46 Loughmourne Road

The Department's description

Exterior description and setting

Detached symmetrical two-bay one-and-a-half-storey vernacular house, built c.1850, and located to the east side of Loughmourne Road, Carrickfergus. Direct-entry; rectangular-on-plan with gabled central storm porch.

Roof is pitched natural slate with blue/black ridge tiles and masonry verge tiles; red brick gable chimneystacks. Two rooflights to south slope; half-round cast-iron rainwater goods (few remaining.) Walling is roughly coursed random rubble with brick window surrounds and visible traces of lime render; windows are square headed 2/2 timber sliding sashes.

Principal elevation faces south and consists of single window to either side of central windbreak porch. Porch has a pitched slated roof and teracotta verge tiles, rooflight to right slope. Window to left cheek; right cheek is blank.

Left gable is abutted by single-storey outbuilding with pitched asbestos sheeted roof. Exposed section is blank.

Rear elevation is abutted by a raised ground level covering most of the ground floor; the exposed section is blank.

Right gable is abutted by multi-bay two-storey outbuilding, detailed as main block.

Left gable extension is partially open to south; north and west gable are blank.

Right gable extension is detailed as main block with unsymetrical fenestration to south comprising a central window opening with entrance to each side at ground floor, two openings at first floor; north has single timber sheeted door at first floor; east gable is blank.

Set perpendicular to the road, the house is preserved within its original
setting with traditional farmyard containing several attached stone outbuilding and perpendicular outbuilding to south-east.

Roof: Natural slate with blue/black ridge tiles and masonry verge tiles
Walling: Roughly coursed random rubble with brick window surrounds and visible
traces of lime render
Windows: Square-headed 2/2 timber sliding sashes with masonry cills
RWG: Half-round cast-iron

Historical information

The building is first shown on the second edition OS map of 1857, and is recorded in Griffith’s Valuation of 1859 as a ‘house, offices and land’ occupied by Andrew Ross and leased from the Marquis of Downshire. The building is valued at £0.10s

Primary Sources

1. PRONI OS/6/1/46/1-First Edition OS Map (1832)
2. PRONI OS/6/1/46/2-Second Edition OS Map (1857)
3. PRONI OS/6/1/46/3-Third Edition OS Map (1902)
4. PRONI VAL/2/A/1/46 -Griffith’s Valuation Map (1857)
5. PRONI VAL/2/B/1/22 -Griffith’s Valuation (1859)

Criteria for listing: architectural interest

Not listed

Criteria for listing: historic interest

Not listed

Evaluation

A 2-bay vernacular dwelling, traditionally constructed on a direct-entry plan. This house has the general massing of an interesting nineteenth century vernacular house, unfortunately it has lost too much of its detailing to consider protection through listing.