Historic Building Details

HB Ref No:
HB19/05/122 A

Address :
84 Dromara Road Hillsborough County Down BT26 6PE

Townland:
Clogher

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Survey 2:
B2

Date of Listing:
23/03/1979 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:
184/10

IG Ref:
J2488 5632

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Owner Category

Private

Exterior Description And Setting

Semi-detached single-storey with attic stone house in a Tudor idiom, dated 1841. Rectangular on plan facing north with rendered single-storey with attic return added c.1970. Set back on the south side of Dromara Road, built as a single house with No.86 (HB19/05/122B). Pitched natural slate roof with black clay ridge tiles, two rebuilt redbrick chimneystacks with terracotta pots and plastic rainwater goods to deep timber eaves. Decorative timber bargeboard to west gable and flat dormer on front pitch. Snecked coursed rubblestone walling, cement pointing, rusticated ashlar quoins and painted brick surrounds to all openings. Camber-headed window openings with painted masonry hood mouldings, painted masonry sills and replacement timber casement windows. Front elevation has a central square-headed door opening flanked by window openings, all having painted masonry hood mouldings. Original herring-bone sheeted timber door with brass furniture and painted stone Downshire plaque above with raised lettering stating; '1841'. Door opens onto three semi-circular steps constructed with granite setts. East side elevation abutted by neighbouring house No.86 (HB19/05/122B). Rear elevation abutted by gable-ended single-storey with attic extension, built c.1970. Gabled west side elevation has a single window opening to each floor with a hood moulding to the ground floor only. Setting: Gravel front area and side parking area with front garden enclosed by low stone wall and modern iron railing. To the rear is a two-storey rendered former shed or outbuilding with pitched natural slate roof and uPVC windows. Roof Natural slate RWG Plastic Walling Snecked coursed rubblestone Windows Replacement timber casement

Architects

Not Known

Historical Information

No. 84 Dromara Road appears on the second edition of the Ordnance Survey maps for the area in 1859 situated on the road south of Large Park. A plaque, bearing the Downshire arms, is located above the front door of No.84 and records that both buildings were constructed in 1841. It is depicted on the map as a single dwelling at this time with 86 Dromara Road (HB19/05/122B); a small out office is shown to the rear of the house (later included with No. 86 after the dwelling was split). In 1861 Griffith’s Valuation records the occupant as a Mr. Daniel Murray who let the one and a half-storey house from the Marquis of Downshire at £17 per annum. Griffith records the property as a 1B class ‘house, offices and land.’ and valued the site at £3 10s. Daniel Murray occupied the house until 1874 when a Mr. Patrick Murray (an unknown relative) took over possession of the premises. Patrick lived at the house on the Dromara Road until 1900 when a Mr John Patrick Hogg, a Roman Catholic Farmer, occupied the house. The 1901 Census tells us that Hogg (24) lived at the house with his sister Elizabeth (20) and young brother William (12). The siblings lived close to their father John Hogg who lived in the same Townland with his oldest daughter Mary Ann Hogg (34), who worked as a seamstress. In 1911 John Patrick Hogg and his siblings still resided in the house which was recorded as a 3rd class house which consisted of four inhabited rooms. The small out office at the rear of the house depicted on the second and third editions of the Ordnance Survey maps (1859-1903) may have been used to house a stable, cow house, piggery or a fowl house which were recorded on the 1911 census building return. This out office does not appear on the fourth edition of the maps in 1919-20, however remnants of this small structure have been incorporated into a modern return which was built in the mid-twentieth century. By 1913 Hogg had bought the house outright and in 1919 the house was split into two dwellings, valued at £1 5s. It appears that Hogg converted the house into two separate dwelling so that he could let one out to lodgers; a note of 1919 states that he intended to charge rent of £3 per annum, however John Patrick Hogg was recorded as the occupant of both premises until the end of the Annual Revisions in 1929. In 1978 the first survey described both Nos. 84 and 86 Dromara road as a ‘single-storey double cottage with attic. Roof slated.’ The description stated that No. 84 had recently had a new dormer window installed and that recent additions had been added although it did not specify which house these latter additions pertained to. The 1972 Ordnance Survey map shows that an extension was built to the rear of the house and a modern garage built at some stage in the mid-twentieth century (although the exact date is unclear). No. 84 Dromara Road was listed in March 1979; since that date the house, roof and windows have been renovated and in 1991 the owners applied for planning permission to construct an extension; however field research has found that this does not appear to have been granted (NIEA File). References: Primary Sources 1. PRONI OS/6/3/21/1 – First Edition OS Map 1833 2. PRONI OS/6/3/21/2 – Second Edition OS Map 1859 3. PRONI OS/6/3/21/3 – Third Edition OS Map 1903 4. PRONI OS/6/3/21/4 – Fourth Edition OS Map 1919-1920 5. PRONI VAL/2/B/3/45A – Griffith’s Valuation 1861 6. PRONI VAL/12/B/20/5A – Annual Revisions 1866-1879 7. PRONI VAL/12/B/20/5B – Annual Revisions 1880-1892 8. PRONI VAL/12/B/20/5C – Annual Revisions 1893-1914 9. PRONI VAL/12/B/20/5D – Annual Revisions 1915-1929 10. Census of Ireland 1901 / 1911 Secondary Sources 1. NIEA File – HB19/05/122B.

Criteria for Listing

Architectural Interest

A. Style B. Proportion C. Ornamentation H-. Alterations detracting from building I. Quality and survival of Interior J. Setting K. Group value

Historic Interest

V. Authorship X. Local Interest

Evaluation

Semi-detached single-storey with attic stone house, dated 1841 located on the south side of Dromara Road. Despite the division of the house into two separate dwellings, the Tudor style favoured by many estate owners contributes to the building's interest. It also has group value with number 86 (HB19.05.122B).

General Comments

Please note this record has been renumbered it was previously recorded as HB19/05/122

Date of Survey

07 December 2010