Historic Building Details

HB Ref No:
HB05/08/029

Address :
133 Main Street Bushmills Co. Antrim BT57 8QE

Townland:
Magheraboy or Bushmills

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Survey 2:
Record Only

Date of Listing:
02/12/1980 00:00:00

Date of De-listing:
02/06/2017 00:00:00

Current Use:
House

Former Use
House

Conservation Area:
Yes

Industrial Archaeology:
No

Vernacular:
No

Thatched:
No

Monument:
No

Derelict:
No

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OS Map No:
7/9NW

IG Ref:
C9407 4066

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Owner Category

Exterior Description And Setting

Two-storey two-bay painted rendered end-of-terrace house. Rectangular plan-form with a slated pitched roof (chimney stack to the SE side has been rebuilt); brick chimney stack to the NW side has circular terracotta clay pots. Set within a terrace row along Main Street Bushmills. Built c. 1834; the name of the architect is unknown. Located within the village of Bushmills, on Main Street, which is aligned parallel to the Bush River. Set on the West side of the street, due South of Market Square. Walling has smooth rendered finish (painted) to front and rear elevation; a single entrance doorway on ground floor level is accessed directly from the footpath on the Main Street. All windows are top-hung casements on painted sills (timber to front); corner quoins to left side of front elevation are painted in contrasting colour; all set on a painted rendered plinth; uPVC rainwater goods throughout. Principal elevation faces North-east accessed directly off paved footpath on the Main Street; three bays wide on ground floor and two bays on first floor above (end bays are aligned); ruled and lined smooth render walls all set on a painted rendered plinth; raised corner quoins to left side of elevation are painted in contrasting colour. Entrance doorway, not centred on elevation contains a timber panelled door with small glazed panes to upper section. South-east gable end is blank; walling is of unpainted lined and ruled smooth render (appears to have been recently re-done) topped by a large rendered chimney stack with two terracotta clay pots. South-west elevation to the rear is set within an open shared courtyard with a stone outbuilding to the SW side; main building is of two-storeys with lime-washed render for the main part; wall splays at ground floor to right side. UPVC door off-centred on the ground floor (not aligned with bays on first floor above), with a top-hung casement window to the right side and a small single-storey painted rendered outshot having a lean-to corrugated roof and timber framed glazed door to the left; first floor level consists of two top-hung casement windows that align with outer bays below. Projecting brick headers at eaves support uPVC gutter. Small metal framed boiler enclosure with metal flue extending above eaves height abuts lean-to. North-west side is adjoined to neighbouring property [HB05/08/030] No. 131 Main Street. Setting: Set at the end of a terraced row of similar scaled buildings on the West side of Main Street within the Bushmills Conservation Area, between No.131 Main Street (HB05.08.030) to the right. The Oak House (HB05.08.028) sits to the left side and a narrow alleyway that provides access to a shared yard, separates the two. Lime-washed stone gabled outbuilding to the West of the shared yard that appears to be disused; blind brick arched window to its North gable, above the adjoined neighbouring outbuilding (smaller in scale). Further monopitched outhouse adjoined to its east with vertical boarding above timber double doors opening on to yard. Materials: Roof: Fibre cement RWGs: uPVC Walling: Painted render, ruled and lined (NE); lime-washed (SW) Windows: uPVC.

Architects

Historical Information

No. 133 Main Street, a two-storey two-bay building located on the west side of Main Street in Bushmills, was originally constructed between 1834 and 1857. An earlier building on the same site was depicted on the Townland Valuation Town Plan (c. 1834), however the contemporary Townland Valuation (1835) records that this was a dilapidated single-storey structure. The valuer also noted that a single-storey rectangular-shaped Methodist chapel was located in the yard to the rear of the current building, although this house of worship had been demolished by the mid-19th century. The Bushmills Conservation Area Guide records that Bushmills was a significant settlement before the end of the 18th century but from the 1820s the village was extensively rebuilt by the MacNaghten family of Bushmills House (who had acquired the estate in 1787). No. 133 Main Street was constructed prior to 1857 as it was first depicted on the second edition Ordnance Survey map of that year and was recorded in the contemporary Griffith’s Valuation of 1859. Griffith’s Valuation noted that No. 133 Main Street was valued at £4 and was initially occupied by a Mr. John Jameson who leased the site from John Hill, a local national schoolmaster. The occupants of the house changed with frequency over the following four decades and by the turn of the 20th century No. 133 Main Street was occupied by Daniel McKenzie, a local farm labourer. The Ordnance Survey Town Plan (1902) depicted No. 133 Main Street along its current layout and did not depict any outbuildings to rear. The contemporary 1911 Census of Ireland described the house as a 2nd class building that consisted of five rooms and possessed a piggery as its sole out office. Under the First General Revaluation of Property in Northern Ireland (1936-57) the house raised in value to £5 and 10 shillings and was leased by the Dinsmore family (occupants of the adjoining public house at nos 135-137 Main Street) to a Mr. Daniel Carson. No. 133 Main Street was purchased outright by John Kerr, a retired labour, in 1959, however following Kerr’s death in 1962 the house passed to his son Martin, a local bus driver (PRONI Wills). Martin Kerr continued to reside at No. 133 Main Street until at least the end of the Second General Revaluation (1956-72) at which time the total rateable value of the building stood at £3 and 10 shillings. In 1972 the UAHS Guide for North Antrim described the buildings along Main Street in Bushmills in the following general terms: ‘A well-scaled street. Many good doorways and shopfronts remain, although there is the usual profusion of signs. While no building apart from the former Courthouse is worthy of individual mention, the unity of the street frontages must be maintained’ (UAHS Guide, p. 16). No. 133 Main Street was listed in 1980 and was subsequently included in the Bushmills Conservation Area. The conservation area was designated in 1992 in order to preserve the built heritage of the village which possesses the highest number of listed buildings in the North East of Northern Ireland. The NIEA HB Records note that No. 133 Main Street underwent a renovation in the 1980s which included the reslating of its roof. In c. 2003 one of the building’s original chimney stacks was reconstructed in concrete (Bushmills Conservation Area Guide; NIEA HB Records). References Primary Sources 1. PRONI OS/6/1/7/1 – First Edition Ordnance Survey Map (1832) 2. PRONI OS/6/1/7/2 – Second Edition Ordnance Survey Map (1857) 3. PRONI OS/6/1/7/3 – Third Edition Ordnance Survey Map (1904) 4. PRONI OS/6/1/7/4 – Fourth Edition Ordnance Survey Map (1922) 5. PRONI VAL/1D/1/7 – Townland Valuation Town Plan (c. 1834) 6. PRONI VAL/1/B/132 – Townland Valuations (1835) 7. PRONI VAL/2/B/1/25A – Griffith’s Valuation (1859) 8. PRONI VAL/12/B/30/8A-D – Annual Revisions (1859-94) 9. PRONI VAL/12/B/4/6A-C – Annual Revisions (1895-1929) 10. PRONI VAL/3/C/1/13 – First General Revaluation of Property in Northern Ireland (1936-57) 11. PRONI VAL/4/B/1/22 – Second General Revaluation of Property in Northern Ireland (1956-72) 12. Ulster Town Directories (1861-1918) 13. Census of Ireland (1901; 1911) 14. PRONI Wills Catalogue (28 Jun 1962) 15. First Survey Record – HB05/08/029 16. NIEA HB Record – HB05/08/029 Secondary Sources 1. ‘Bushmills Conservation Area Guide’ Belfast: Department of the Environment (N. I.), 1983 – including the Ordnance Survey Town Plan of 1902. 2. Girvan, W. D., ‘Historic buildings, groups of buildings, areas of architectural importance in North Antrim’ Belfast: Ulster Architectural Heritage Society, 1972.

Criteria for Listing

Architectural Interest

Historic Interest

Evaluation

Two-storey two-bay painted rendered end-of-terrace house, set within a row along Main Street in the Bushmills Conservation Area and built between 1834 and 1857; the name of the architect is unknown. Rectangular plan-form with artificial slates to pitched roof and rendered chimney stack to gable end. Whilst the original form, proportion and modest scale survives at the front and side, together with a white-washed stone outhouse to the yard, the exterior retains little original detailing with the roof, rainwater goods, windows and back door all replaced with inappropriate materials that detract from its character. Internally, the plan form has been altered at ground floor level and there is little evidence of historic fabric. The cumulative effect of all these changes means that the building has insufficient architectural and historic interest to be considered special.

General Comments

Date of Survey

10 April 2015