Historic Building Details

HB Ref No:
HB01/26/002

Address :
Elagh Hall 9 Elagh Road Londonderry BT48 8LU

Townland:
Elagh More

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Survey 2:
B2

Date of Listing:
26/02/1979 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:
26/11

IG Ref:
C4121 2138

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Owner Category

Private

Exterior Description And Setting

A 1½ storey, 5 bay wide entrance facade with chamfered projecting 2 storey porch, roughcast rendered and colour washed, with 1½ storey back return. The symmetrical facade has entrance door in centre of porch with moulded and lugged plaster surround with small keystone. Above it a round headed window with similar plaster surround and keystone with radiating astragals and modern inserts below. Similar windows are repeated on return walls at first floor. Pair of 12 pane sliding sash windows on either side on porch, again with matching moulded and lugged surrounds with small keystone. Cills are low to ground. Above these windows a single sliding sash 2 pane window centred over the windows below and similarly treated with surrounds. These windows form dormers set in the same place as the wall below. The external angles of the porch are chamfered or canted and under the eaves a smooth band of rendering as a frieze. A similar band of smooth rendering forms the narrow clasping quoins which are also repeated at the dormers. The external rendering is of a much later date than the house and the window cills have been extended in concrete to provide a stop for the surrounds. The porch has flanking windows on ground floor. The gables are half hipped with the hips projecting slightly between the tallish wide chimney stacks on each side.le. There are a pair of sliding sash 2 pane windows without surrounds at first floor on west gable. The pair on the east gable have surrounds and are symmetrically placed below the half hip and between the chimneys. On the west gable there is a modern flat roofed conservatory and to the left hand side of it a single ground floor sliding sash 2 pane window. The back return on the west side has a modern large window at ground floor with a single dormer above, gabled with sliding sash 12 pane window, set almost in the corner, lighting the lounge. The first floor windows are similar to the west gable. The roofs have natural slates and likewise the dormers with plain ridge tiles and faceted roof to porch picking up the wall chamfer. There is no overhang and half round metal gutters are supported on metal brackets with circular downpipes in cast iron. The house is set on a hillside with a long winding avenue climbing steeply up to it from Elagh Road. It commands a fine prospect from the south. There are no gates or piers. To the rear of the house some outbuildings, with yard. Around 2 sides of the house a garden.

Architects

Not Known

Historical Information

The house is not shown on the 1830 OSS but the avenue is. It led to another house beyond the presentbut it is now demolished and was the residence of a Rev. George Gray who was Presbyterian minister of Burt, Co Donegal Presbyterian Church. The lessor at the time was W McCorkell valuation £7.80. Elagh Hall is shown on the 1850 OSS and the 1858 Griffith valuation records the occupant as still being the Rev. Gray and the lessor Wm McCorkell and valuation £18.00. ( This McCorkell would have been the founder of the shipping firm of William McCorkell & Co. He founded it with his brother Archibald, who was a ship captain and died in New York in 1829.)The overall layout of the house does not appear to have changed greatly since built and was probably built mid c1840s. The present family have been in occupation since 1946 when the family purchased the property of J.R. Montgomerie and before that a Mrs Gamble. References Primary Sources 1. O.S. map 1st Edition 1830 Co Londonderry 13 2. O.S. map 1st Revision 1853 Co Londonderry 13 3. 1st Val. 1831 Par. of Templemore, Co Londonderry 4. Griffith Val. 1858 Par. of Templemore, Co Londonderry Secondary Sources 1. Present owner - 1999 2. S Cooke “The Maiden City and the Western Ocean” P81.

Criteria for Listing

Architectural Interest

A. Style B. Proportion C. Ornamentation D. Plan Form I. Quality and survival of Interior J. Setting

Historic Interest

X. Local Interest

Evaluation

An early Victorian building in a provincial Georgian style, sited on a hillside, colour washed in yellow ochre with a symmetrical principal facade. Internally there are some good plaster mouldings, good door and window detailing and reasonable staircase. The back return has been marred by modern renovations.

General Comments

Date of Survey

05 May 1999