61 Moygannon Road

The Department's description

Exterior description and setting

Two storey/ two bay vernacular house prominently situated on the hillside up a lane on N side of Moygannon Road. Pitched natural slate roof aligned W-E with cement rendered chimney to each gable and advanced eaves with half round metal rainwater goods. Cement rendered walls are lined and have band rusticated stepped quoins to all corners.

Principal elevation faces S. Abutting the left side of the right bay (just to right of centre) is a single storey windbreak porch. It has a gabled natural slate roof with crested terracotta ridges and decorative bargeboard (part replaced with plain timber). Its narrow cheeks are blank and its front face has a t+g sheeted door with transom over. Each bay of facade has a single window opening. Those to first floor are diminished in height. All have concrete cills and have been sheeted over with corrugated metal.

The left gable is blank and has a modern plastic soil pipe abutting its left side.

The rear elevation has no door. Windows as facade to each floor of each bay with an additional one to first floor left bay.

Right gable is blank.

Setting:
Single storey corrugated metal clad timber framed shed stands to immediate right of house.

The E side of the yard has a pair of square in section rubble granite gate posts with pyramidal copings. They support a traditional flat iron gate.

The W side of the front yard is enclosed by a single storey/ two bay outbuilding aligned N-S. It has a pitched natural slate roof and rubble granite walls. The gables and rear (W) walls are blank and the E elevation has two doors on S bay and a pair of doors to N bay (all modern).

The front of the small front yard is enclosed by a hedge and its W end has a pair of gate piers (as before) carrying one and a half flat iron gates. Long lane from road winds and is hedge lined.

Historical information

Shown on the 1834 map in its present form. Not valued in First Valuation book, suggesting a single storey thatched vernacular building. Cited in the Second Valuation of 1861 and valued at £2; offices noted as being in progress in 1863. Valuation increases to £4 in 1913, indicating a substantial refurbishment or rebuild. Its present appearance is therefore largely of early 20th C date.

Primary sources
1. OS 6” map, 1834, Co Down sheet 51 (PRONI – OS 6/3/51/1).
2. Second Valuation book, 1861 (PRONI – VAL 2B/3/57A, p.72).
3. Valuation revision book (PRONI – VAL 12B/22/25B, p.26).

Criteria for listing: architectural interest

Not listed

Criteria for listing: historic interest

Not listed

Evaluation

An attractive ‘formalised’ vernacular house in a prominent location. It is little altered externally and retains its small yard, outbuilding and gates.