Cottage

The Department's description

Exterior description and setting

Now derelict long narrow single storey cottage of perhaps c.1880s, situated in an isolated
setting within northern part of the former Nugent estate, W of Mountain Road, just over a mile N of Portaferry.

The building is constructed in random rubble, with red brick dressings and rendered and is now in very poor condition.

Front N elevation is asymmetrical, with four openings all now mostly devoid of original door and window frames. Off centre doorway, now without door. Opening with segmental arch head to left, with stone cill and remains of casement window. Two windows to right of doorway as before.

S rear elevation has two windows to the left, an off centre doorway, and another window to the far right. Window bays narrower than front elevation and without segmental arch heads. Virtually no remains of frames. Both gables blank.

Pitched roof with Bangor blue slates and the remains of two (centred) red brick chimney stacks.

Historical information

The window openings suggest this cottage was originally built in the later nineteenth century. The building appears to have been aboandoned when first surveyed in November 1970.

References- Primary sources
1 PRONI OS/6/3/24/2 OS maps, 1st rev, 1860, Down sheet 24
2 PRONI Second ('Griffith's') valuation, Parish of Arduqin, 1861 [In print.]
3 PRONI OS/6/3/24/3 OS maps, 2nd ed., 1899-1900, Down sheet 24

Criteria for listing: architectural interest

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Criteria for listing: historic interest

Not listed

Evaluation

Now derelict long narrow single storey cottage of perhaps c.1880s.