Historic Building Details

HB Ref No:
HB11/01/001

Address :
Errington 82 Relagh Road Trillick Omagh BT78 3RN

Townland:
Glengeen

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Survey 2:
B1

Date of Listing:
04/04/1979 00:00:00

Date of De-listing:

Current Use:
House

Former Use
House

Conservation Area:
No

Industrial Archaeology:
No

Vernacular:
No

Thatched:
No

Monument:
No

Derelict:
No

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OS Map No:
193/3SW

IG Ref:
H3120 5346

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Owner Category

Private

Exterior Description And Setting

Detached three-bay two-storey-over-basement house (basement exposed at rear), built c.1835, extended and remodelled c.1860, located to the east side of Relagh Road, Trillick. Rectangular-on-plan with single-storey canted entrance porch with hipped roof; two-storey return to rear. Series of perpendicular single-storey and two-storey outbuildings to north-west. Roof is pitched natural slate; blue/black clay ridge tiles; two corbelled ashlar chimneystacks with decorative clay pots. Corbelled overhanging eaves; few cast-iron rainwater goods remaining; mostly replacement half-round aluminium. Walls are roughcast rendered; windows are square-headed timber framed 6/6 sliding sashes (diminished at basement and first floor) with boasted-fielded sandstone dressings (main block only), stepped at ground floor; all with projecting masonry cills unless otherwise stated. Principal elevation is symmetrical and faces east; central single-storey canted bay built c.1980 with hipped roof and replacement ogee profile uPVC rainwater goods; contains principal entrance in south cheek; single window to each cheek (with smooth rendered surrounds). Single window at left bay; tripartite window at right bay. Three windows at first floor (window at right is replacement 6/6 uPVC casement mimicking original 6/6 timber sliding sash). Left gable contains uPVC projecting canted bay, built c.1990, at ground floor left with leaded natural slate hipped roof; replacement uPVC ogee profile gutters and square downpipes supported on roughcast rendered soffit; single window at right; two windows at first floor. Basement contains single window directly below canted bay flanked by timber four-pane casement at each side; window at left. Rear elevation is abutted by (slightly lower) two-storey return. Re-entrant angle contains single-storey lean-to entrance porch. Exposed section contains dipartite metal frame lattice windows with chamfered mullion and chamfered surround with infilled masonry cill to each floor. Basement window flanked at left by metal frame single-pane casement within projecting square surround. Ground floor window flanked at left by replacement uPVC window. First floor window flanked at left by replacement timber casement. Right gable is abutted by two-storey north wing with pitched roof; exposed section contains two square casement windows with projecting sandstone surrounds at first floor level. Two-storey return (possibly earlier longhouse) was built c.1835; roof is pitched natural slate (hipped to west end); blue/black clay ridge tiles; two smooth rendered corbelled chimneystacks, Walls are smooth rendered over recessed painted plinth. Windows are vertically divided 2/2 sliding sashes with projecting masonry cills unless otherwise stated. North elevation is abutted at left by single-storey lean-to entrance porch; exposed section contains an early round-arched-headed timber sheeted entrance door within round-arched-headed sandstone surround; replacement casement window to left; at right a square-headed double-leaf timber sheeted door with transom light divides two timber casement windows. Three windows at first floor; 3/3/3 metal casement at left. Lean-to entrance contains timber sheeted door with chamfered sandstone surround; 3/3 timber sliding sash window to west cheek with chamfered sandstone surround and projecting masonry cill. West elevation is abutted by single-storey lean-to extension at right, abutted by random rubble wall aligned east-west enclosing farmyard to rear. South elevation contains two 3/3/3/3 metal casements at left at ground floor; at right, fifteen-pane glazed timber door, flanked at left by single window. Seven windows at first floor (two at left, paired with continuous cill). Setting Series of single-storey and two-storey outbuildings to north-west. Most notable is the north-south aligned block. Roof is pitched natural slate, ashlar gable chimneystacks; walls are roughly coursed exposed random rubble (red brick surrounds) with visible traces of lime render to east. Original timber fenestration largely intact including lattice windows and square-headed vertically sheeted timber doors with opening horizontally divided transom light. South-east corner abutted by round-headed coach arch wall with slated canopy, wall adjoins west wall of two-storey return and enclosed farmyard to north. Set within unspoiled rural landscape with expansive garden to east enclosed by river running south-west, and traditional farmyard to south; the house is accessed from road to west over road bridge with low, roughly coursed rubble drystone parapet walls with flat stone coping. Parallel access to farmyard at north. Roof Natural slate Walling Roughcast render Windows Square-headed timber framed 6/6 sliding sashes (diminished at basement and first floor) with boasted-fielded sandstone dressings (main block only), stepped at ground floor; all with projecting masonry cills unless otherwise stated. RWG Replacement aluminium and uPVC

Architects

Not Known

Historical Information

The main house dates from c.1860, and incorporates two earlier buildings of c.1810 and c.1835 as a rear return and a wing to the north. Two rectangular buildings are shown on the 1833 map, and the most easterly of these appears to have retained as a wing of the current building. ‘Errington’ first appears, captioned, on the second edition OS map of 1852, and has begun to approximate its current form, but the main house section, which was still being built in 1858, does not appear. ‘Relagh Lodge’ is also captioned nearby to the north, but by the fourth edition of 1939, Relagh Lodge has gone. ‘Errington’ with the main house section complete appears on the 1905/6 map. Errington and Relagh Lodge are both listed in Griffith’s Valuation as belonging to Robert W Storey. At this time he is living in Relagh Lodge and Errington is unoccupied. A marginal note dated August 1858 states: “A new mansion house nearly finished.” It is valued at £16 and then raised to £18. Annual Revision Records increase the value to £24. In 1891 a marginal note records, “Mr Storey asked to have house separately valued. House and offices occupied part of year by himself and always by [constabulary?] offs requiring the working farm.” It is held in fee by the Storey family until 1915, when it is split into two lots and passes to the Humphrey family. J. A. K. Dean in “The Gate Lodges of Ulster” (1994) notes that the nearby “Relagh or Raleigh Lodge…was by 1855 being rejected in favour of the family’s new residence of Errington nearby.” (Dean, p.148) On the earlier building, the OS Memoirs write in the 1830s: “Relagh, the seat of Counsellor James Story, is a neat double cottage situated in the townland of Relagh” (p.114). The north wing appears to be the oldest part of the house, probably built c.1810, indicated by the plain detailing. During the building of the main house, c.1860, the return, c.1835, originally three-bay two-storey, appears to have been remodelled and extended into the new building. The return has the appearance of an earlier building, but is not present on the first edition OS map. The new house (1860) differs in style from the original house, with more ornate detailing, such as sandstone dressings to openings, corbelled chimneys and leaded lattice windows lighting stairwell to rear. The first survey photograph, dated 1978, shows a single-storey rectangular flat-roofed porch to principal elevation which has since been replaced by a canted porch, c.1980; a canted bay has also been added to the south elevation, c.1990. References: Primary Sources 1. PRONI OS/6/6/56/1 – First Edition OS Map (1833) 2. PRONI OS/6/6/56/2 – Second Edition OS Map (1852) 3. PRONI OS/6/6/56/3 – Third Edition OS Map (1905/6) 4. PRONI OS/6/6/56/4 – Fourth Edition OS Map (1939) 5. PRONI VAL/2/A/6/56 – Townland Valuation Map 6. PRONI VAL/2/B/6/33B – Townland Valuation Records 7. PRONI VAL/12/B/40/2/A-F – Annual Revision Records 8. Day, A. and P. McWilliams, eds. “OS Memoirs of Ireland, Parishes of County Tyrone I, 1821, 1823, 1833-36, Vol. 5.” Belfast: Institute of Irish Studies, 1990. Secondary Sources 1. Dean, J. A. K. “The Gate Lodges of Ulster: A Gazetteer.” Belfast: Ulster Architectural Heritage Society, 1994.

Criteria for Listing

Architectural Interest

A. Style B. Proportion C. Ornamentation D. Plan Form I. Quality and survival of Interior J. Setting

Historic Interest

X. Local Interest

Evaluation

A detached three-bay two-storey-over-basement house, built c.1835, extended and remodelled c.1860. The original house, c.1835, simple in design with little ornamentation, now forms the rear return of the later house, a substantial building with dressed sandstone detailing. The north wing pre-dates both the house and return, built c.1810. The building has an unusual layout, as the stairhall is accessed to the rear of the entrance hall, perpendicular to principal accommodation. Detailing remains largely intact throughout and the house retains much of its original character and remains a fine example of a building of its genre. The complex of outbuildings to the rear of the house adds interest to the rural estate setting.

General Comments

Date of Survey

02 February 2009