Former dwelling adjacent to 62 Corliss Road, Teer, Cullyhanna, Co Armagh BT35 9BB

The Department's description

Exterior description and setting

Linear vernacular former dwelling, built c.1830 to immediate north of 62 Corliss Road, Cullyhanna, Co. Armagh. Dwelling is composed of two sections and is hearth-lobby type with entry into former kitchen through breakfront porch, and from kitchen into another room on W side with former hearth. Sloped site allows dwelling to be single-storey at west and one-and-a-half-storey at east.

Pitched natural slate roof with angled ridge tiles. Two red brick chimneystacks on ridge (one approx located in middle of western section and one on W end of eastern section) and replacement uPVC rainwater goods on plain eaves at front. Walling is painted render over rubble stone. Doors are sheeted timber and windows are a mixture of timber surrounds with plastic panes.

South-facing front elevation is asymmetrical and with four doors; that at centre has projecting slate breakfront porch. Three fixed-pane windows with timber surrounds and mixture of glass and plastic panes.

West elevation is painted rubble with former entrance to centre, now infilled with timber lintel over.

North (rear) elevation is asymmetrical with a mixture of timber and plastic windows with metal grille coverings and timber sheeted hay door to eastern end.

East elevation is painted rubble with central window opening at second storey, now infilled.

House is bounded to the front by rendered and painted walling with saddle-backed coping and decorative gate piers with pyramidal coping with wrought-iron gates. Painted rubble wall with painted wrought-iron gate running along east encloses garden area.
Painted and rendered brick and masonry outbuilding with pitched corrugated roof to south-west.

Setting
House is located on a sloped site to north of and facing towards 62 Corliss Road in a rural location approx 3 miles NW of Crossmaglen, 3 miles SW of Cullyhanna and less than 1 mile from the border with the Republic of Ireland.; 20th C bungalow to south and mono-pitched modern concrete and steel structure with rolling shutter to west of bungalow with shared tarmac and concrete yard and driveway leading to road.

Materials:
Roof: Natural slate / thatch under slate roof (original)
RWG: uPVC (replacement)
Walling: Painted render / rubble stone
Windows: Timber / plastic (replacement)

Historical information

The cottage appears on the First Edition OSNI map (1835) as being L-shaped in plan with an additional linear structure immediately south. Much similar to now, the surrounding area was predominantly rural in character, with other houses dotted around the neighbouring countryside.

By the Second Edition OSNI map (1861) the cottage is rectangular in plan and the secondary structure immediately south has been replaced with two smaller rectangular-plan buildings. These two remain in situ into the 20th Century, later being demolished by the time of the Fourth Edition map (1956).

The cottage itself extends further east come the Third Edition map (1846-62), suggesting that it was around this point that the east portion was added. The corresponding Griffith’s Valuation records state the owner of the cottage as Thomas P. Ball Esq. and the occupier as Edward Duffy. Its total value was £5, 10s, 0d.

Griffith’s records state that the Duffy family occupied a number of properties in the surrounding area and is still in possession of the cottage and modern bungalow opposite today. According to the owner of 62 Corliss Road, the cottage was last inhabited in the 1950s and is now used for storage.

References:

Primary sources
1. PRONI OS/6/2/27/1 Ordnance Survey County Series First Edition OSNI map (1835)
2. PRONI OS/6/2/27/2 Ordnance Survey County Series Second Edition OSNI map (1861)
3. PRONI OS/6/2/27/4 Ordnance Survey County Series Fourth Edition OSNI map (1956)
4. PRONI VAL/2/B/2D Griffith’s Valuation record (1865)

Criteria for listing: architectural interest

A. Style
B. Proportion
D. Plan Form
I. Quality and survival of Interior
J. Setting

Criteria for listing: historic interest

R. Age
Z. Rarity
S. Authenticity
X. Local Interest

Evaluation

Linear vernacular formerly thatched dwelling, built pre1830 to immediate north of 62 Corliss Road, approximately 3 miles SW of Cullyhanna, Co. Armagh,. The building is located on a sloping site in a rural location. The linear building is composed of two sections (single-storey to west and storey-and-a-half to east), however it is difficult to be sure of the exact evolution as it is likely that the building has been organically lengthened over time towards the east. The plan form is hearth-lobby type with entry into the kitchen, following into a room with another former hearth, a layout which is within the norms of Irish vernacular house construction. Now with a slated roof, there are remnants of thatch evident above the timber sheeted ceiling. Some original historic features remain internally, supporting the building’s significance as one of an increasingly rare typology. Of interest also is the single-storey brick and masonry outbuilding with pitched corrugated roof to south-west, and the boundary walls and gates, forming an enclosure to the front.