Historic Building Details

HB Ref No:
HB09/03/015

Address :
Killymain House, 15 Maloon Road, Cookstown, Co Tyrone

Townland:
Killymam

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Survey 2:
B1

Date of Listing:
21/08/2008 00:00:00

Date of De-listing:

Current Use:
House

Former Use
House

Conservation Area:
No

Industrial Archaeology:
No

Vernacular:
Yes

Thatched:
No

Monument:
No

Derelict:
No

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OS Map No:
124/03 NW

IG Ref:
H7966 7937

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Owner Category

Private

Exterior Description And Setting

This is a developed, rendered single-storey farmhouse, built c.1830. The character of the building is vernacular with a formalised front façade, in a vernacular interpretation. It is long and rectangular in plan with a single-storey return to the rear. There is a single-storey outbuilding to the North gable. There is a further single-storey lean-to to the South gable. External walls are ruled-and-lined cement render to the front elevation. The rear elevation is painted roughcast render. The roof is pitched with artificial ‘fish scale’/diamond pattern tiles. There are three chimneys set on the ridge line of the roof. Chimneys are brick with profiled stepped capping. Rainwater goods are cast-iron. The front East elevation is six bays in width. There is a projecting single-storey porch to the fourth bay; the door is square-headed with a rendered surround; the roof is pitched with artificial ‘fish scale’/diamond pattern tiles to its roof. There are decorative carved timber fascia boards to the gable of the porch. The side windows are 1/1 timber sliding sash set on painted concrete sills. The front façade rests on a rendered plinth. The side South elevation is obscured to the ground floor by the single-storey lean-to. There are no openings to the gable. There are three square-headed windows to the left, and two to the right of the porch . The windows have projecting painted concrete shouldered and heeled square-moulded surrounds with a central keystone over. Windows are set on painted concrete sills. Frames are 2/2 timber sliding sash margin panes. The side North elevation is unpainted roughcast render with no openings. The rear elevation is roughcast render with an assortment of square-headed windows. Windows are 1/1 or 2/2 timber sliding sash frames set on cut-stone sills. Some windows have margin panes. Returns: Rear Return: The single-storey return to the rear has a square-headed replacement uPVC window to the rear. There is a square-headed timber sheeted door to the North. The roof is pitched with artificial tiles, as previous. External walls are painted brick. South lean-to: The single-storey lean-to to the South gable is painted roughcast render. There is a square-headed timber door to the East elevation. The roof is sloped with corrugated metal. Outbuildings: North outbuilding: The single-storey outbuilding to the North has a square-headed timber sheeted door. There are no openings to the gable-ended North elevation. The rear elevation has a single square-headed opening. Walls are painted roughcast render. The roof is pitched as before, sagging slightly to the centre. Setting: The house fronts onto a farmyard enclosure with a series of outbuildings to the Northeast. A small single-storey lean-to links the North outbuilding with an L-shaped outbuilding. To the South of the L-shape is a single-storey lean-to, with a water pump located immediately opposite. There is a single-storey painted corrugated metal shed with a rounded roof to the South. Across the main Maloon Road to the East are larger concrete and metal sheds, built, c.1960. The shed to the north is pitched with a metal roof. The shed to the South has a rounded metal roof. L-shaped outbuilding: This outbuilding is abutting the house to the North via a single-storey lean-to. The lean-to has a square-headed timber sheeted door facing the yard. It has a painted corrugated metal roof. The North wing of the L-shaped outbuilding has a timber sheeted half-door to the South elevation. The North elevation is largely blank, with ventilator openings to the walls. The East elevation is gable-ended with a single square-headed opening at high level. The roof is pitched with a corrugated metal roof. The South wing has two timber sheeted doors facing the yard, as previous. There are two small square-headed timber casement windows at high level. The roadside eastern elevation has no openings. External walls are painted rubble stone and roughcast render. The South gable is partially obscured by a single-storey projecting lean-to. There is a square-headed opening to the gable. A wrought-iron wind vane surmounts the apex of the gable.

Architects

Not Known

Historical Information

A house is shown on this site on OS map of 1833-34, but not noted in the near contemporary valuation. In the second valuation of 1857 the occupant is listed as a William Faulkner with Messrs Gunning & Moore, (local mill owners who bought much of the Stewart family’s Cookstown estate in 1852), the immediate lessors, and the rateable value a very modest £1-5-0. The property remained with the Faulkner family up until 1942, when a John Gourley is recorded as the owner. Mr Gourley was still in residence in 1957. References- Primary sources 1 PRONI VAL/1A/6/29 2 PRONI VAL/2A/6/29A OS map, Co Tyrone sheet 29, 1854-57 3 PRONI VAL/2b/6/22B Second valuation, Derryloran parish, 1857 4 PRONI VAL/12B/37/5A Annual valuation revision book, Cookstown ED, 1860-63 5 PRONI VAL/12B/37/5B Annual valuation revision book, Cookstown ED, 1864-68 6 PRONI VAL/12B/37/5C Annual valuation revision book, Cookstown ED, 1868-81 7 PRONI VAL/12B/37/5D Annual valuation revision book, Cookstown ED, 1881 8 PRONI VAL/12B/37/5E Annual valuation revision book, Cookstown ED, 1881 9 PRONI VAL/12B/37/5F Annual valuation revision book, Cookstown ED, 1882-90 10 PRONI VAL/12B/37/5G Annual valuation revision book, Cookstown ED, 1882-88 11 PRONI VAL/12B/37/5J Annual valuation revision book, Cookstown ED, 1889-94 [The reference number for this book is out of sequence in the PRONI catalogue- the dates it covers are actually earlier than VAL/12B/37/5H.] 12 PRONI VAL/12B/37/5H Annual valuation revision book, Cookstown ED, 1895-99 13 PRONI VAL/12B/37/5K Annual valuation revision book, Cookstown ED, 1889-99 14 PRONI VAL/12B/37/6A Annual valuation revision book, Cookstown rural ED, 1899-1911 15 PRONI VAL/12B/37/6B Annual valuation revision book, Cookstown rural ED, 1912-23 16 PRONI VAL/3C/7/5 First general revaluation of Northern Ireland, Lissan Lower ED, 1936-57

Criteria for Listing

Architectural Interest

A. Style B. Proportion C. Ornamentation J. Setting

Historic Interest

X. Local Interest

Evaluation

This is an unusual example of a vernacular farmhouse that has been gentrified in, perhaps, the 1930s. Overall the effect is of an individual interpretation of a robust formality, expressing the historic development of the property. With vernacular houses becoming increasingly rare, one with such decorative elements is even more atypical. The setting amongst a well preserved set of mainly vernacular outbuildings is also of note.

General Comments

Date of Survey

29 February 2008