7 Ballyeaston Village

The Department's description

Exterior description and setting

Detached three-bay two-storey vernacular house, built c.1820, located on an elevated site to the north side of Ballyeaston Village. Rectangular-on-plan with one-and-a-half-storey extension with pitched roof to rear.

Roof is pitched tiled with blue/black clay ridge tiles; red brick chimney stacks with clay chimney pots to gables. Rainwater goods are half-round uPVC. Walls are roughcast rendered with smooth rendered string courses, over smooth banded plinth, (ruled-and-lined to principal elevation); windows are timber 2/2 sliding sash with painted masonry cills.

Principal elevation faces west and has central replacement uPVC entrance door; one window to right, two to left; three windows to first floor.

Left gable has one replacement window at first floor and is abutted by corrugated metal gates which access an enclosed yard to rear.

Rear elevation has central timber sheeted door; two windows to left at ground and first floor (right window at first floor is metal casement); abutted by two-storey outbuilding with pitched roof to right.

Right gable is blank; abutted by corrugated metal gates giving access to an enclosed yard to rear.
Multi-bay outbuilding has roughcast rendered walls, metal casement windows and a timber sheeted door.

Setting

House is street-fronted at west; concrete yard enclosed to rear by series of single and two-storey pitched roof outbuildings.

Roof Tiled
Walling Roughcast with smooth rendered detailing
Windows timber sliding sashes
RWG uPVC

Historical information

The first edition OS map of 1834 shows a group of buildings (aligned as current group) to the right side of the road. Unfortunately the Townland Valuation Fieldbook of 1836 field book for the corresponding townland is missing.

Griffiths Valuation of 1859 records the site as land occupied by Samuel Crawford; the immediate lessor is John Owens, Esq. No buildings appear under this record, however a hand drawn map is included in the fieldbook which shows buildings of a similar plan to the cottages, this is divided and marked as three separate buildings. The first property is a house and small garden, the total value of the land and buildings is £1.10s, occupied by Isabella Houston, with the lessor as John Graham. The next entry details a house, valued at £0.15s with Margaret Wilson as occupier and the lessor John Allen [son], while the third property is a house and office valued at £1, and also occupied by a John Allen.

References

Primary Sources:
1. PRONI OS/6/1/45/1 - First Edition OS Map (1832)
2. PRONI OS/6/1/45/2 – Second Edition OS Map (1857)
3. PRONI VAL/1/A/1/45 -Townland Valuation Map (1836)
4. PRONI VAL/1/B/1/114 -Townland Valuation Fieldbook (1836)
5. PRONI VAL/2/A/1/45 A-Griffiths Valuation Map (1859)
6. PRONI VAL/2/B/1/11 -Griffiths Valuation Fieldbook (1859)

Criteria for listing: architectural interest

Not listed

Criteria for listing: historic interest

Not listed

Evaluation

Detached three-bay two-storey house, built c.1820, located on an elevated site to the north side of Ballyeaston Village. The house retains some original features which contribute to the character of the village, along with the remainder of the group (HB21/04/005A-D). It comprises part of a vernacular grouping but has been compromised by alteration and modernisation and is of a relatively common type of which there are better examples.