Historic Building Details

HB Ref No:
HB08/04/017

Address :
89 Tirkane Road Tullyheran Maghera Co. Londonderry BT46 5NE

Townland:
Tullyheran

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Survey 2:
B2

Date of Listing:
29/09/2006 00:00:00

Date of De-listing:

Current Use:
House

Former Use
Thatched House

Conservation Area:
No

Industrial Archaeology:
No

Vernacular:
Yes

Thatched:
Yes

Monument:
No

Derelict:
No

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OS Map No:
65/9

IG Ref:
C8425 0120

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Owner Category

Private

Exterior Description And Setting

A pair of single storey, six-bay, direct entry houses with remains of thatch under corrugated iron roofing. The houses occupy a roadside position facing south-west behind small gardens bounded at the front by low walling Each kitchen hearth is served by a rendered corbelled chimneystack. That on the left rises from the gable and the other is placed centrally to serve the right-hand house. At the left-hand (north-west) side the corrugated iron covering terminates in a concrete parapet and is finished flush over the gable on the opposite side. The eaves of the roof of the right-hand house terminate at the front by means of a canted fascia board. The wall construction is of rubble stone roughly plastered and whitened on the front elevation. The stonework is exposed at the sides and at the rear. Each house has a central doorway flanked on either side by a metal-framed casement window made up of two sections of three vertical panes. The door of the left-hand (north-west) house is missing and the door of the right-hand house is ledged, braced and timber sheeted.

Architects

Not Known

Historical Information

The houses do not appear on the OS map of 1832 but they are shown as a simple rectangle on the revision of 1854. References – Primary Sources 1. OS map, 1st edition 1832, Co. Londonderry, sheet 36 2. OS map, 1st revision 1854, Co. Londonderry, sheet 36 Secondary Sources Conversations with owner. There is a possibility that rather than being vernacular houses in the usual sense of the term ie part of a smallholding, these may have been built as "cotter" (cotteir ) houses connected with a local farm or small estate.

Criteria for Listing

Architectural Interest

A. Style B. Proportion C. Ornamentation D. Plan Form F. Structural System H-. Alterations detracting from building J. Setting

Historic Interest

X. Local Interest Z. Rarity

Evaluation

A pair of single storey, each of three bays, direct entry houses with remains of thatch under corrugated iron roofing. The layouts are unchanged and the roof structure is intact.

General Comments

Date of Survey

17 November 2004