30 Mountain Road

The Department's description

Exterior description and setting

A single-storey, two-bay vernacular dwelling with a one-and-a-half-storey outbuilding to left gable. It is aligned roughly W-E on the W side of Mountain Road.

Pitched natural slate roof with two brick chimneys – one to right gable of house; the other to right gable of outbuilding. No rainwater goods. All walls are whitewashed random rubble.

Principal elevation faces S. Right bay of dwelling has a windbreak porch set to left, and a 2/2 exposed box sliding sash window (with horns) and a concrete cill to right. Porch has a monopitched natural slate roof and t+g sheeted door to S face; right and left cheeks are blank. Left bay has a window detailed as before. Outbuilding has a central door to each floor – both are t+g sheeted.

Left gable of outbuilding is abutted by two side-by-side rubble stone outbuildings consisting of an animal house to left and a shed to right. The exposed section is blank. Outbuildings are single-storey and set at a lower level than house due to the sloping topography. That to the right is taller and projects beyond the S elevation of the main block. Both have a monopitched roofs – that to animal house is corrugated metal and that to the shed is natural slate.

Rear elevation of main block has a 2/2 fixed-pane window with stone cill set to left on left bay. Outbuilding has a loading door at upper level accessed by eight granite steps.

Right gable of dwelling and the exposed right gable of the outbuilding are both blank.

Opposite dwelling, to SE, is an outbuilding, detailed as house. N elevation has a large pair of t+g sheeted doors to right. Other elevations are blank. It is abutted to right by a pair of consecutively lower lean-to sheds (stepping down slope) with monopitched corrugated metal roofs. Both have a door opening to N elevation. Other faces are blank.

Setting:

The house is accessed down a steeply sloping lane, occupying a sheltered site.

Historical information

A building is shown at this location on the 1835 OS 6” map and subsequent editions.

Primary sources:
1. OS 6” map, 1st edition, 1835, Co Armagh, sheet 29 (PRONI OS 6/2/29/1).

Criteria for listing: architectural interest

Not listed

Criteria for listing: historic interest

Not listed

Evaluation

An single-storey, two-bay, direct-entry vernacular dwelling, occupying a sheltered site and retaining most of its original character and features but not of special architectural or historic interest.