Historic Building Details

HB Ref No:
HB20/15/004

Address :
50 Main Street Crumlin Co Antrim BT29 4UR

Townland:
Ballytromery

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Survey 2:
B2

Date of Listing:
11/12/1974 00:00:00

Date of De-listing:

Current Use:
House

Former Use
House

Conservation Area:
No

Industrial Archaeology:
No

Vernacular:
No

Thatched:
No

Monument:
No

Derelict:
No

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OS Map No:
128/10

IG Ref:
J1526 7615

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Owner Category

Private

Exterior Description And Setting

A two-storey gabled building, four windows wide, with attics. Main entrance faces north. North elevation: roof of Bangor blue slates in regular courses between gable copings. Three chimneys, smooth cement rendered with moulded cornices, one chimney on each gable, no pots, and one in intermediate position on ridge, with one pot. Wall smooth cement rendered, lined, with raised quoins to extremities; moulded plinth and moulded cornice. Cast iron gutter returning to side elevation to right. Four windows to first floor: rectangular timber vertically hung sliding sash, 2 over 2, with horns, set in aedicule surrounds comprising triangular pediment, curved ornamented brackets, panelled pilasters, and small brackets below projecting cills. Ground floor has main entrance doorway to left hand side with three windows sashed as first floor, to right. Modern canopies over each opening obscuring architectural features to each head. Doorway has a pair of fluted Ionic columns on short pedestals set in segmental moulded surround with a deep-set plain fanlight over a lintel which has scalloped chamfers to top and bottom edges. Rectangular timber door inset in rectangular surround. Door original, four-panel, with semi-circular heads to upper panels, all panels raised and fielded. Original iron doorknob, letterbox, and knocker. East gable of house rendered, wet dash with patch repaired in smooth cement render, lined and blocked. Raised quoins to right hand extremity. Two windows to attic, semi-circular headed, timber vertically hung sliding sash, 1 over 1, with horns; projecting moulded label with ornamented stops. West gable smooth cement rendered, lined and blocked. One window to attic, similar to those on east gable. Rear elevation: 2½ storey main block with a single storey flat-roofed return projecting forward to the left hand side, and a two-storey gabled return projecting forward at the extreme right hand end which returns again with a single storey flat-roofed wing across the rear façade of the main block to form a small inner courtyard. Main house walls smooth cement rendered, lined and blocked; roof of Bangor blue slates in regular courses between gable upstands; three chimneys, smooth cement rendered with moulded cornice, one on each side gable, and one in intermediate position on ridge. Cast iron gutter and downpipes. Eaves line broken by two wall-head dormers with shallow slope to roofs; rectangular timber windows to dormers, vertically hung sliding sash, 2 over 2, with horns, concrete cills. Two rectangular first floor windows sashed as dormers, with similar cills, to left hand side; two semi-circular headed stair windows to right hand side, one above the other, top one small with timber vertically hung sliding sash, 1 over 1, with horns; lower one large, sashed as previous, but 3 over 2 with margin lights. Return at left hand side has flat roof covered in asphalt; PVC rainwater goods; rectangular timber windows comprised of fixed lights with top-hung vents; walls smooth cement rendered, lined and blocked. Return at right hand side has slated roof, Bangor blues in regular courses; large chimney of red brick with two original pots; walls rendered with dry dash of limestone chippings; PVC rainwater goods. Gable has angle-headed ledged timber door to loft in apex of gable, with rectangular double doors, modern, to ground floor, enclosed by modern lean-to conservatory of white coated aluminium. Windows in east side of return are modern timber fixed lights with top-hung vents; walling as gable; west side of return similar; single storey wing similar walling with two similar windows, one to south face in PVC, one to west face in timber; felt roof with deep painted wooden fascia. SETTING: The building stands facing the main street of the village and forms the end of a terrace. Its entrance front is set back slightly from the pavement, with a modern cobbled surface to the area contained each side by original cast iron railings on low plinth walls; area open to pavement. Plinth walls contain a short stepped path to the front door from the pavement. Large modern shop sign on post located in front area. Rear yard paved with modern hexagonal concrete pavoirs with raised flower beds. Boundary to east side of yard formed by rubble blackstone wall with concrete coping; boundary to south formed by modern gabled and lean-to outbuildings with rendered walls.

Architects

Not Known

Historical Information

Precise date of construction not known; a building appears on OS map of 1832-3 but the style of the present building suggests a rebuilding of the early Victorian period. The house was known in the past as 'Ulsterville' but that name does not appear anywhere on it. Listed in 1974. References - Primary Sources 1. OS Map 1832-3, Co Antrim 59. 2. OS Map 1858, Co Antrim 59. Secondary Sources 1. UAHS, West Antrim (Belfast, 1970), pp 8-9 (entry no 6).

Criteria for Listing

Architectural Interest

A. Style B. Proportion C. Ornamentation H-. Alterations detracting from building I. Quality and survival of Interior

Historic Interest

X. Local Interest

Evaluation

This is an example of an early Victorian building which has suffered inappropriate additions to the exterior and interior. However despite these alterations it still remains an important building in the centre of Crumlin.

General Comments

Date of Survey

17 March 1999