12 Cloghinny Road

The Department's description

Exterior description and setting

A two-storey/ three bay vernacular house (with miscellaneous outbuildings) aligned N-S on the W side of Cloghinny Road.

Pitched natural slate roof and tiled verges. Brick chimney to each gable and one between left and central bays. Half-round metal rainwater goods. Walls are lined cement-rendered with stepped stucco quoins to façade. All windows are 2/2 exposed box sliding sashes with horns and granite cills (unless otherwise stated). Those to facade are set within reveals with stop-end chamfered heads.

Principal elevation faces E to road. Right and left bays each have a window to each floor (those to right have cast-iron bars over). Central bay has a windbreak porch to right and a window at each floor to left. Porch has a flat cement coped roof with decorative cement-rendered parapet. Front E face has a four-panelled timber door; right and left cheeks are blank. Left gable is abutted by a single-storey outbuilding with rubble stone walls and pitched corrugated-metal roof; exposed section is blank.

Rear elevation has a two windows to ground floor – one to central and right bays and a window to each bay at first floor.

Right gable is blank.

Outbuildings:

To E of site are two rubble stone outbuildings with pitched natural slate roofs, each placed with left gable directly to the road. That to N is detailed as follows: N face has a pair of t+g sheeted doors set to left and a t+g sheeted door to right with a small timber infilled window opening above. W gable has an infilled loading door. Rear elevation has a small window opening to ground floor centre. E gable (to road) is blank.

That to S is longer with skewed gable to road. Its yard (N) face has several brick trimmed door and window openings including a door to upper floor (set to left of centre) accessed by external steps. W gable is blank. Rear elevation has a window opening to first floor, set to left of centre. E (road) gable has a loading door to upper floor.

Setting:

The house is set close to the road in a mature site with small garden to front. It is enclosed from the road by a cement-rendered wall and accessed by a pair of wrought-iron gates supported on square-in-section cement-rendered gate piers with pyramidal copings.

Historical information

A building is shown at this spot on the 1862 OS map. Its subsequent development is uncertain as its plot number could not be determined from the Valuation map (and hence followed through in the Valuation books). It is presumed, on the basis of the available evidence, to be of mid 19th century date.

Primary sources:
1. OS 6” map, 2nd edition, Co Armagh sheet 28 (PRONI OS 6/2/28/2).

Criteria for listing: architectural interest

Not listed

Criteria for listing: historic interest

Not listed

Evaluation

A large two-storey/ three bay well-proportioned vernacular house with outbuildings. The farm is traditionally situated along the roadside and enclosed by a wall, gate piers and wrought-iron gates.