5 Sunday Well Road

The Department's description

Exterior description and setting

Two storey gabled farm house of perhaps c.1835, somewhat modernised and extended in recent times. The property is situated to the SE of the Sunday Well Road, c.2 miles E of Crossgar.

The front (SE) façade is symmetrical and faces away from the road. In the centre of the ground floor of the façade there is an elliptical arched entrance with glazed PVC door, fanlight and sidelights. To the left of the doorway is a window with PVC frame (all the frames are PVC but the openings appears largely original). To the right of the doorway is another window, with three more (slightly smaller) to the first floor.

The SW gable has a window to the left on the ground floor and one to the right on the first floor. A small modern flat roofed ‘porch’ extension, with large windows and a doorway, is attached to the very left hand edge of the ground floor. The NE gable has a window to the left on the ground and first floors.

The rear has been extended on several occasions. To the right is a two level gabled return which has two small upper level windows to the gable (and a ground level boiler house projection), a window to the right on the NE face and another to the left on the SW face. To the right side of the SW face there is the small flat roofed porch (see above). To the left on the NE face there is a two storey flat roofed [?a water tank] extension with various sized windows to the NE and a doorway to the NW. The exposed (left hand) section of the rear façade of the main house is blank.

The entire façade is covered in rough cast and (mainly) painted. The main roof and that to the gabled return are covered in natural slate. The main house has a rendered chimney stack to each gable and a tall painted brick stack to the return gable. PVC rw goods.

To the SW of the house is an extensive collection of outbuildings, including a part single, part two storey, L shaped block.

Historical information

Buildings are shown on this general site on the OS map of 1834, but none match the plan and position of the present house exactly. The revised map of 1859, however, shows a house in the same position as the present property, a building which is undoubtedly that which the valuation records of 1837 record as a newly built two storey building with a return. Thus the house we see today was probably constructed c.1835, and probably by a James Harper, who was noted as resident in 1837.

The Harpers were still in possession of the house in 1861, but are not mentioned in a list of farmers in the area in 1886.

The extension to the north east side of the return was added some time prior to 1974, but the small porch to the SW dates from some time after this.

References- Primary sources
1 PRONI OS/1/3/24 OS map, 1st ed. 1834, Co. Down 24.
2 PRONI VAL/1B/336 p.17 First valuation, Killyleagh, 1837.
3 PRONI OS/6/3/24/2 OS map, 1st rev., 1859, Co. Down 24.
4 PRONI Second valuation, Killyleagh, 1861. [In print in PRONI search room and Linen Hall Library.]

Criteria for listing: architectural interest

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Criteria for listing: historic interest

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Evaluation

Two storey farm house of possibly c.1835, with modern extensions to the rear and PVC window frames and doors throughout.