5 Cloughmore Terrace

The Department's description

Exterior description and setting

House to right of centre in a terrace of eight identical three storey/ two bay late 19thC houses on N side of Church Street.

Pitched natural slate roof with large rendered chimney to left end of ridge shared with adjoining house. Moulded render eaves course carries ogee gutters. Walls are lined rendered and painted. All windows to front elevation are uPVC top hung casements. Continuous cill course at first floor level. Left bay is narrower than the right one and contains the main entrance set in a semicircular-headed opening with moulded render architrave and with decorative key block.. Four panelled door with beaded muntin and raised, fielded and bolection moulded panels. Over is a plainly glazed radial fanlight. Directly above is a single 1/1 window to each upper floor, that to first floor has an architrave as the doorcase but that to second floor is plain and slightly diminished in height.

The right bay has a canted bay window rising full height, with canted roof tied into main roof and sharing common eaves. Each face of the bay window has a 1/1 window. Those to second floor are slightly diminished in height.

Small front garden is enclosed by a finely dressed granite dwarf wall which carries modern wrought metal railings.

Left gable is party wall with adjacent house (HB16/11/033D).

Rear elevation

Right gable is party wall with adjacent house (HB16/11/033F).

Rear (NE) elevation is abutted to right bay by a two-storey return. Walls of exposed rear elevation are rendered and painted to ground floor only. At left, each floor has a 1/1 modern uPVC window with painted cill. That to second floor is diminished in height. All windows are as these unless otherwise stated. At right between first and second floors (over return roof) is a similar half-landing window.

Return has a pitched natural slate roof with cement rendered chimney to centre of ridge. Its advanced eaves course carries plastic rainwater goods. Walls are rendered and painted to ground floor only.

Its left cheek has a number of uPVC casement windows. To ground floor (from L-R) is a timber door, to centre is a wide window, to right of centre is a second UPVC window. First floor has three UPVC windows. End gable of return is blank and is abutted by a single storey lean-to outbuilding.

Enclosing rear of the small domestic yard is a single-storey outbuilding with mono-pitched natural slate roof. Walls are rendered and painted. There is a single window and a door on its yard-facing wall.

Historical information

First appears in the Valuation Book entry for 1879.

Primary sources:
1. Valuation Revision book (PRONI, VAL/12B/22/23B, p.141).

Criteria for listing: architectural interest

A. Style
B. Proportion
D. Plan Form
H-. Alterations detracting from building
I. Quality and survival of Interior
J. Setting
K. Group value

Criteria for listing: historic interest

X. Local Interest

Evaluation

One of eight houses in a terrace on Church Street. The terrace has been affected by alterations but is still a significant set piece in the town. This house This house has had all of its front windows altered although it is little altered in the main and retains most of its original fabric.