4 Trasna Road

The Department's description

Exterior description and setting

A single storey, three bay vernacular dwelling aligned NW-SE with outbuildings to front site. All located on the W side of Trasna Rd.

Roof is pitched natural slate with ridge tiles and two red brick chimneys - one to left gable and one between central and right bay. There are cement skews to each gable. Rear pitch has a small cast-iron skylight. No rainwater goods. Slates to third bay are half side lapped, with gaps between adjoining slates. Walls are lime rendered with tarred base course.

Principal elevation faces NE. Left bay has a 6/3 exposed box sliding sash window with horns and irregular stone cill. To its right is a slightly advanced windbreak porch with natural slate roof (which ties into front pitch). Its front face has a t+g sheeted door; right and left narrow cheeks are blank. Right bay has a window set to the right and detailed as before. Third bay has a central t+g sheeted door (into byre).

Left and right gables are cement-rendered and blank.

Rear elevation is built into a bank. It has a single window set left of centre.

There are two outbuildings to front site aligned roughly E-W. Both are constructed in lime-rendered rubble stone with pitched corrugated metal roofs. That to left is slightly lower. Each has a number of door openings to front (S) face, with modern doors.

Setting.

Dwelling and outbuildings are enclosed to road by a rubble stone wall, terminated at left end by a pair of cylindrical lime rendered rubble stone gate piers with concrete copings; they support a wrought-iron gate.

Historical information

Although a building is shown at this location on both the 1835 and 1861 OS maps, it appears to be on a different alignment to the present one. The Valuation revision book entry of 1871 notes an increase in the site's valuation from £1.10s.0d to £2 – a 33% increase. This may indicate a rebuild as a building with the plan form of the existing one is shown on the 1906-07 OS map.

Primary sources:
1. First edition OS 6" map, Co Armagh sheet 29, 1835 (PRONI - OS 6/2/29/1).
2. Second edition OS 6" map, Co Armagh sheet 29, 1861 (PRONI - OS 6/2/29/2).
3. Second Valuation book, 1862 (PRONI - VAL 2B/2/37H, p.20).
4. Valuation Revision book, 1871 (PRONI - VAL 12B/15/17A, p.50).

Criteria for listing: architectural interest

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Criteria for listing: historic interest

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Evaluation

A pleasantly sited direct entry vernacular dwelling with outbuildings, set within in the Ring of Gullion AONB.