32 Greenan Lough Road

The Department's description

Exterior description and setting

Single storey / four bay direct entry vernacular house on the E side of Grinan Lough Road.

Pitched natural slate roof with rendered red brick chimney to each gable and a third between second and third bays. Tile skews and advanced eaves course, but no rainwater goods. Walls are whitewashed and lime rendered over random rubble.

Front elevation faces W to road. All windows are 2/2 sliding sashes with horns and painted stone cills. Both end bays each have two windows, and the others each have a single window. Set to right on third bay from left is a wind break porch with pitched natural slate roof, scalloped timber bargeboard and t+g sheeted half door.

Left gable is blank

Rear elevation has door to second bay from left (head has collapsed). Otherwise blank.

Right gable is blank. Abutted by a low lean-to shed with monopitched natural slate roof and walls as main block.

Setting: At right of house, a wall encloses the back garden. It has a pair of cylindrical whitewashed gate piers with conical concrete copings supporting a pair of wrought iron gates with twisted detailing and central finial. Opposite, across road, is a range of much altered single storey outbuildings.

Historical information

A building is first shown on the 1860 OS 6” map. Unfortunately, the Second Valuation map (c.1861) is missing, so details cannot be obtained from the corresponding valuation book. Of mid 19th C date.

Primary Sources:
1. PRONI OS map 2nd edition (1860), Co Down sheet 51.

Criteria for listing: architectural interest

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Criteria for listing: historic interest

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Evaluation

Although long single-storey vernacular house is retains much of its original fabric and features, it is not of special architectural or historic interest.