Historic Building Details

HB Ref No:
HB10/01/034

Address :
9 Lislaird Road Mournebeg Castlederg, Co Tyrone BT81 7XX

Townland:
Lisnacloon

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Survey 2:
B1

Date of Listing:
15/06/2010 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:
102-7

IG Ref:
H2313 8382

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Owner Category

Private

Exterior Description And Setting

A three-bay single-storey early-nineteenth-century direct-entry vernacular house, aligned W-E on the North side of Lislaird Road. Rectangular on plan with small extension to rear. Roof is thatch under corrugated tin with concrete skews; there are lime rendered rubble stone chimneystacks with stone slab coping to gables and to party wall. Rainwater goods are half-round cast-iron. Walling is lime-washed lime-render over random rubble stone. Windows are generally 6/6 timber sashes with horns and tooled stone sills (unless otherwise stated). The roof construction comprises rough hewn pulins spaning between cross walls and rough hewn collar trusses. These support scantling rafters at close centres which are overlain with scraws. The trusses are pegged and there is evidence of scallops piercing the scraws. Principal elevation faces north. Left bay has a single 1/1 sliding sash with flush fieldstone sill. Central bay has timber-sheeted door with timber lintel and stone threshold to left and a window to right. Right bay has a single window. Gables are blank. Rear elevation is abutted by a lean-to extension detailed entirely as house and having a single 2/2 sash to south face. To its left is a 2/4 sash, to its right are three diminutive single-pane windows with flush fieldstone sills. The house is set in a simple farmyard with outbuildings to west consisting of a two-storey byre and loft abutted at south by a single storey range. The byre has a pitched slate roof with concrete skews, lower ranges have corrugated metal roofs and are partially open to one side, with roof supported on a rubble stone pier. All have lime rendered lime washed rubble stone walling. The byre has a door opening and metal-framed window to ground floor east; first floor has a slightly off centre loading door flanked by equally spaced windows at either side. There are a number of ventilation holes formed from fieldstones. North gable is abutted by a set of external stone steps with stone slab treads and kennel opening leading to a timber sheeted loading door. East elevation has a timber sheeted door, a casement and an opening to loft. The house occupies a rural
setting with front yard enclosed by mature hedgerows; it is accessed by an earth lane from west. Roof: Thatch under tin Walling: Lime-washed lime-rendered rubble stone Windows: Various painted timber sash with horns RWG: Half-round cast-iron

Architects

Historical Information

There are buildings present on the first edition Ordnance Survey map of 1833. One of these has survived as the current house. An outbuilding to the west of the main house first appears on the third edition of 1904-5. A dwelling house and office occupied by Hugh Monteith are listed in the Townland Valuation (1828-40) at a value of £2.19s.9¾d. Dimensions are given for the dwelling house at 57x19x7 and for an office or outbuilding, which has now gone, at 41x17x6.9. Griffith’s Valuation lists a house, office and land on the site valued at £1.10s. Hugh Monteith leases the property from Sir Robert A Ferguson Bt, amended in 1862 to William Knox. The property remains in the Monteith family throughout the period of Annual Revisions (1860-1929). In 1933 William Monteith is the owner in fee. The house comprises a kitchen, three rooms, p[antry?] and store. The valuation is raised to £2.15 for the house and 10s for outbuildings. The house, which measures 50x18x13 is of rubble masonry and roofed with corrugated iron with thatch under. The outshot is also of rubble masonry and corrugated iron. The valuer describes the house as being in fair condition. References: Primary Sources 1. PRONI OS/6/6/15/1 – First Edition OS Map (1833) 2. PRONI OS/6/6/15/2 – Second Edition OS Map (1853) 3. PRONI OS/6/6/15/3 – Third Edition OS Map (1904-5) 4. PRONI OS/6/6/15/4 – Fourth Edition OS Map (1951) 5. PRONI VAL/1/A/6/15 – Townland Valuation Map 6. PRONI VAL/1/B/636D – Townland Valuation (1828-40) 7. PRONI VAL/2/A/6/15 – Griffiths’ Valuation Map 8. PRONI VAL/2/B/6/38C – Griffith’s Valuation (1856-64) 9. PRONI VAL/12/B/35/16A-F – Annual Revision Records (1860-1929) 10. PRONI VAL/3/D/7/1N/2 – Valuers’ RV Binder (1933-57)

Criteria for Listing

Architectural Interest

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

Historic Interest

Z. Rarity X. Local Interest

Evaluation

A single-storey three-bay direct entry vernacular house dating from the early-nineteenth century and containing a wealth of original features. Of principal interest is the thatch roof structure of unsawn pegged timbers and scraws which remains intact beneath corrugated metal sheeting, and the traditional fireplace. Various traditional materials and techniques are represented including lime plastered walling, some with traditional pigment, and horizontally-sheeted partition walling used to divide structural bays into smaller sleeping compartments. The house is of historic and architectural interest, both for its structure and details such as the remaining box bed. It constitutes a rare survival of a thatched roof under tin, and has an unspoiled rural setting and associated outbuilding.

General Comments

Date of Survey

01 July 2009