Historic Building Details

HB Ref No:
HB09/13/011 C

Address :
58 James Street Cookstown Co Tyrone BT80 8LT

Townland:
Loy

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Survey 2:
B2

Date of Listing:
24/10/1975 00:00:00

Date of De-listing:

Current Use:
Shop - Terrace

Former Use
Shop - Terrace

Conservation Area:
No

Industrial Archaeology:
No

Vernacular:
No

Thatched:
No

Monument:
No

Derelict:
No

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OS Map No:
124/07

IG Ref:
H8110 7814

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Owner Category

Private

Exterior Description And Setting

This is a terraced two-storey house and shop; built c. 1833, originally built as one house together with the adjacent building (HB09/13/011D). It is rectangular in plan with a two-storey return to the rear, and a single-storey lean-to. External walls to front elevation are painted render. The building forms part of a mixed terrace within a long row of buildings along James Street. The West elevation fronts directly onto James Street (the original garden has been removed and is now paved. The ground floor has a late Victorian shopfront, which has been partially altered. There is a central timber panelled doorway flanked by two large single-light shop windows on rendered stall risers. It contains two panelled timber pilasters to edges, which are surmounted by carved scrolled timber console brackets. The shopfront is surmounted by a timber fascia with projecting carved timber cornice. The upper level has 1/1 timber sliding sash windows on painted cut stone sills. There is a modern signage attachment to the upper level. The rear East elevation is dry dash render. There is artificial slate to the main roof, and a rendered chimney with profiled capping. Gutters appear to be cast-iron to the front elevation, with replacement uPVC rainwater goods to the rear. Returns: The main two-storey return has an assortment of timber casement windows. A modern commercial kitchen extract has been added to the East elevation of the return. The single-storey lean-to has a timber casement window and door. There is artificial slate to roofs and uPVC rainwater goods.

Architects

Not Known

Historical Information

The valuation records of 1834-c.1838 indicate that this property and its neighbour to the south (present no.60, HB09/13/011D), were originally a single concern. This single property is recorded in 1835 as an old house (quality letter ‘1C+’) and shop, (the former having a ‘flying lease’ over the latter), occupied by a George Hollins and John Moffet respectively. The rateable value of the house is listed as £6-11-1, the shop £1-3-0, with rent of the former £14 per year, and the latter, £4. The dimensions of the house are recorded as, 19½ft x 21½ x 18, ‘above 26’ [i.e. over the shop] 16 x 21½ x 9, with a return of 15½ x 17 x 15, thatched offices of 46½ x 14 x 12, and the shop measurements given as 16 x 21½ x 9. The rateable value of the whole building is noted in c.1838 as £11. By 1859 the rateable value of shop had risen to £5-5-0, and the occupant is recorded as a James McClelland, who held the lease directly from the Gunning / Moore estate. By 1862 McClelland had vacated the shop and was renting it to an Andrew Bond, and a year later, to a Peter Mullen. James Campbell became tenant in 1874, followed by a James McVeigh in 1877 (probably the same James McVeigh who acquired nos.62 and 64, HB09/13/011E-F, in 1880). In 1880 the lease was acquired by William Morgan, the occupant / leaseholder of no.60. In 1928 the lease passed to, (or was acquired by), the abovementioned James McVeigh, with a Margaret McVeigh recorded as leaseholder and occupant in 1936, and a Madge McCorry succeeding her in 1969. References- Primary sources 1 ‘Pigot & Co's Provincial Directory of Ireland’, (Manchester, 1824) 2 PRONI OS/9/10/1 OS plan of Cookstown, 1833 3 PRONI VAL/1B/622A First valuation, Derryloran parish, 1834-c.1838 4 PRONI VAL/1D/6/2 Valuation plan of Cookstown, c.1838 5 PRONI VAL/2C/63 Second valuation, Union of Cookstown (Dublin, 1859) [This is the printed version of the second valuation. The handwritten version (which may have been more detailed and include property dimensions etc.) no longer exists. The printed volume merely provides names of tenants and leaseholders, and rateable values.] 6 PRONI VAL/2D/6/3/1-2 Valuation plan of Cookstown, 1859-82 [2 sheets] 7 PRONI VAL/12B/37/5A Annual valuation revision book, Cookstown ED, 1860-63 8 PRONI VAL/12B/37/5B Annual valuation revision book, Cookstown ED, 1864-68 9 PRONI VAL/12B/37/5C Annual valuation revision book, Cookstown ED, 1868-81 10 PRONI VAL/12B/37/5D Annual valuation revision book, Cookstown ED, 1881 11 PRONI VAL/12B/37/5E Annual valuation revision book, Cookstown ED, 1881 12 PRONI VAL/12B/37/5F Annual valuation revision book, Cookstown ED, 1882-90 13 PRONI VAL/12B/37/5G Annual valuation revision book, Cookstown ED, 1882-88 14 PRONI VAL/12B/37/5J Annual valuation revision book, Cookstown ED, 1889-94 [The reference number for this book is out of sequence in the PRONI catalogue- the dates it covers are actually earlier than VAL/12B/37/5H.] 15 PRONI VAL/12B/37/5H Annual valuation revision book, Cookstown ED, 1895-99 16 PRONI VAL/12B/37/5K Annual valuation revision book, Cookstown ED, 1889-99 17 PRONI VAL/12E/171/1/1-2 Valuation plan of Cookstown, 1892-97 [2 sheets] 18 PRONI OS/33/1/1-5 OS plan of Cookstown, 1895 [5 sheets] 19 PRONI OS/9/10/2/1-2 OS plan of Cookstown, index map, 1895 [2 sheets] 20 PRONI OS/9/10/3/1-5 OS plan of Cookstown, 1895 [5 sheets] 21 PRONI VAL/12E/171/2/1-3 Valuation plan of Cookstown, 1897-1910 [3 sheets] 22 PRONI VAL/12B/37/7A Annual valuation revision book, Cookstown ED, 1901-07 23 PRONI VAL/12B/37/7B Annual valuation revision book, Cookstown ED, 1909-15 24 PRONI OS/33/2/1-4 OS plan, 1909 & 1918 [4 sheets] 25 PRONI VAL/12B/37/7C Annual valuation revision book, Cookstown ED, 1916-29 26 PRONI VAL/3G/142/1 /1-4 Valuation plan of Cookstown, 1936-37 [4 sheets] 27 PRONI VAL/3C/7/8 First general revaluation of Northern Ireland, Cookstown Urban, 1936-57 28 PRONI VAL/3G/142/2/1-4 Valuation plan of Cookstown, 1937-51 29 PRONI VAL/4B/6/10 Second general revaluation of Northern Ireland, Cookstown Urban vol.1, 1956-72 30 PRONI VAL/4B/6/11 Second general revaluation of Northern Ireland, Cookstown Urban vol.2E, 1956-72 Secondary sources 1 Oram, R.W. and Rankin, P.J., Historic buildings…Dungannon & Cookstown (Belfast, UAHS, 1971)

Criteria for Listing

Architectural Interest

A. Style B. Proportion C. Ornamentation H-. Alterations detracting from building

Historic Interest

X. Local Interest

Evaluation

This is an early Victorian house with a later Victorian shop front, built as one of a group of two (with HB09/13/011D). Despite some inappropriate alteratoins, the front façade with its increasingly rare Victorian shopfront, has definite character and grouip value with the buildings either side.

General Comments

Date of Survey

12 November 2007