House

The Department's description

Exterior description and setting

Single storey/ single bay vernacular house with gable to road on N-side of Tamnaharry Hill Road.

Pitched artificial slate roof with rendered skew and cement rendered chimney to right gable. Walls are of coursed granite and Silurian rubble between roughly dressed granite quoins. Front elevation faces W.

Front elevation has a windbreak porch set to left with a flat concrete roof with small decorative pediment. On the wall to the right is a window opening containing the remains of a sliding sash window with concrete cill.

Left gable has an infilled doorway, (possibly to be used if the house was to be extended into two bays) but is blank otherwise.

Rear elevation has a single central window opening with stone lintel and flush concrete cill (window timbers are gone). Brick used in left jamb.

Right gable is blank with red brickwork of the chimney breast tied in.
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Historical information

A building is shown on the 1834 OS 6” map. However, it does not appear in the first Valuation (c.1835), indicating that its valuation was less than £5. It may be the same building as currently exists, although the possibility of a 20th C rebuild (concrete cills and use of brick) cannot be discounted.

Primary Sources:
1. PRONI OS map 1st edition (1834), Co Down sheet 51.
2. PRONI 1st Valuation map (c.1835), VAL 1A/3/51.

Criteria for listing: architectural interest

Not listed

Criteria for listing: historic interest

Not listed

Evaluation

Very few single bay vernacular houses remain today, most having been extended at some time. This building has an inappropriate artificial slated roof and has lost its original windows; it stands isolated in a field and has lost all elements of its former setting. Consequently, it is now of little architectural or historical interest