13 Ballyeaston Village

The Department's description

Exterior description and setting

Attached two-bay single-storey end-of-terrace house, built c.1820, located at right end of a terrace of three houses, located to the north side of Ballyeaston Village. Rectangular-on-plan.

Roof is pitched and natural slated with clay ridge tiles; yellow brick chimney with replacement pots to left gable, replacement chimney to party wall with adjoining house; two replacement roof-lights to rear pitch. Walling is roughcast over contrasting smooth banded plinth with smooth rendered banding to corner and party wall; horizontal band to window mid-level. Windows are replacement square-headed timber casements mimicking 2/2 sliding sashes, within smooth architraves; painted masonry sills.

Principal elevation faces south and contains central replacement square-headed timber entrance door with glazed panels with smooth rendered architrave; window to either side.

West gable is blank; timber bargeboards.

North elevation contains single window to right.

East elevation abutted by No. 11 Ballyeaston Village (HB21/04/005C).

Setting

House is directly accessed from the street to south, lawn to rear, driveway to west bounded to road by timber fence.

Roof Natural slate
Walling Roughcast
Windows timber casements
RWG Cast-iron

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 was not available from PRONI at the time 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 shows appears to detail the cottages, 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 as John Allen, while the third property is a house and office valued at £1, and occupied by 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

A modestly-scaled single-storey house, one of a terrace of three opening directly onto a sloping street in Ballyeaston village. The house is plainly detailed and contributes to the character of the village, along with the remainder of the terrace ( 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.