Telephone Kiosk

Townagh, Council not recorded, Northern Ireland

The record

Designation: Listed building, Grade B2
Grade: B2
Type: Telephone Kiosk
Date of listing: 26 February 1979
Date of delisting: 22 July 1998
Date of construction: 1940 - 1959
Address: Telephone Kiosk, Aghintain Road, Clogher, BT76 0UY
Townland: Townagh
Council: Council not recorded
Country: Northern Ireland
Coordinates: 54.42280, -7.22143
Date of survey: 14 August 1997
HB reference: HB13/02/072

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Exterior description and setting

Well proportioned two storey three bay farmhouse with front elevation (formerly) in the Georgian style. Two storey kitchen return giving an L shaped plan. Severely renovated with fine fanlight over entrance being the only indication of former character. New timber windows, new door, dry dash rendering, slated roof. Kitchen return containing one window with a single storey pitched extension containing a door.

Good vernacular stone two storey barn in courtyard to rear. Three pointed arch to coach house. Exterior steps to first floor level. Small storage cupboard behind door under steps. All whitewashed, building slated with traditional gable and eaves details.

Circular gateposts to front of house unchanged.

Historical information

A building is indicated on this site on the 1831 map.

The present occupants inherited the house 17 years ago (1980) and renovated the building with a Housing Executive Grant at that time. The fanlight was the only original window they were ‘allowed to keep’.

Described on 25th August 1970 as: ' a two storey house with harled and whitened walls and slated roof. All windows are D/H with full g.b. The entrance is recessed in a semi-circular opening with panelled door and curvilinear glazing in fanlight. The gable on the roadside is rendered. There is a one storey gabled annex to the rear 3 windows wide.'

References:

Primary Sources:
OS Map 1st Edition 1831 Londonderry sheet 23,
Present occupants(1997)

Criteria for listing: architectural interest

Not listed

Evaluation

An example of an early 19th century farmhouse greatly marred by work carried out under a Housing Executive ‘improvement grant’.

Nearby in the register

Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.

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