash window to southern end. Two windows to northern side of porch facing onto a low walled garden. Timber sash to kitchen, metal window to lower room. Front wall harled and painted white with projecting plinth course betraying the irregular
setting out of the wall.

Thatch is fixed by the scollop method and has a flush ridge. Fixings are hidden with the exception of a single hazel ligger along the eaves.

Southern gable smooth rendered and painted white. Timber rail nailed to wall three quarters of the way up as part of a previous attempt to keep render on wall. Thatched roof turned down over top and sides of gable wall. Currently a small crack to the junction with the front wall. There is a large crack, 30mm wide in places at the junction with the rear elevation. The concrete plinth is carried around this elevation and there is a wide seugh (900mm) before ground slopes up and away from the building.

The rear elevation has two small windows to the upper structural bay one a two pane sash, the other a four pane casement has been painted white. The central bay has a single two pane sash directly opposite the entrance door. The lower bay has two sash windows. The lower bay is constructed of brick which as been white washed. The other bays appear to have a smooth lime render which has been whitewashed. There is evidence of patching in places particularly over the whitened window. The plinth course and concrete sheugh return along this elevation and end in a muddy field boundary at the lean-too shed. The wall is leaning outwards along the upper part of the southern bay.
The northern elevation of the house is in brick partly obscured by the lean-too shed but all in bad condition. A small two pane sash lights an attic room the surrounding bricks on the exterior have crumbled away.

Three chimneys on the roof on top of all walls but the southern gable. Thatch abuts concrete parapet at brick wall. There is a deep overhang at the eaves (500mm)

Historical information

A house is shown on this site on the OS map of 1834-35, with a corn kiln shown to the east side, but neither are noted in the near contemporary valuation. On the revised OS map of 1859 the corn kiln is no longer present, with the house the only building left on this particular plot. The occupant is recorded in the 1861 valuation as Thomas Breen, with Henry Mervyn Darcy Irvine the immediate lessor and the rateable value calculated at £2.

References- Primary sources
1 PRONI VAL/1A/4/10 OS map, County Fermanagh sheet 10, with valuation
references (1834 / 35-c.38)
2 PRONI VAL/2A/4/10B Revised OS map, County Fermanagh sheet 10, with valuation references (1859-c.61)
3 PRONI VAL/2B/4/23C Second valuation, Derryvullan (1861)

The building is indicated on the 1834 Ordnance Survey Map. To the west a corn kiln is labeled within the farmyard buildings. It was a two roomed structure with the brick bay to the north added in the late nineteenth century (indicated on 1907 map). The bricks according to the former owner were made in a field nearby for this job. The entrance porch was added in 1955. The hearth fire and concrete floors were renovated during the 1970’s. The lean-too shed dates from this period. The boundary wall around the garden replaced a shed during the 1980’s.

References- Primary sources

Ordnance Survey First Edition 1834 Co Fermanagh Sheet 10
Ordnance Survey Second Edition 1857 Co Fermanagh Sheet 10
Ordnance Survey 1906 Edition Sheet 173

Secondary sources

Former Owner

Criteria for listing: architectural interest

A. Style
B. Proportion
C. Ornamentation
D. Plan Form
F. Structural System
H+. Alterations enhancing the building
I. Quality and survival of Interior
J. Setting

Criteria for listing: historic interest

Z. Rarity
X. Local Interest

Evaluation

A three bay, direct entry, vernacular house retaining its thatch and historic roof construction. The historic plan has also been preserved. Two bays built of mud one bay built of locally burnt brick. The mud wall is of an unusual construction for Northern Ireland being constructed of ‘bricks’ and not a compressed mass. The building enhances its surroundings and is a good example of a type increasingly rare in this region.