5 Ballintemple Road

The Department's description

Exterior description and setting

Two-storey/ two-bay vernacular house with left gable to road and two-storey outbuilding to right gable. It is aligned E-W on E side of Ballintemple Road.

Pitched natural slate roof with red machine-brick chimney to internal party wall with gable to outbuilding. Slightly advanced eaves course with timber eaves board. No rainwater goods. Walls are lime-rendered rubble stone.

Principal elevation faces S. Set to extreme right-end of right bay is a projecting porch (detailed as house) with door opening to front face; left and right cheeks are blank. To its left, each bay has a window to each floor with exposed boxes and granite cills. Ground floor windows have the remains of 6/3 sliding sash and those to first floor contain the remains of a 2/2 sash.

Right gable is completely abutted by a similarly detailed two-storey outbuilding. Its S elevation has a t+g sheeted door to right-end and a boarded window (cill-less) to centre. First floor has two window openings; that to left is set slightly left of ground floor window. Its right gable has a t+g sheeted loading door accessed by external steps.

Rear elevation of house has a 2/2 sliding sash first floor centre of left bay. Rear of outbuilding has two ground floor windows; that to left is a top-hung timber casement window and that to right is a 2/2 sliding sash.

Left gable is blank.

Setting.

House is enclosed to road by a rubble stone wall with field stone copings. A modern metal gate leads into a small front garden; opposite house is a single-storey four bay outbuilding with pitched natural slate roof and lime rendered rubble stone walls. There is an opening to each bay on its N elevation. From left: a t+g sheeted door, a door opening, 3x1 metal framed window, and a large door opening with the remains of t+g sheeted doors at extreme right. Its left gable has a t+g sheeted loading door (to loft in left bay). Rear elevation has a door opening to all but right bay. The right gable is blank and faces the road.

Historical information

A building with the ground plan of the present one is first shown on the 1861 OS 6” map. An outbuilding was added in 1873 and it was raised to its present two-storey form in 1898.

The first survey slide shows this building to have whitewashed walls with sash windows, 6/3 to ground floor and 2/2 to first floor. A whitewashed boundary wall to road with circular piers supporting a pair of wrought-iron gates. The outbuilding contained two t+g sheeted doors to ground floor and two 1/1 sliding sash windows to first floor.

Primary sources

1. OS 6” map, 2nd edition, Co Armagh, sheet 29 (PRONI OS 6/2/29/2).
2. Valuation Revision book, 1873 (PRONI VAL 12B/15/15A, p.67).
3. Valuation Revision book, 1898 (PRONI VAL 12B/15/15C, p.94).
4. 1st survey slide undated.

Criteria for listing: architectural interest

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Criteria for listing: historic interest

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Evaluation

Two-storey/ two-bay vernacular house. An evolved vernacular house with gable to road but not of special architectural or historic interest.