24 Tannaghmore Road

The Department's description

Exterior description and setting

A detached three-bay two-storey farmhouse with attached outbuildings, built c. 1830 and located to the south side of Tannaghmore Road. The house is rectangular on plan, facing north. The roof is pitched artificial slate with brick chimneys to gable and party wall. Walling is roughcast with cement rendered corner banding and plinth. Windows are 1/1 sliding sashes with smooth rendered architraves, cills are painted masonry; windows to first floor are diminished in height.

The principal (north) elevation is symmetrical with three openings to each floor arranged about central entrance containing replacement glazed timber door.

The east gable is blank.

The rear elevation central and right bays project slightly. Ground floor has a 1/1 sliding sash window to either side, and a diminished in size 2/2 (horizontally divided) with segmental-headed top panel to left of centre. First floor has a 1/1 sash to centre. Remaining windows are replacement timber side-opening casements.

The west gable is abutted by the outbuilding, which is slightly lower and contains secondary entrance to the house at right. It is detailed as the house with t&g sheeted openings located under eaves and stable doors to ground floor. There is an attached stone trough located between openings.

Setting

The house occupies a farmyard
setting with single-storey outbuildings to side and modern barns and modern farmhouse to rear. It is bounded to the road by a roughcast boundary wall and accessed by a pair of mild steel gates on cement rendered gate piers with roughcast panels and diamond caps.

Historical information

The building appears on the first OS map of 1830, without outbuildings to east. One original outbuilding shown on this map still exists, now extended to south. No specific information is provided in the Townland Valuation, but Griffiths Valuation records the occupant as William Kenny, with land leased from Rev. William O’Neill and house, offices and land valued at £31.0.0.

Primary References:
1. PRONI OS/6/1/43/1 1st Edition OS map (1832)
2. PRONI VAL/1A/1/43 Townland Valuation Map
3. PRONI VAL/1B/185 Townland Valuation Fieldbook
6. PRONI VAL/2B/1/71A Griffiths Valuation Fieldbook
7. PRONI VAL/2A/43B Griffiths Valuation Map

Criteria for listing: architectural interest

Not listed

Criteria for listing: historic interest

Not listed

Evaluation

A solidly proportioned two-storey three-bay nineteenth century vernacular farmhouse arranged on a symmetrical plan and having most original and salient features intact. The house occupies a traditional farmyard setting. However, it is of a common type and there are other, better examples.

A solidly proportioned and well maintained two-storey three-bay nineteenth century vernacular farmhouse arranged on a symmetrical plan and having most original and salient features intact. The house occupies a traditional farmyard setting, prominently set close to the road, and thus forms an important and increasingly rare feature of the rural landscape.