23/25 Kinallen Road

The Department's description

Exterior description and setting

Single storey vernacular house sited gable-end to a bend in the road that leads from Kinallen to the Dromore-Ballynahinch road, about two-thirds of a mile from the village. The building faces north.

The building is single-storey with harled and whitened or roughcast wall finishes.

The thatch roof is now covered with corrugated iron and is terminated by cement skews at the extremities. Plastic gutters are supported on rise and fall brackets. The east gable rises to a chimneystack and there are two others at intermediate points serving the hearths below.The gable chimney is plain with one clay pot; the others are corbelled and support a pair of pots each.

Starting from the left there are two vertically sliding windows with sashes divided into two vertically and with horns; a framed, ledged and sheeted door; three top-opening plastic framed windows; a modern framed and sheeted half door with small glazed pane in the upper part; and a plastic framed window.

The roof level then drops to cover a byre with a 2x3 metal window and a ledged and sheeted entrance door. Beside this a metal-sheeted door gives access to the garden. There is a sheeted opening in the gable of the byre.

Starting from the right at the rear there is a gate pillar with a modern gate, then a vertically sliding window with sashes divided into two vertically followed by four plastic framed windows.

Historical information

According to the present owner this house was built in three phases with the section nearest the roadside erected after 1832, the central section some time before 1860, with the eastern portion added in 1949. He also stated that one of the rooms of the original house was used for weaving.

The roadside section is indeed shown on the first edition OS map of 1833-34, with a longer building shown on the revised OS map of 1858. The original smaller house is not recorded in the 1835 valuation but the larger structure is recorded in that of 1862, when it contained two dwellings, occupied by a George Bryson and an Ann Bryson respectively, with both rated at £1.

A small structure that occupies the northern corner of the site is shown on both of the above maps.

References- Primary sources
1 PRONI VAL/1A/3/28 OS map, County Down sheet 52, with valuation
references, (1833 / 34-c.38)
2 PRONI VAL/2A/3/28C Revised OS map, County Down sheet 28, with valuation references, (1858-c.62)
3 PRONI VAL/2B/3/38B Second valuation, Dromore (1862)

Secondary sources
1 Information supplied by the owner, April 2001

The owner has identified three periods of building. Starting from the roadside the first house was erected after 1832. The central section is pre1860 and the right hand part was added in 1949. According to the owner one of the apartments of the first house was used for weaving.
The roadside section of the house appears on the first edition of the Ordnance Survey map of 1833 and the central part appears on the second edition of the Ordnance Survey map of 1858. A small structure that occupies the north corner of the site appears on both maps.

Criteria for listing: architectural interest

A. Style
B. Proportion
C. Ornamentation
D. Plan Form
F. Structural System
H-. Alterations detracting from building
I. Quality and survival of Interior
J. Setting

Criteria for listing: historic interest

X. Local Interest
Z. Rarity

Evaluation

A single storey, north facing, vernacular house sitting gable end to a bend in the road leading from Kinallen to the Dromore - Ballynahinch road. It is about two - thirds of a mile from Kinallen. The internal layout reflects the changes that have been made at different periods. There have been alterations but vestiges of original details remain, such as the original profiles of surrounds. A number of plastic framed windows have been inserted but the original shapes of the openings have been retained.Three phases of development can be identified in the building. The oldest phase dates from at least the early 19th. C but could be much older.