15 Cullion Road

The Department's description

Exterior description and setting

Two storey/ three bay house up lane to E of Cullion Road. To front is a small farmyard and outbuilding.

Pitched natural slate roof with rendered skews and two rendered and coped chimneys – one to each gable. Advanced rendered eaves course. No rainwater goods. Walls are lime rendered random granite rubble with cement rendered base course.

Principal elevation faces E. Left bay has an entrance windbreak porch set to right with natural slate lean-to roof. Walls as façade. Left and right cheeks are blank; t+g sheeted door to front. To left of porch is an 8/8 window. Aligned above is a smaller 2/2 (vertically divided) window. All windows have exposed box sliding sashes with horns and painted granite cills.

Centre bay has an 8/8 window (smaller than left bay window) at ground floor. Right bay has a pair of 4/4 sliding sashes (without horns) in a common opening. First floor has five equally spaced openings in line with those below. First, third and fifth have 2/2 (vertically divided) sliding sashes; the remainder are infilled and rendered over (only cills visible).

Left gable is blank with cement rendered plinth to base. Gable is abutted by a single storey/ two bay narrower outbuilding. Walls and roof as main block.

Middle bay has a small window at ground floor to under-stair cupboard. Left bay of rear elevation has a 2/2 window to each floor. Right bay has a window opening to ground floor and a 2/2 window to first floor.

Right gable is blank and abutted by a narrower single storey outbuilding (of no interest).

In front yard is a single storey/ three bay outbuilding with lean-to to right gable. A pair of wrought-iron gates with twist finials on cylindrical gate posts lead to former garden at rear of house. Similar gates and posts lead from yard into front field.

Historical information

Shown on the 1834 OS 6” map. Described in the 1835 first valuation book as measuring 40ft x 22ft by 15ft high and as a “good strong house built by Mr Newell” (although occupied at that time by John McConville). These statistics correspond with the present building.

Primary sources:

1. OS 6" map, 1st edition (1834) Co Down sheet 47 (PRONI OS 6/3/47/1)
2. PRONI First valuation book, VAL 1B/353, p.131.

Criteria for listing: architectural interest

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Criteria for listing: historic interest

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Evaluation

This early 19thC vernacular house has a number of formal features, e.g. separate staircase contained within its own bay rather than within the kitchen. It is set in a pleasant farmyard with original features including cylindrical piers and wrought iron gates.