5 Loup Road

The Department's description

Exterior description and setting

Detached three-bay two-storey farmhouse erected c.1850, now vacant. The house faces south and is located to the north of the Loup Road. Rectangular on plan, with a pair of single-storey extensions to the rear.

The roof is pitched natural slate with overhanging eaves, painted timber fascia and bargeboards on profiled purlin ends. Chimneys are corbelled stretcher bond polychrome brick. Walls are roughcast rendered with painted smooth rendered reveals, chamfered quoins, plinth and band linking first floor cills. Windows are painted timber sliding sash (horizontally divided) 2/2 at ground floor and 1/2 at first floor and have painted stone sills unless otherwise stated.

The principal south elevation is three-bay with central entrance door. The door is a modern six-panel mahogany door with rectangular fanlight above. There are windows to either side with three windows to first floor; cills are linked by a smooth plaster band.

The west gable has one 1/1 sliding sash window to the north at ground floor level.

The north rear elevation is asymmetrical two-bay with a first floor window off-set to the right from a central window and ground floor door. The door is vertically sheeted and beaded timber.

The east gable has one 1/1 sliding sash window to the north at ground floor level but the remainder of the elevation is obscured by ivy.

The single storey extensions have pitched slate roofs, corbelled eaves and roughcast walling. The extension to the east has two replacement 1/2 sliding sash windows in the east elevation.

Setting

A low-level roughcast wall with saddleback coping encloses the front lawned garden. This garden is accessed through a mild steel gate hung off square pillars with pyramidal caps. A concrete path runs from the gate to the entrance door and also along the south elevation leading onto a concrete lane which allows access to the rear yard. The rear yard to the north is enclosed by pitched and lean-to single-storey outhouses running east-west and a wall to the west.

Roof covering Natural slate
Walling Roughcast with smooth rendered details
Windows Timber 2/2 vertically sliding sash horizontally divided
Rainwater goods Cast-iron

Historical information

On the first edition OS Map of 1832, there are two detached buildings on the site. The arrangement which appears today is first recorded on the second edition OS map of 1857.

References:

Primary Sources

1. PRONI OS/6/1/42/1, 1st edition OS Map, Co. Antrim, 42, 1832-4
2. PRONI OS/6/1/42/2, 2nd edition OS Map, Co. Antrim, 42, 1857
3. PRONI OS/6/1/42/4, 4th edition OS Map, Co. Antrim 42, 1933

Criteria for listing: architectural interest

Not listed

Criteria for listing: historic interest

Not listed

Evaluation

Detached three-bay two-storey farmhouse erected c.1850. The farmhouse is an honest example of a building of this period, having its original plainly detailed features and simple finishes. The horizontally divided sliding sash windows and brick chimney details are of interest. This house and its setting are a good example of a rural smallholding, once common, now increasingly rare.