Historic Building Details

HB Ref No:
HB19/03/071

Address :
1 Trummery Lane Maghaberry Moira Craigavon County Down BT67 0JN

Townland:
Maghaberry

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Survey 2:
Record Only

Date of Listing:

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:
164/10

IG Ref:
J1727 6326

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Owner Category

Private

Exterior Description And Setting

A detached asymmetrical two-storey three-bay farmhouse originating as a single-storey thatch before 1830 and remodelled in Edwardian style post-1911. Rectangular plan form with subservient two-storey return; and outbuilding. Located at the junction of Trummery Lane and Maghaberry Road, south west of HMP Maghaberry. Pitched natural slate roof with crested terracotta ridge tiles; overhanging eaves timber soffits and exposed rafter ends; projected purlins to gable ends; plain bargeboards; cast-iron ogee moulded rainwater goods. Yellow brick chimney stacks with moulded cornice course and plain pots. Exposed random rubble masonry walling with galletting; red brick surrounds to openings, with brick quoins and chimneystacks. 1/1 timber sliding sash windows with horns; stone cills; smooth rendered reveals to jambs and head. 15 pane timber front door with modern ironmongery. The principal elevation faces south and is asymmetrically arranged. Entrance porch (c.1965) located right of centre comprises; red brick, stretcher bond, gable ended with fish-scale slates, terracotta crested ridge tiles and finial; decorative bargeboards. The front door is located on the right cheek with a stained margin-paned sliding sash window to the gable end; the left cheek is blank. Single window to the right with two to the left; diminished first floor openings directly over. Evidence of blocked up door opening located between the left hand windows. The left gable is asymmetrical with single windows to the ground and first floor located to the left hand side. The ground floor window surround is distinctly less uniform, suggesting a later insertion, perhaps at the time of the rear return. The rear elevation is asymmetrically arranged with a two-storey return abutting the right hand side (c.1915). Right cheek of return has two first floor windows with a large modified opening to the ground floor; the gable end is abutted by a modern flat roofed extension that wraps around the left cheek (window at first floor), infilling the space between the rear of the house and the adjacent outbuilding. Two first floor and a single ground floor window left of the return. The right gable is blank. Setting: Prominently located on the corner of a junction, adjacent to the main thoroughfare through Maghaberry. Gardens to the front and rear of the dwelling bounded to the west by coniferous vegetation. The east side of the site runs parallel to the adjacent secondary road and is bounded by a small parapet wall, smooth rendered surmounted by iron railings and pedestrian gate. Beyond the road is a modern housing development. To the rear of the site is a long single-storey outbuilding, rubble masonry with slated roof, converted into accommodation. A rubble masonry wall bounds the north of the site; running parallel to the main road. Roofing: Natural slate Walling: Rubble masonry Windows: Timber sliding sash RWG: Cast-iron

Architects

Not Known

Historical Information

This dwelling can first be seen on the 1832-33 edition of the Ordnance Survey map for the area where it is depicted as an oblong building. This map also shows the currently attached outbuilding located to the north side of the dwelling. The Townland Valuation of c.1830s tells us that the house and its offices were valued at £4 18s and was occupied by a Mr. Matthew Watson. The valuer described the house as a 2b+ structure which measured 46ft by 19ft and was 11ft in height. The rear outbuilding measured 30ft by 20 ft and was valued at 18s 5d. Matthew Watson resided at this address until 1874 when a Mr. David Gray came into possession of the house, which at that time was valued at £5 10s. The Annual Revisions record that Gray bought the house from the Hertford Estate in 1895 and lived there until 1904 when a Mr. Robert Mayne, a local farmer occupied the house. However, census records tell us that Mayne resided in the house as early as 1901 with his wife Ann Jane (58) and their five children. Mayne, a Presbyterian farmer, was 65 when the census was conducted. The 1901 Census describes the house on Trummery Lane as a thatched 2nd class dwelling consisting of between four and six rooms. Mayne had vacated this address by 1911 when a Mr. Terence Catney, a 73 year old Roman Catholic farmer, was in possession of the house and lived there alone until his death in February 1914. The 1911 Census continued to describe the house as a thatched dwelling which contained six rooms; the current Edwardian house and rear return was constructed post-1911 first appearing on the fourth edition of the Ordnance Survey map (1920-21). The census for 1911 indicates that the house possessed a stable, cow house, piggery, and a fowl house which were housed in the rear outbuilding of the house. Terence Catney died in February 1914 and left the large sum of £1,778 19s. 1d. to a Mr John Heaney and Francis Mulholland who were employed as a builder and farmer respectively (PRONI wills catalogue, 11/02/1914). With Catney’s death the house on Trummery Lane came into the possession of a Mr. William Archer who occupied the farm until the end of the Annual Revisions in 1929. The layout of the site remained unchanged by 1973 when the house and the rear out office were depicted on the current Ordnance Survey map. In recent years a single-storey return has been constructed joining the Edwardian return to the rear outbuilding; the south half of the outbuilding has been converted into a kitchen whilst the other half continues in its use as a storeroom. References: Primary Sources 1. PRONI VAL/1/A/1/67 – Field Map c.1830 2. PRONI VAL/1/B/175 – Townland Valuation c. 1830 3. PRONI OS/6/1/67/1 – First Edition OS Map 1832-33 4. PRONI OS/6/1/67/2 – Second Edition OS Map 1858 5. PRONI OS/6/1/67/3 – Third Edition OS Map 1900 6. PRONI OS/6/1/67/4 – Fourth Edition OS Map 1920-1921 7. PRONI VAL/2/B/1/62B – Griffith’s Valuation 1859 8. PRONI VAL/12/B/8/14 A – Annual Revisions 1863-1879 9. PRONI VAL/12/B/8/14 B – Annual Revisions 1880-1889 10. PRONI VAL/12/B/8/14 C – Annual Revisions 1890-1908 11. PRONI VAL/12/B/8/14 D – Annual Revisions 1909-1929 12. PRONI Wills Catalogue (1914) 13. Census of Ireland – 1901 / 1911. 14. Ordnance Survey map – 164-10 (1973)

Criteria for Listing

Architectural Interest

Not listed

Historic Interest

Not listed

Evaluation

A detached asymmetrical two-storey three-bay farmhouse, originating as a single-storey thatch before 1830, with early 20th century modifications to the interiors, windows and roofing. Possibly once rendered although the galletting on the north facade is of good quality to suggest it was perhaps intended to be visible. The modern additions are not particularly sympathetic in detailing and detract from the overall appearance of the rear of the house. Although interesting, it is not considered of special architectural interest and suitable for listing.

General Comments

Date of Survey

23 November 2010