15 Lurgan Road

The Department's description

Exterior description and setting

Detached three-bay one and a half storey rendered house, built c.1900, possibly incorporating earlier fabric. Rectangular on plan facing south with single-storey rendered extension to rear. Located on the north side of Lurgan Road close to the village of Aghalee within its own small plot.

Pitched natural slate roof with clay ridge tiles and pair of redbrick chimneystacks to either gable end. Cast-iron guttering on iron brackets to rendered eaves course and cast-iron downpipes. Painted smooth rendered walling with projecting plinth course to front elevation, rough-cast rendered to remaining elevations. Square-headed window openings with painted concrete sills and timber sash windows with exposed sash boxes.

Asymmetrical front elevation is three windows wide with an off-centre square-headed door opening all having lugged smooth render surrounds and horizontally-glazed 2/2 timber sash windows. Replacement timber glazed door opening onto short gravel drive.

West gable has a randomly-placed square-headed window opening to each floor with smooth render surrounds and timber casement windows.

Rear elevation abutted by a single-storey extension to the south with shallow pitched corrugated asbestos roof and steel casement window to the south cheek. The north end is abutted by a rendered shed having single-pitched corrugated iron roof and sheeted timber door.

North gable has a pair of square-headed window openings to the upper floor with timber casement windows.

Setting:
Set within its own grounds on the north side of Lurgan Road enclosed by hedgerow with short grave drive. The plot extends northwards along Lurgan Road.

Roof Natural slate
RWG Cast-iron
Walling Smooth / rough-cast render
Windows Original timber sash / casement

Historical information

Field inspection suggests that the dwelling was constructed c. 1900 on the site of, or incorporating, an earlier dwelling which possessed a similar layout. This earlier dwelling first appears on the 1832 edition of the Ordnance Survey maps for the townland of Killough in Aghalee Parish where it is depicted as a small oblong building situated on the modern Lurgan road between Aghagallon Bridge to its west and the local constabulary barracks to the east, and across the road from a local graveyard (now built over). There was no alteration to the layout of the property over the latter editions of the Ordnance Survey maps (1858-1921). The house is not specifically recorded in Griffith’s Valuation of 1859 which records nine small properties in the area all of which were let by a Mr. James Turtle and were valued between £1 10s. and 5s.

The current Ordnance Survey map of 1965 shows no discernible alteration to the building or the surrounding area; however, a number of modern dwellings have since been constructed in the vicinity of the cottage. The cottage continues to be occupied and is in a good state of preservation.

References

Primary Sources

1. PRONI OS/6/1/62/1 – First Edition Ordnance Survey map 1832
2. PRONI OS/6/1/62/2 – Second Edition Ordnance Survey map 1858
3. PRONI OS/6/1/62/3 – Third Edition Ordnance Survey map 1900-01
4. PRONI OS/6/1/62/4 – Fourth Edition Ordnance Survey map 1920-21
5. PRONI VAL/2/B/1/58B – Griffith’s Valuation 1859
6. Ordnance Survey Map 163-8 (1965)

Criteria for listing: architectural interest

Not listed

Criteria for listing: historic interest

Not listed

Evaluation

Detached three-bay one and a half storey rendered house, built c.1900, on the site of or incorporating the fabric of an earlier dwelling. A modest rural dwelling of early twentieth-century appearance, retaining its original external aspect and some detailing to the interior. Although of interest it is relatively late for a vernacular type building is not considered of sufficient architectural interest to merit listing.

General comments

This record was completed without access to original source material held by the Public Record Office of Northern Ireland.