10 Drumboniff Rd

The Department's description

Exterior description and setting

Single storey/ three bay vernacular house with single bay outbuilding at left, aligned N-S on E side of Drumboniff Road.

Left bay of house has a pitched natural slate roof with a slightly higher ridge height. It has a concrete block chimney on left gable, brick eaves course and no rainwater goods. At left is a slightly lower outhouse which has a pitched natural slate roof without rainwater goods or eaves course.

Right two bays of house seem earliest and have a pitched corrugated asbestos roof with concrete skew to right and raised wallhead to left. This roof seems to have been thatched as the render at wall head is different from that on main wall. Semicircular metal rainwater goods, downpipe gone. Concrete chimney to party wall between the two bays in this section.

All walls are lime rendered random rubble, painted with painted base course.

Central bay of house has a sheeted door at left. It has a half-door with cottage latch and is set into a windbreak. This has pitched corrugated asbestos roof, rendered concrete blockwork walls, two pane glazed (part gone) window to left cheek and blank right cheek. It has a granite paved floor, t+g sheeted ceiling and bargeboards.

On wall to its right is a small 6/3 sash window without cill. Right bay of house has a larger 4/4 sash to left of centre, also cill-less.

Left bay of house seems later with a large 2/2 (vertically divided) sliding sash window with horns, brick dressings and a concrete cill.
Outbuilding to left has a sheeted door (at a lower level than those to house) with timber lintel. To its right is a small vent with t+g shutters.

Left gable of outhouse has a (rotten) sheeted loading door in gable with concrete blockwork step up from rear.

Rear wall is as facade but outbuildings are built in rounded fieldstones and elevation is blank. Left bay has a small fixed window to extreme left (later addition with cement render surround). To its right is a boarded over sash window. On central bay is a much altered opening containing a small 1/1 sliding sash with timber lintel and brick cill. To right bay is a larger 1/1 window without a cill.

A small front yard is enclosed to N and SW by small single storey outbuildings, all built in granite rubble.

That to N side has a natural slate roof and two sheeted doors to yard. To rear is a single window opening. Its W (road fronting) gable is blank, and its E gable is abutted by a smaller lean-to outbuilding with corrugated roof. The SW outbuilding is aligned N-S and has a pitched corrugated tin roof. It has two sheeted doors to yard. To its SW corner is a similar smaller outbuilding.

To road, set in a small concave sweep of painted rubble walling, is a pair of flat iron gates on decorative cement rendered piers with pyramidal caps.

Historical information

House shown at this location in 1834 OS 6” map.

Primary Sources:
1. 1st edition 6" OS map 1834 (Down sheet 48).

Criteria for listing: architectural interest

Not listed

Criteria for listing: historic interest

Not listed

Evaluation

Insufficiently special to merit listing.