Historic Building Details

HB Ref No:
HB01/03/008

Address :
Glen House Main Street Eglinton County Londonderry **See General Comments**

Townland:

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Survey 2:
D1 Record Only

Date of Listing:

Date of De-listing:

Current Use:

Former Use

Conservation Area:

Industrial Archaeology:

Vernacular:

Thatched:

Monument:

Derelict:

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OS Map No:
27-11SE

IG Ref:
C5262 2022

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Owner Category

Exterior Description And Setting

A former two-storey three-bay rendered house with widely overhanging hipped slated roof, now extensively altered. The First Survey card records: A two-storey, three bay, rendered house with widely overhanging hipped slated roof. The entrance is a semi-circular roofed. Porch is flanked either side by triple plain sashed windows. Single upper windows are plain sashed. Gable to road is two bay. Quoins dress extremities. Building south and west in flat roof construction. Double panelled doors are flanked by sidelights, the semi-circular fanlight is radial-glazed in margins. Date of visit: May 1972

Architects

Historical Information

N/A

Criteria for Listing

Architectural Interest

Not listed

Historic Interest

Not listed

Evaluation

A former two-storey three-bay rendered house with widely overhanging hipped slated roof, now extensively altered. Although significant in the locale as the ancestral home of Thomas Gallagher (1840-1927), founder of the tobacco empire, extensive alterations have compromised its architectural and historic interest.

General Comments

Partial survey only - Extensive alterations have compromised its architectural and historic interest.

Date of Survey

26 February 2014