9 Ballyeaston Village

The Department's description

Exterior description and setting

Attached multi-bay two-storey end terrace, built c.1820, located on an elevated site to the north side of Ballyeaston Village. Rectangular-on-plan with single-storey flat-roof extension to rear.

Roof is pitched tiled with clay ridge tiles; three yellow brick chimney with replacement pots. Rainwater goods are half-round uPVC. Walls are roughcast over smooth banded plinth. Windows are replacement square-headed four-pane timber casements mimicking sliding sashes with masonry cills.

Principal elevation faces south and contains replacement entrance door offset to right; door is square-headed timber with fifteen glazed panels surmounted by slated lean-to canopy and accessed by tiled step; two windows to right, three to left; five windows to first floor.

West gable abutted by No. 11 Ballyeaston Village (HB21/04/005C).

Rear elevation is multi bay, windows of various sizes throughout; two windows to left at ground floors; abutted to right by single-storey extension; two windows to first floor above extension.

Extension has two windows to north elevation; entrance door to east.

East gable is blank.

Setting

House is directly accessed from the street to south. Concrete yard enclosed to rear by series of pitched single and two-storey outbuildings with pitched roofs.

Roof Tiled
Walling Roughcast
Windows timber casements
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 from the Public Records Office at the date of writing.

Griffiths Valuation of 1859 records the site as land occupied by Samuel Crawford; the immediate lessor is John Owens, Esq. No buildings are entered under this record, however a hand drawn map is included in the fieldbook which shows a building that appears to be 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 occupied by (the aforementioned perhaps) John Allen [son?]

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

An attached multi-bay two-storey end terrace, 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 (21/04/005A-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.