49 Legananny Hall Road

The Department's description

Exterior description and setting

Detached three-bay two-storey stone former house, built c.1860, with gabled two-storey stone outbuilding. Rectangular on plan, facing southeast on a remote site located to the north of Legananny Road. Currently vacant and in storage use.

Pitched natural slate roofs with black clay ridge tiles and cement parged verges. Coursed and snecked rubblestone walling with rough hewn squared quoins. Square-headed window openings with stone lintels, stone sills and remnants of timber casement windows.

Symmetrical three-bay two-storey front elevation to dwelling with central door opening having corrugated iron to door opening and central window infilled.

Blank west gable.

Blank rear elevation except for square-headed window opening at ground floor level.

Blank east gable.

The outbuilding to the west is detailed as per the dwelling with a pair of door openings to the centre of the east elevation and a further door opening above with vertically-sheeted timber door. The north gable is abutted by a flight of rough hewn stone steps to a square-headed door opening with vertically-sheeted timber door. The west elevation has a single opening at loft level and two diminutive openings at ground level. The south gable is abutted by a single-storey addition with a blocked up door opening to the front and a further door opening to the east.

Setting

Located on a hillside to the north off Legananny Hall Road accessed via a long winding lane enclosed by rubblestone walls.

Roof Natural slate
RWG None
Walling Rubblestone
Windows timber

Historical information

The current house dates from the early 1860s and is first shown on the second edition OS map of 1860. The contemporary Griffith’s Valuation (1863) gives the occupier as James Westerman, who leases the property from the Early of Annesley. The house, which was situated on a farm of over 14 acres, had recently been built and is initially noted as unfinished. The valuation was £2 and a rent was paid by the tenant of £6.10s.

In 1872 the house passed to the Bradford family, first David Bradford (1872), then Thomas Bradford (1877) and Alexander Bradford (1889). In 1900, the Bradfords sublet the house to James Dalzell, a linen weaver, perhaps operating a handloom in the house, who lived with his wife, a dressmaker, and four teenage daughters. The older three were working as seamstresses, while only the 12-year-old was still receiving schooling. (1901 census) The house had four rooms and was deemed to be of the second class, as were the majority of houses in the vicinity.

The house appears to have been vacant from 1909 to 1915 when John Dickson became the occupier. By the time of the First General Revaluation in 1933/4 the building, owned by Adam and then John Martin, was no longer inhabited and was valued as an agricultural outbuilding at £1.10s

References:

Primary Sources

1. PRONI OS/6/3/35/1 First Edition OS Map 1833-4
2. PRONI OS/6/3/35/2 Second Edition OS map 1860
3. PRONI OS/6/3/35/3 Third Edition OS Map 1901-2
4. PRONI OS/6/3/35/4 Fourth Edition OS Map 1902-20
5. PRONI VAL/2/B/3/51A Griffith’s Valuation (1863)
6. PRONI VAL/12/B/16/20A-E Annual Revisions (1864-1930)
7. PRONI VAL/3/C/4/3 First General Revaluation (1933-57)
8. PRONI VAL/3/D/4/3/Q/7 First General Revaluation (1933-57)

Criteria for listing: architectural interest

Not listed

Criteria for listing: historic interest

Not listed

Evaluation

Detached three-bay two-storey stone former house, built c.1860, with gabled two-storey stone outbuilding. Some historic character and fabric survive, including the plan form. However, much detailing has been lost and although of interest as a good group, the buildings does not meet the statutory and policy tests as a building of special architectural or historic interest.