Historic Building Details

HB Ref No:
HB14/01/001

Address :
36 Derrycush Road Cloncore Portadown Co Armagh BT62 1UU

Townland:
Cloncore

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Survey 2:
B+

Date of Listing:
03/11/1977 00:00:00

Date of De-listing:

Current Use:
House

Former Use
Thatched House

Conservation Area:
No

Industrial Archaeology:
No

Vernacular:
Yes

Thatched:
Yes

Monument:
No

Derelict:
No

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OS Map No:
181/1

IG Ref:
H9566 6072

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Owner Category

Private

Exterior Description And Setting

Three structural bay, lobby entry, harled and whitened thatched house facing north east with attched thatched barn to north west and attched barn with corrugated metal roof to south west. The building is sited gable-ended to a small road that leads off the secondary road that travel eastwards alongside the M1 Motorway and then southwards crossing the Motorway to reach Portadown after a distance of about seven miles. Walls are generally constructed of mud with an applied white finish. The roof of the dwelling and the adjoining outbuildings to the north-west are covered with thatch between a cement fillet at the junction with a corrugated iron roofed structure to the south-east and cement skews at the termination at the north-west end. Red brick chimneystacks with concrete cappings serve the kitchen hearth and the fireplace in the parlour adjoining to the left (south-east). The thatch covering dips over a curved-side windbreak porch that protects the entrance door. To the left (south-east) of the porch there are four vertically sliding windows with sashes divided into two vertically. The windows are provided with horns, the frames are exposed and sill are of traditional depths at the leading faces. The openings are unequally spaced with those lighting the parlour set close together. Beyond the entrance to the right (north-west) the storerooms are entered by means of a timber sheeted door and then a timber sheeted stable door. At the end of the elevation there is a further store with the front wall recessed and roofed with corrugated iron. The stable door is timber sheeted. At the rear there is one opening containing a top hung window and to the right (south-east) of the kitchen extension and to the left (north-west) there are three widow openings, two with sashes, and a timber sheeted door giving access to the second outbuilding. The flat-roofed kitchen extension is whitened to match the house. The structure appears to have been extended outwards. The windows and the rear door are modern.

Architects

Not Known

Historical Information

A building is shown on this site -separate from the line of outbuildings- on the OS map of 1834 / 35, but not noted in the contemporary valuation. On the revised map of 1860 it is shown as part of a long line with the outbuildings. The referencing system employed on the map to accompany the second valuation of c.1862 is confusing so it is difficult to say if this house is that occupied by John Wilson, with David Wilson the immediate lessor and rated at 5/-, or that occupied by William Smith, with William Wilson the immediate lessor and rated at 10/-. Work to the thatch was carried out in 1977 and 1979 by James J. Gray of Portadown and in 1980, 1981 and 1982 by Andrew Walker of Castletown, Omagh. In 1983 the window frames were replaced by County Joinery Works Ltd. of Portadown, with work to the thatch undertaken by Trevor Agnew, Quay House, Moira, using wheat straw. Further work to the roof was completed in 1991 using flax, with a scheme carried out in 2000 using flax supplied by Gerry Agnew. References- Primary sources 1 PRONI VAL/1A/2/5 OS map, County Armagh sheet 5, with valuation
references (1834 / 35-c.38) 2 PRONI VAL/2A/2/5A OS map, County Armagh sheet 5, with valuation references (1860-c.62) 3 PRONI VAL/2B/2/21C Second valuation, Tartaraghan (1862) Secondary sources 1 Pierce, Richard, Cooey, Alistair and Oram, Richard, ‘Taken for Granted…’ (Belfast, 1984), pp.67-68 2 Information supplied by the owner (September 2002) Other references 1 EHS files

Criteria for Listing

Architectural Interest

A. Style B. Proportion C. Ornamentation D. Plan Form F. Structural System H-. Alterations detracting from building I. Quality and survival of Interior J. Setting

Historic Interest

Z. Rarity W. Northern Ireland/International Interest

Evaluation

Three structural bay, lobby entry, harled and whitened thatched house facing north east with attched thatched barn to north west and attched barn with corrugated metal roof to south west.The layout of the original house, and of the outbuildings, is virtually unaltered and the detail is mainly intact. The mud-walled construction and the roof structures are of high interest. The setting of the premises and the positioning of the buildings, including the ancillary structures, present a very good impression of an early 19th century farm complex.

General Comments

Date of Survey

18 September 2002