7 The Village

The Department's description

Exterior description and setting

Attached three-bay two-storey rendered house with classical details, built c.1820, adjoined to (and now incorporating) a single remaining slightly lower house (of former terrace of six), built c.1800, set on the south side of the main street and located near the centre of the village.

The house is double-pile, with rear pile having lower ridge. Roofs are pitched slate with painted timber bargeboards; walls are roughcast over chamfered plinth, except the block-marked front (west) elevations and the south gables. Openings are square-headed, (unless otherwise stated), and all windows are painted timber and have rendered masonry sills.

The principal northeast elevation consists of a central entrance, flanked by a window. Corners are defined by flush rendered V-jointed quoins. Windows to the side bays are bipartite 1/1 sashes; those to the first floor have wallhead dormers over with fretted bargeboards. First floor centre bay has a bipartite side-hung casement. The principal entrance is painted timber and glazed door with multiple raised and fielded panels and margin overlights. Doorcase consists of two pilasters, which are surmounted by a full Doric entablature containing both triglyphs and guttae, stone threshold accessed by a single step. The principal elevation for No. 9 has been remodelled and is now three windows wide. All have stop-ended chamfered architraves; 6/6 timber sashes to the ground floor and 3/6 to the first floor.

The northwest gable is double and overlooks the driveway. Bipartite window to right, detailed as before but with stop-ended label mould. Two 2/2 sashes to first floor. To left is a canted bay with 1/1 sashes. Over the canted bay, there is a similar bipartite sash to the first floor.

The southeast elevation of the main house has an asymmetrical arrangement of windows: 1/1 sliding sash at ground floor left with a small low level six-paned window at the centre and a small 2/2 sliding sash at right; there is a roughly central 2/2 sliding sash to the first floor. The southeast elevation of the former No. 9 is abutted by a lean-to porch. There are a variety of one-over-one and two-over two sashes and one six-light casement to ground and first floors.

The southeast gable of the main house is abutted by No. 9. The exposed section has a variety of sashes and a sheeted entrance door. The north gable of No. 9 is blank.

Setting

The house fronts directly onto the main street and the garden is bounded to the street by a low wall with hedge. It is accessed from the north east through a gateway set back from the street of ornate wrought iron double gates and square cast iron pillars with moulded caps. A hedge-lined drive past the northwest gable leads to a paved courtyard.

There is a detached multi-bay single-storey stone outbuilding to the rear of No. 9. It has a single central wallhead dormer with sheeted painted timber doors and a catslide dormer to its right end. Square-headed openings with red brick dressings, painted timber sheeted doors, and casement windows. Set in courtyard paved and

Roof covering Natural slate
Walling Painted roughcast
Windows Timber sliding sash
Rainwater goods Cast iron

Historical information

Appears on the 1834 OS Map. The 1836 Townland Valuations state the house and office to be owned by a George Gilpin and value the property at £3.8s.0d. Across the road were two other rows of houses. Within the row farther south toward the Castle Upton estate entrance was the house and office of Lord Templetown’s agent.

In 1860, the Immediate Lessor for the rows along The Village was listed as Lord Templetown. Across the road to the second row farther north away from the Castle Upton estate entrance was a two-storey Dispensary, listed as 5.5 yards in length, 7 2/3 in breadth, exempt from valuation.

The house appears on the 1932 OS Map and the attached townhouse and terrace-of-six terraces were recorded during the first survey in the 1970s. No. 7 was reported to be a surgeon’s office with the second pile being the surgeon's house. The five terraces were demolished after the early 1990s.

References:

Primary Sources

1. PRONI OS/6/1/51/1 (1834) OS Map, First Edition, Co. Antrim, no.51, 1934.
2. PRONI OS/6/1/51/5 (1932) OS Map, Fifth Edition, Co. Antrim, no.51, 1932.
3. PRONI VAL/1/A/1/51B (1836) Townland Valuation Map, Co. Antrim, no.51, 1836.
4. PRONI VAL/1/B/129A (1836) Townland Valuation Book, Co. Antrim, 1836.

Criteria for listing: architectural interest

A. Style
B. Proportion
C. Ornamentation
D. Plan Form
H+. Alterations enhancing the building
I. Quality and survival of Interior
J. Setting

Criteria for listing: historic interest

Y. Social, Cultural or Economic Importance
X. Local Interest

Evaluation

Attached three-bay two-storey rendered house with classical details, built c.1820, adjoining (and now incorporating) a single remaining slightly lower terrace (of former terrace of six), built c.1800. A symmetrical early nineteenth century house with classical detailing occupying a prominent street-fronted location in Templepatrick village. The house formerly stood at the end of an eighteenth-century terrace, now demolished with the exception of No. 7, which has been incorporated in the main house. The house is a good example of the type as it has developed, with many features intact, and forms an important element in the village. Its original function as a doctor's surgery lends it historical and social importance.