The Cottage

The Department's description

Exterior description and setting

A much-altered two-storey, three bay house, aligned roughly N-S on the W side of Main Street.

Pitched concrete tiled roof with pebble-dashed chimney to each gable. Boxed timber eaves carry plastic rainwater goods.

Principal elevation faces E. All walls are pebble-dashed with smooth rendered and painted basecourse. Window openings have been enlarged and now contain modern timber side-hung casement windows with painted concrete cills. Modern glazed timber entrance door just left of centre.

Left gable is abutted by a single-storey addition detailed as house. Its street facing elevation has a door to left end and a window to its right. Exposed section is blank.

Right gable has a window to ground floor centre.

Rear elevation of is detailed as façade with modern casement windows and is abutted by a single-storey extension with flat roof, to left of centre – all of no interest.

Historical information

A building shown at this location on the 1835 OS map is captioned as a Police Barracks. It is described in the First Valuation book as measuring 29ft x 20ft x 11ft. By the 1859 edition, the barracks had moved elsewhere in the village. The site’s evolutionary development could not, however, be determined from the second and subsequent Valuation Books as the plot number on the Valuation maps is unspecific.

Primary sources:

1. OS 6” map, 1st edition, Co Armagh sheet 31 (PRONI OS 6/2/31/1).
2. First Valuation book, 1836 (PRONI VAL 1B/247, p.57b).
3. OS 6” map, 2nd edition, Co Armagh sheet 31 (PRONI OS 6/2/31/2).

Criteria for listing: architectural interest

Not listed

Criteria for listing: historic interest

Not listed

Evaluation

A much-altered two-storey, three bay house of little architectural or historic interest.