Historic Building Details

HB Ref No:
HB19/02/027

Address :
16 Cochranstown Road (Quarterland) Dundrod Crumlin County Antrim BT29 4JG

Townland:
Dundrod

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Survey 2:
Record Only

Date of Listing:

Date of De-listing:

Current Use:
Farm Buildings

Former Use
House

Conservation Area:
No

Industrial Archaeology:
No

Vernacular:
Yes

Thatched:
No

Monument:
Yes

Derelict:
No

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OS Map No:
128/16

IG Ref:
J2205 7495

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Owner Category

Private

Exterior Description And Setting

Detached single-storey rendered dwelling, built c.1830 and range of rubblestone outbuildings. House and outbuildings are rectangular on plan, both facing southwest on either side of a long paved yard to the south of Cochranstown Road and to the west of B154. House; Pitched corrugated iron roof with two replacement brick chimneystacks, cement coping to gables and cast-iron rainwater goods. Rough-cast rendered walling. Square-headed window openings with concrete sills and timber sash windows. Front west elevation is three windows wide with a gabled shallow breakfront entrance porch having corrugated iron roof and timber sheeted half-door. Single uPVC window to the southernmost bay. North gable is blank. Rear elevation fronting into yard is three windows wide with an off-centre door opening. Two single-pane timber sash windows with raised and fielded timber linings visible and a single uPVC window. Timber sheeted door. South gable is blank. Outbuildings; Lining the east side of the yard is a linear range of two-storey rubblestone outbuildings with a pair of lean-to projections to either end of the rear elevation. Pitched natural slate roof and replacement metal guttering to iron brackets to a brick eaves course. Square-headed door and window openings with brick arches having sheeted timber doors and multi-pane timber casement windows. Oculi formed in redbrick to both elevations with iron pivot windows. To the centre of the range is an elliptical-headed carriage arch spanning front to rear with sliding timber sheeted doors. To the west of the yard is a pair of single-storey rubblestone outbuildings with pitched natural slate roofs and cast-iron posts with a further outbuilding to the rear of the central structure. Setting: The principal outbuilding runs on a northwest-southeast axis with a paved yard to the southwest elevation lined by two further outbuildings to the southwest side and the house occupying the northwest of the yard. Set on a mature site with a deciduous forest to the east fronting onto B154 and an ancient fort to the west. Site accessed by a short lane opening onto Cochranstown Road to the north. Roofing: Natural slate Walling: Rubble stone/rough-cast render Windows: Timber single-glazed/metal single-glazed/uPVC replacement RWG: Cast-iron

Architects

Not Known

Historical Information

No. 16 Cochranstown Road, a single-storey vernacular farmhouse with a number of original outbuildings first appears on the first edition Ordnance Survey map for the townland of Dundrod in 1832-33 which depicts an oblong building situated to the east side of an ancient ‘fort;’ the house also possessed two outbuildings one situated to the north-east side of the dwelling (which occupies the current footprint of the east linear range) and the other a lengthy range extending south to the rear of the house. By 1858 the second edition map shows that an additional outbuilding had been constructed to the south-east of the house. The contemporary Griffith’s Valuation records that this farmhouse was occupied by a Mr. Martin Farrell in 1859 and that the building was valued at £2. The third edition of the Ordnance Survey maps (c. 1900) could not be examined; however the fourth edition (1920-21) shows very little alteration to the site which by that time was named ‘Quarterland.’ The only discernible alteration to the site at that time was the addition of two small outbuildings to the south-east side of the house. Without access to valuation records held at the Public Records Office it is not possible to give a complete occupational history of the building, however notes written by the Rev. David Sloan Corley of Dundrod Presbyterian Church indicate that a Mr. James Ervine occupied Quarterland for an unknown period between 1859 and 1911 and that a Ms. Mary Ferguson resided there until the time of her death in February 1922 (Glenavy History Website). The 1911 Census for Dundrod Townland tells us that Mary Ferguson (who was unlikely to have resided at Quarterland at that time) was an unmarried Presbyterian Seamstress. The house she resided in was a 2nd class two-roomed slated building which possessed a fowl house as its sole out office, making it unlikely to have been Quarterland which possessed extensive farm buildings. The next reference to the site was in 1945 when a local newspaper recorded that a Mrs. Susan Ireland had died at Quarterland; Mrs. Ireland and her husband Thomas (who died some years prior) resided at this dwelling for a number of years and were recorded in the 1901 Census at which time they occupied a small farm in the townland of Dundrod (Glenavy History). Field inspection has found that the house at Quarterland is unoccupied although the farmbuildings continue to be used; at an unknown date the roof of the farmhouse was replaced with corrugated iron. References Primary Sources 1. PRONI OS/6/1/59/1 – First Edition Ordnance Survey map 1832-33 2. PRONI OS/6/1/59/2 – Second Edition Ordnance Survey map 1858 3. PRONI OS/6/1/59/4 – Fourth Edition Ordnance Survey map 1920-21 4. PRONI VAL/2/B/1/63 – Griffith’s Valuation 1859 5. Census of Ireland 1901 / 1911 6. Ordnance Survey Map – 128-16 (1961) Online Resources 1. Notes of Rev. David Sloan Corley; Dundrod Presbyterian Church Burials (Glenavy Local History Website - http://www.glenavyhistory.com/)

Criteria for Listing

Architectural Interest

Historic Interest

Evaluation

Prior to substantial demolitions this was a complex comprising a detached single-storey rendered dwelling, built c.1830 and range of rubblestone outbuildings. The group remains of significant local interest, but does not meet the test for listing.

General Comments

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Date of Survey

24 February 2011