Annvale House

The Department's description

Exterior description and setting

This building has been demolished.

Two-storey (+ attic)/ three-bay symmetrical house facing south on the west side of Upper Damolly Rd.

Roof is hipped with natural slates with leaded hips and ridges and overhanging eaves with timber fascia. Cast-iron skylight each end hips. Chimneys at either side of central bay, each lined rendered and coped. Semicircular metal gutters.

Unless otherwise stated, all walls are lined render with V-channelled stucco quoins. Likewise, all window openings have painted granite cills.

At ground floor middle is a one-storey porch, with pitched natural slate roof and decorative bargeboards. Door on right cheek is four panelled grained timber with bolection mouldings. Gable of porch has 1/1 sliding sash window. Identical window to end bays of main block, and three to first floor (in line with openings below).

Left and right elevations each have a single 6/6 sliding sash window to each floor.

Rear wall is dashed and painted. A two storey return abuts central bay, and a single storey return abuts right bay (as viewed from rear). Exposed section of wall at left is line rendered and blank.

Return to central bay: flat roof abutting main house just below eaves level. Walls are painted and rendered. Rear elevation is blank and abutted a ground floor right by porch (see later.) Right cheek is abutted at ground floor by the second return. At first floor of this cheek is a small 1/1 sliding sash window. On left cheek of return, at ground floor left, is a two paned metal casement window with painted cement cill. To its right is a 1/1 sliding sash window. Above, at centre, is a single 6/6 sliding sash window.

The second return has a hipped natural slate roof with tall rendered chimney rising from centre of ridge; roof runs down to valley at central return; north end forms catslide over porch (see later). Its walls are dashed except for right cheek which is line rendered (a continuation of left elevation of house). End wall is blank. Right cheek has a pair of unequal 2/2 sliding sashes to left side. To right of centre is a large metal casement window with painted concrete cill, to right of which is a t+g sheeted door. Left cheek of second return partly abutted by first return.

In angle between the returns is a small porch, approximately hal width of central return, in the left cheek of which is a t+g sheeted door with three paned mouth-organ transom. The remaining exposed face of the porch has a small 1/1 sliding sash window. The exposed section of the second return’s left cheek has a single 2/2 sliding sash window.

Setting:

The front garden has been reduced in size to facilitate site access. Consequently, the railings have been removed and their chamfered granite base wall relocated closer to the house. To rear is a small garden enclosed by a high profiled metal fence. Area at back, formerly an orchard, is enclosed by a random rubble wall. To left of house is a small yard containing outhouses of no interest.

Historical information

First depicted on 1858 OS map, being captioned as Anneville House. Implies that erected between then and 1834 (first OS map), therefore making it a mid-19th century construction.

Demolished some time after Second Survey visit - post-1998.

Sources:

1. PRONI OS 6/3/46/2 OS 6" map, 2nd edition (1858) Co Down sheet 46

Criteria for listing: architectural interest

A. Style
B. Proportion
C. Ornamentation
D. Plan Form
H-. Alterations detracting from building

Criteria for listing: historic interest

X. Local Interest

Evaluation

Two-storey (+ attic)/ three-bay symmetrical house. Naively proportioned, representing a ‘pattern book’ adaptation of classical architecture to an essentially vernacular building. Surviving in virtually original state, it retains most of its historic fabric and is an interesting example of vernacular styling copying formal architecture.