17 Cloghinny Road

The Department's description

Exterior description and setting

A single-storey/ three bay vernacular dwelling with one-and-a-half-storey outbuilding to right gable, aligned W-E on a lane to the N of Cloghinny Road.

Pitched natural slate roof with brick chimney to left gable and at party wall between bays 1 and 2 (from left). Rainwater goods are gone. Walls are whitewashed rubble stone. All windows are top-hung timber casements with concrete cills.

Principal elevation faces S. Left and right bays each have a window to centre. Central bay has a window to left (slightly taller than others) and a windbreak porch to right. Porch has a natural slate cat-slide roof and a t+g sheeted door to front face. Right and left cheeks are blank.

Left gable is blank.

Rear elevation has a window at right on central bay.

Right gable is completely abutted by the adjoining one-and-a-half-storey outbuilding, detailed as house with brick chimney to left gable. All openings are t+g sheeted. S elevation has a central door to ground floor with a window opening to first floor. The exposed left gable is blank. Rear elevation has a door to upper level, accessed by twelve external granite steps. Its right gable is abutted by a single storey (similarly detailed) shed. Exposed section is blank. Shed has central door to S elevation and is abutted to extreme right end by a whitewashed boundary wall. Right gable is blank. Rear elevation has a timber shuttered window with granite cill.

Setting

To front is a small domestic yard completely enclosed by a whitewashed rubble stone boundary wall with cement rendered coping (this is broken by outbuildings to either end). The yard is accessed by wrought-iron gates to N and W of site, and a metal farm gate to E – all supported on either square-in-section or circular-in-section gate piers with cement pyramidal/conical copings. To rear is a similarly detailed single-storey dwelling; a number of outbuildings and a rubble stone well (others now in poor condition).

Historical information

Although a building is shown at this spot on the 1835, it does not share the ground plan of the present one. It is probably of mid 19th century date as it is shown on the 1862 map and its rateable valuation (15 shillings) does not change thereafter.

Primary sources:
1. OS 6” map, 1st edition, Co Armagh sheet 28 (PRONI OS 6/2/28/1).
2. OS 6” map, 2nd edition, Co Armagh sheet 28 (PRONI OS 6/2/28/2).
3. Second Valuation, Co Armagh, Newry Union (published 1864; MA dates from 1862).
4. Valuation Revision books (PRONI VAL 12B/15/13A-D).

Criteria for listing: architectural interest

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Criteria for listing: historic interest

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Evaluation

A particularly long single-storey three bay vernacular dwelling with a one-and-a-half storey outbuilding to right gable, reflecting the tradition to extend both upwards and longitudinally. It is one of a group of three dwellings along with miscellaneous outbuildings; now in various stages of dereliction.