Farmhouse a few fields to rear of

The Department's description

Exterior description and setting

Small single-storey/ two-bay dwelling. High up, on the edge of the mountains, it sits sheltered on the hillside within a complex of overgrown fields and faces south-east.

It has a coped pitched corrugated metal roof with a random rubble chimney on its left gable. Walls are in random granite rubble fieldstones.

The south east elevation has a central (metal) door with a two paned fixed window to either side, now protected by sheet-metal shutters (bolted through timber window frame). All the other elevations are plain.

Historical information

A building is shown at this location on the 1834 OS 6” map.

The property has been used as a holiday cottage since the 1940s; prior to that was used for agricultural storage. It is believed to be the only survivor of a 19th century eviction clearance. A complex field system and the foundations of other dwellings are to be seen further down the hill.

Source:
1. PRONI – OS 6/3/49/1 (1834 OS map).

Criteria for listing: architectural interest

Not listed

Criteria for listing: historic interest

Not listed

Evaluation

This building probably began life as a single roomed dwelling. The wall dividing the kitchen and bedroom seems too thick for an internal wall, suggesting that it was once an external gable. The bedroom is of poorer construction, its gable and rear wall containing little mortar in the joints. Large corner stones can be seen on the left gable and at the doorway; these were typically used to mark the corners of buildings, which would substantiate the single room hypothesis. It is of some historical interest in being the last upstanding house in this locality, but has insufficient architectural merit to justify listing.