Quintin House

The Department's description

Exterior description and setting

Large, formal two storey, hipped roof farmhouse of c.1890, with large flat roofed porch to front, large rear return, conservatory and PVC window frames. The property is set on a slight slope to the W of Quintin Bay Road, c.3 miles SE of Portaferry.

The front elevation faces roughly S and is symmetrical. To the centre of the ground floor is a large flat roof porch with PVC glazed door to E face. This door has plain sidelights and a fanlight, all encased with fluted pilasters, with brackets supporting moulded eaves course (which continues around entire porch), and entablature with moulded keystone. S face of the porch has double two pane PVC window with top hung upper pane with thin column, with moulded bracket and base, as mullion. (All window frames are PVC). Window has cement render surround with simple decoration and moulded keystone. The W face of the porch has similar window.

Window as before to left and right of porch with three similar, but slightly shorter, windows to first floor.

W facade has a small gabled ‘conservatory’/sun room to right on ground floor with four pane PVC window to left (on main façade), as front, and two similar windows to first floor. The upper half of each face of the conservatory is glazed.

E facade has two windows to the ground floor, as ground floor previous, and two to first floor, as first floor previous.

To the rear there is a large, two storey hipped roof return. This has windows of various sizes to the E and W faces, and a glazed door to the W. Rear has ground floor and first floor window as front, to left side of projecting extension, with a similar window to first floor to right of extension with smaller window (with similar surround as before) to ground floor.

Entire facade finished in rough cast render with moulded chamfered quoins and chamfered plinth. Roof of main house and extension are covered in ‘Thru-tone’ slates and clay ridge tiles. Boxed eaves overhang- 150mm to main house and 400mm to extension. Two central, potless yellow brick chimneys with simple corbelling to main roof. PVC gutters and down spouts. Large farmyard to rear with mainly modern farm buildings.

Historical information

A long rectangular building shown on on this site on the OS Maps of 1834 and 1861. The present building probably dates from c.1890-1900. According to the present owner the porch is not original, but was added after 1922.

References- Primary sources
1 PRONI OS/6/3/32/1 Ordnance Survey maps, 1st ed., 1834, Down sheet 32
2 PRONI OS/6/3/32/2 Ordnance Survey maps, 1st rev., 1860, Down sheet 32
3 PRONI OS/6/3/32/3 Ordnance Survey maps, 2nd ed., 1899-1900, Down sheet 32

Criteria for listing: architectural interest

Not listed

Criteria for listing: historic interest

Not listed

Evaluation

Large, much altered formal two storey, hipped roof farmhouse of c.1890, with large flat roofed porch to front, large two storey rear return, conservatory and PVC windows. The porch was apparently added some time after 1922 and the conservatory in c.1990.