Bayview

The Department's description

Exterior description and setting

A detached three-bay one-and-a-half storey house, erected c.1905 and located to the east side of the Shore Road. The house is rectangular on plan with projecting gabled right bay. There is a single-storey lean-to porch in the internal angle and a lean-to return to rear.

The roof is pitched natural slate with gable chimneystacks of brick and half-round cast-iron rainwater goods. The walling is painted roughcast. The windows are 2/2 timber sashes with horns, painted reveals and painted masonry cills, unless otherwise stated.

The principal elevation faces west. The left bay has a canted bay window with stepped cornice to ground floor and a large canted dormer with glazed cheeks and slate hung sides to attic storey. The central bay is blank with lean-to porch. The right bay has a pair of 1/1 sashes to ground floor and a window to attic storey. The porch has a bolection moulded four-panelled timber entrance door with bronze knocker and knob and wall-mounted push button bell to left side.

The left and right gables are blank.

The rear elevation and the return have 6/6 sliding sash windows with horns to ground floor. The return is accessed by a replacement timber sheeted door to left cheek. The attic storey is lit by Velux rooflights.

Setting

The house is set overlooking Lough Neagh in mature tree-fringed cottage gardens with orchard to rear. There is a cast iron water pump with cowtail handle in the rear yard, with maker's mark H. McManus & Sons Randlestown [sic]. The gardens are bounded by a stream to north, which flows under the road by means of a single span rubble stone bridge with round-headed arch and rubble stone voussoirs. There is a projecting stone coping to parapet. A garden path on axis with the main entrance leads to the road, and is accessed by a decorative metal gate on pyramidal capped piers framed by curved entrance walls.

Roof: Pitched natural slate
Walls: Painted roughcast
Windows: Timber 2/2 sliding sash
Doors: Timber panelled
Rainwater goods: half-round cast-iron

Historical information

Information from the owner suggests that the building was built as a summer residence by a Francis McVeigh from Scotland. The building first appears on the 1933 edition of the OS map; it does not appear on the previous 1904 edition.

Valuations Revisions up to 1896 record a house and land leased to Francis McVeigh from Lord O'Neill, with the building valued at less than £1. By 1912, the present house appears to have been constructed by Mr McVeigh, valued at £5.10s. The 1926 revision is unchanged, although ownership has been transferred to John Hamill.

The current owner suggests that a mass path crosses the property, leading to the church at Cargin (HB20/01/013).

References:

Primary Sources:
1. PRONI OS/6/1/48/3 Third edition OS map (1904)
2. PRONI OS/6/1/48/4 Fourth edition OS map (1933)
3. PRONI VAL/12B/1/10C Valuations Revision (1882-1896)
4. PRONI VAL/12B/1/10D Valuations Revision (1896-1912)

Secondary Sources:
1. Information from current owner.

Criteria for listing: architectural interest

A. Style
B. Proportion
C. Ornamentation
D. Plan Form
I. Quality and survival of Interior
J. Setting

Criteria for listing: historic interest

X. Local Interest

Evaluation

A detached three-bay one-and-a-half storey house, erected c.1905. Bayview is a neatly proportioned Edwardian house of considerable character, prominently located close to the road in a mature garden setting. The house is built in the Scottish manner with a generous dormer and other elements characteristic of the period. As such it is unusual in both its style and survival and is a good representative of the Scottish connection hereabouts. It is well-sited and with its setting makes a pleasing whole. The attendant stone culvert and water pump are also of interest.