36 Manse Road

The Department's description

Exterior description and setting

Detached one-and-a-half-storey vernacular house, built c.1850, and located to the south side of Manse Road, Carrickfergus. Rectangular-on-plan with single-storey return to rear; further abutted by series of modern extensions.

Roof is pitched natural slate with blue/black ridge tiles and masonry verge tiles; red brick gable chimneystacks with terracotta pots. Few cast-iron half-round rainwater goods remaining; replacement uPVC to principal elevation. Walls are roughly coursed random rubble with visible traces of lime render; windows are square headed 6/6 timber sliding sashes with masonry cills. (All ground floor windows blocked.)

Principal elevation faces south and has a unsymetrical fenestration containing central timber sheeted entrance door with overlight; single window at left; two at right. Two diminished 4/8 windows lighting half-storey.

Left gable is roughcast rendered and contains sliding corrugated metal door.

Rear elevation is abutted to right by single-storey return with pitched natural slate roof, detailed as main block. Abutted to left by lean-to corrugated metal extension; (covering two original window openings at ground floor;) exposed section has single window at first floor.

Right gable has single window at first floor.

Single-storey return is abutted by modern outbuilding to south with pitched asbestos sheeted roof; right cheek contains single window; left cheek is abutted by further modern extension with corrugated metal lean-to roof.

Set parallel to the road, the house is preserved within its original
setting with small front garden enclosed by a dry stone wall to the road edge and original cast-iron pedestrian gate to the north-west corner of the house; replacement entrance walls and piers have been built to both the east and west sides of house.

Roof: Natural slate with blue/black ridge tiles and masonry verge tiles
Walling: Roughly coursed random rubble with visible traces of lime render
Windows: Square-headed 6/6 timber sliding sashes with masonry cills
RWG: Half-round cast-iron

Historical information

The building is shown on the first edition OS map of 1832. The second edition OS map of 1857 shows an extension to the north east elevation, facing the road.

Griffith’s Valuation of 1859 records the property as a ‘house, offices and land’ owned and occupied by Alexander Nelson. The building is valued at £4. Valuation revisions list the occupier in 1864 as James Nelson.

References:

Primary Sources

1. PRONI OS/6/1/47/1 – First Edition OS Map (1832)
2. PRONI OS/6/1/47/1 – Second Edition OS Map (1857)
3. PRONI OS/6/1/47/3 – Third Edition OS Map (1902)
4. PRONI VAL/2B/1/16 – Griffith’s Valuation Fieldbook (1859)
5. PRONI VAL/12/B/7/18A-E -Valuation Revisons (1864-1829)

Criteria for listing: architectural interest

Not listed

Criteria for listing: historic interest

Not listed

Evaluation

A detached one-and-a-half-storey vernacular house, built c.1850, and located to the south side of Manse Road, Carrickfergus. Internally the house has had all of its detailing removed and although the front elevation is intact these changes have detracted from its architectural interest.