Historic Building Details

HB Ref No:
HB05/01/030

Address :
52 Glen Road Glenariff Co.Antrim BT44 0RF

Townland:
Tamlaght

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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:
No

Thatched:
No

Monument:
No

Derelict:
Yes

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OS Map No:
35/1

IG Ref:
D2410 2360

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Owner Category

Exterior Description And Setting

Detached two-bay two-storey rendered house, built c.1850. Rectangular on plan facing northwest and located on the south east side of Glen Road. Pitched natural slate roof with black clay ridge tiles, cement coping to either gable end, two cement rendered chimneystacks and cast-iron guttering with plastic downpipes. Ruled-and-lined rendered walling with painted rusticated rendered quoins. Square-headed window openings with smooth rendered surrounds, painted masonry sills and single-pane timber sliding sash windows. Northwest front elevation has a central square-headed door opening with rendered surround, reeded keystone and flush timber door. Door opens onto enclosed front area. 1/1 timber sliding sash windows set within smooth rendered surrounds. Blind northeast gabled side elevation. Rear elevation obscured by vegetation. Access not possible. Blind southwest gabled side elevation with collapsed accretion. Roof Natural slate RWG Cast-iron Walling Cement render Windows Timber sliding sash Setting: Located on a small site on the east side of Glen Road enclosed by ruled-and-lined rendered wall with replacement gate hung on rendered piers and a further vehicular entrance to the south with original iron gates.

Architects

Historical Information

No. 52 Glen Road, a two-storey three-bay farmhouse located in the townland of Tamlaght, was constructed between 1832 and 1857. The farmhouse was not recorded on the first edition Ordnance Survey map (1832) but did appear on the second edition map (1857) where it was depicted as a simple rectangular-shaped structure. The contemporary Griffith’s Valuation (c. 1859) records that the farmhouse was valued at 15 shillings and was leased by Edmund Cuppage, a local landowner who resided at Mount Edwards House, to a Mr. Arthur Harvey. Harvey continued to reside at No. 52 Glen Road until c. 1871 when the farmhouse passed to Patrick Delargy, whose family remained at the address until at least the 1970s. The Delargy family had also resided at the neighbouring No. 54 Glen Road since the 1850s (see HB01/05/031). No. 52 Glen Road had passed to John Delargy by 1873 and the 1901 Census of Ireland noted that he resided at the farmhouse with his wife and their five children. The census building return described the farmhouse as a 2nd class slated dwelling that consisted of two inhabited rooms and possessed a cow house, a piggery and a barn as its sole outbuildings (located to the rear of the farmhouse). The contemporary third edition Ordnance Survey map (1903) recorded no change to the layout of the building since the mid-19th century and also noted that the outbuildings, currently located across the road from the farmhouse, had not been constructed at that time (the outbuilding range was first depicted on the fourth edition Ordnance Survey map in 1921). John Delargy continued to occupy No. 52 Glen Road until his death in 1918 at which time his son Alexander took possession of the farm; Alexander Delargy had also taken possession of the neighbouring No. 54 Glen Road in c. 1923 (PRONI Wills). The value of No. 52 Glen Road was increased to £5 under the First General Revaluation of Property in Northern Ireland (1936-57) which also noted that Alexander Delargy had purchased the farmhouse outright from the Cuppage estate. Alexander Delargy remained at the site until at least the end of the Second General Revaluation (1956-72) at which time the total rateable value of the farmhouse, and its outbuildings, had been further raised to £24 and 15 shillings. Field inspection of the site, carried out as part of the Second Survey, has found that No. 52 Glen Road remains vacant and has fallen into a state of disrepair. References Primary Sources 1. PRONI OS/6/1/20/1 – First Edition Ordnance Survey Map (1832) 2. PRONI OS/6/1/20/2 – Second Edition Ordnance Survey Map (1857) 3. PRONI OS/6/1/20/3 – Third Edition Ordnance Survey Map (1903) 4. PRONI OS/6/1/20/4 – Fourth Edition Ordnance Survey Map (1921) 5. PRONI VAL/2/B/1/38 – Griffith’s Valuation (c. 1859) 6. PRONI VAL/12/B/7/1A-E – Annual Revisions (1863-1929) 7. PRONI VAL/3/C/1/21 – First General Revaluation of Property in Northern Ireland (1936-57) 8. PRONI VAL/4/B/1/35 – Second General Revaluation of Property in Northern Ireland (1956-72) 9. Ulster Town Directories (1861-1918) 10. Census of Ireland (1901; 1911) 11. PRONI Wills Catalogue (25 July 1918)

Criteria for Listing

Architectural Interest

Not listed

Historic Interest

Not listed Not listed Not listed Not listed Not listed

Evaluation

Detached three-bay two-storey rendered house, built c.1850. This house and its neighbour - no. 54 Glen Road (HB05/01/031) - are good examples of farmhouses in their original settings: situated directly on the roadside on elongated sites, their field boundaries a relic of the rundale system once common in the area. Though the buildings are of local interest, insufficient historic fabric remains for these buildings to be considered of special architectural and historic interest.

General Comments

Date of Survey

11 March 2015