9 Cavan Rd

The Department's description

Exterior description and setting

1½ storey / three bay symmetrical 19th century house with single storey return to rear. Set with gable to road on S side of Cavan Road.

Pitched natural slate roof with clay ridges and modern boxed eaves. Modern concrete coped chimney to either gable and similar on party wall between left and central bays (all have two pots). Rear pitch has two modern roof lights. Semicircular plastic rainwater goods.

Front elevation is NW facing. Walls are lined lime render, painted, with raised stucco quoins to each corner. Main entrance to central bay has a granite threshold and a modern stained timber door, sidelights and fanlight. All are set within the original semi-elliptical headed doorway.

Left and right bays each have a modern plastic double glazed 1/1 window with painted granite cill.

Left gable of house is detailed as façade with a modern 1/1 timber top hung attic window at left.

Rear elevation is abutted to left half by a modern extension (rebuild of an original one). Remaining wall of main house (to right of extension) is lined rendered and has two modern top-hung windows; left one is timber and right one is plastic.

Return has a pitched artificial slate roof which ties into rear pitch of main roof, but with lower ridge. Modern eaves and rainwater goods as main block. Its walls are of painted cement-rendered concrete blockwork. All windows and door to return are modern stained timber.

Right gable of main block is detailed as front elevation with a modern plastic double glazed casement to ground floor right and small steel framed casement in gable at first floor.

Setting
To front of house is a small garden enclosed by a beech hedge with a wrought iron pedestrian gate (mid 19th c) hung on one-piece octagonal granite posts with conical tops. Yard to rear of house is enclosed by two ranges of much altered single storey outbuildings, all with corrugated asbestos roofs and whitewashed walls. This complex has been extended further to south with modern agricultural buildings.

Historical information

No buildings are shown on this site on the 1st edition OS map (1834). Interestingly, Cavan Cottage is explicitly cited where Cavan House now stands (to north of this site). The 2nd edition OS map (1859) shows the house (with rear return) and an outbuilding to its SE. This indicates a mid 19th century construction date. It is named on the 1902 6” map.

The 1972 HMBB survey card states: “A rendered cottage with quoins. The roof is slated, there are three chimneys, recessed in an elliptical arched opening with radial glazed fanlight and patterned sidelights. Windows either side of entrance are 12 pane sashed plus margins. Up dated at rear. Three bay façade.”

The slide of the same time shows a four-panelled 19th c door with four paned sidelights with side margins. Windows are 6/6 sashes with side margin panes. Current occupant (1999) states that the house was modernised in 1993.

Primary Sources:
1. 1st edition OS map Down Sheet 42 (1834).
2. 3rd edition OS map Down Sheet 42 (1901-2).
3. HMBB Survey Card dated 13/09/1972.
4. HMBB Survey Slide dated 13/09/1972.
5. Occupant in 1999.

Criteria for listing: architectural interest

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Criteria for listing: historic interest

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Evaluation

Retains few features of any architectural or historical merit.