Historic Building Details

HB Ref No:
HB20/13/010

Address :
Summerseat 119A Dunadry Road Dunadry Antrim Co Antrim BT41 4QJ

Townland:
Shaneoguestown

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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:
112/7

IG Ref:
J1824 8477

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Owner Category

Private

Exterior Description And Setting

A two-storey, four-bay rendered and gabled house. It comprises a two-storey, three-bay natural slated house with symmetrical entrance front, which has had an adjoining asbestos slated outbuilding incorporated into it at ground floor level with storage accommodation over. Main entrance faces south. South elevation: roof slated, with Bangor blue slates in regular courses to three bays to right, and with asbestos slates to left-hand end bay; dark toned ridge tiles; two chimneys, of modern brickwork, with modern pots. Walls smooth cement rendered, lined and blocked with projecting moulded eaves course, and quoins to extremities. Moulded cast iron gutter in poor condition, with cast iron downpipe at left-hand end returning to west elevation; supporting eaves course broken off at right-hand extremity. Windows to ground floor to each side of entrance are rectangular timber sliding sash, vertically hung, of tripartite arrangement, 6 over 6 to central light and 2 over 2 to side lights, all without horns, in poor condition, set in stop-chamfered reveals with a projecting rendered cill and surmounted by drip mouldings ornamented with paterae. Windows to first floor are similarly sashed but of reduced height, 3 over 6 flanked by 1 over 2, and without drip mouldings. Window in ground floor of left-hand end bay is a small rectangular timber fixed light with top-hung vent, set in plain reveals with a rendered hood moulding broken off. The entrance is in an elliptical-arched surround, stop-chamfered, surmounted by a drip moulding as previous to ground floor windows, recessed within an open rectangular flat roofed porch with smooth rendered finish inside and outside, and painted white to inside; modern red tiled area within porch. Doorway contains a modern rectangular timber 4-panel door flanked by rectangular single-pane sidelights, and surmounted by a radial fanlight; modern translucent glazing, now broken, and all woodwork modern replacement. West gable is rendered with a wet dash of black stone chippings, with a vertical strip of smooth render to right-hand extremity, which is the side of the entrance front quoins. Overhanging eaves with timber barge boards, in poor condition. Cast iron downpipe to right-hand side stopping short of ground. Two windows to first floor: rectangular metal framed set in plain reveals with recessed cills; one to left appears to be in a partly built-up doorway, now rendered as gable, with trace of exterior steps now removed apart from concrete base. Ground floor window is a large modern rectangular timber fixed light with top-hung vents, set in plain reveals, with projecting rendered cill. Rear elevation is two-storey: roof slated as to entrance front; wall rendered as previous to west gable; cast iron gutter and downpipes stopping short of ground. Five windows to first floor: four are rectangular timber sliding sash, 6 over 6, without horns, with exposed sash boxes, and projecting concrete cills; window to extreme right is a smaller rectangular timber 4-pane fixed light or casement. Two windows to ground floor: a large rectangular timber sliding sash, 6 over 6 with margin lights, without horns, in poor condition, and a smaller sashed window, 2 over 2 with horns; to extreme right is a deeply recessed rectangular timber glazed and sheeted door with two concrete steps. Projecting forward from main rear wall to left is a lower lean-to block with slated roof in poor condition; rainwater goods and render as main rear wall; two windows, metal framed with small-panes and timber with small panes, in poor condition. West side of lean-to has a deeply recessed rectangular timber 4-panel door, set in plain reveals; east side has a metal paned window. East gable of house and east side of lean-to projection are smooth cement rendered, lined and blocked, with quoins to left-hand extremity. Overhanging eaves to main gable, with timber barge boards on a pair of shaped timber brackets; flush verge to lean-to extension to right. One window to ground floor of main gable, as previous to main ground floor windows of entrance front; cast iron soil pipes. SETTING: The building stands facing the main road but set well back from it within its own grounds and farmland. Approach from main road is by a tree-lined tarmac driveway which ends in a large tarmac area in front of house, and branches off to the east to a new house built close by. Projecting from the entrance front near left-hand end is a short rendered screen wall connecting with an iron gateway linked to a single storey rendered and gabled outbuilding to the south-west. To west and north is a tarmac and concrete farmyard surrounded by rendered outbuildings of no architectural interest. To the east is a grassy lawn leading to the new house.

Architects

Not Known

Historical Information

Precise date of building not known but a building appears on the site on the OS map of 1832, unnamed; named 'Brownstown' on the OS map of 1857; later re-named 'Summerseat'. This may have been a single storey cottage originally, which was subsequently enlarged and raised a storey by the mid-19th century. Its ground floor layout is a development of the traditional hearth-lobby layout with the jamb wall separating the front entrance from the original hearth position. Owned by James L. Drummond until 1984 when taken over by the present owner's family. References – Primary Sources 1. OS Map 1832, Co Antrim 50 (a building is shown not named). 2. OS Map 1857, Co Antrim 50 (named 'Brownstown'). 3. OS Map 1921, Co Antrim 50 (named 'Summerseat').

Criteria for Listing

Architectural Interest

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

Historic Interest

X. Local Interest

Evaluation

This is a building of what appears to be early-to-mid 19th century date. It has a formalised entrance front in the Georgian tradition, beyond which is a ground floor layout developed from a vernacular type. It has, however, lost a number of original features and suffered many inappropriate alterations with a subsequent loss of original character.

General Comments

Date of Survey

10 June 2000