Historic Building Details

HB Ref No:
HB10/11/001 E

Address :
Laundry at Holy Hill House, 78 Ballee Road, Artigarvan, Strabane, Co. Tyrone, BT82 0AA

Townland:
Holyhill

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Survey 2:
B1

Date of Listing:
19/09/1986 00:00:00

Date of De-listing:

Current Use:
Outbuildings

Former Use
Outbuildings

Conservation Area:
No

Industrial Archaeology:
No

Vernacular:
No

Thatched:
No

Monument:
No

Derelict:
No

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OS Map No:
60-13

IG Ref:
H3838 9982

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Owner Category

Private

Exterior Description And Setting

Two-storey, two-bay former laundry building built c.1810 and remodelled c.1870. Rectangular in plan with laundry on ground floor and coachmen’s house on the first floor. Situated at the south end of the enclosed farmyard to Holy Hill House (HB10/11/001A), a country house with demesne situated north-east of Strabane town. Pitched natural slate roof and limewashed random rubble walls with painted plinth. Windows are generally timber sliding sash with exposed boxes and no sills. No rainwater goods. The front (north) elevation features a central 2/2 window at first floor level. Centrally placed painted timber sheeted door with 4/4 window to its right and a smaller painted timber sheeted door to left. The eastern end is enclosed by the farmyard wall. South elevation is exposed random rubble (formerly and internal wall, extension now partially removed). The west elevation has a replacement timber casement to ground floor, 4/2. Sash to attic, timber lintel and abuts forge building(HB10/11/001F). Setting Holy Hill house and its associated outbuildings lie in the established Holy Hill demesne with lawns, mature parkland and farmland, situated on undulating land to the north-east of Strabane town Roof: Pitched natural slate Walling: Whitewashed rubble Windows: Replacement (salvaged) Rainwater goods: None

Architects

Not Known

Historical Information

The building that is now identified as a laundry appears on all three editions of the OS Map (1833, 1854, 1905). However, according to a marginal note in the Valuation Revisions, “Laundry built 3 years [ago]”, the building underwent major remodelling in 1872 that converted it to a laundry. The laundry added £3 to the value of the house and buildings, a relatively substantial increase in value for the time. It is possible that the tongue and groove sheeting throught the laundry and accommodation was added around this time, leading to the increase in value of the building. During the 1870s Holy Hill was owned by William Sinclair (d.1899), son of James, who had served as High Sheriff in Co. Donegal in 1854 and became Deputy Lieutenant of Tyrone in 1876. References: Primary Sources 1. PRONI T.1652 – Sir Josias Bodley’s plantation maps of all baronies in Co Tyrone 2. PRONI T/371/H – Civil Survey Barony of Strabane (1655-67) 3. PRONI D597/4/1 Petty’s Down Survey maps (c1655-75) 4. PRONI D1854/1/23 – Book of Survey and Distribution (c.1680) 5. PRONI D623/D/1/6 – Abercorn papers – map of Gortcrone c1720-1750 6. PRONI D623/A/15/441 – Abercorn Papers – Letter from Abercorn to Nisbitt (13 Jan 1756) 7. PRONI T2541/1A/1/4/89 – Letter from Sinclair to Abercorn (1757) 8. PRONI D623/A/43/147 – Abercorn papers – letter from Mrs Elizabeth Sinclair to Abercorn (1779) 9. PRONI D623/D/1/22 – Abercorn papers – map of manor of Cloghogle (Jan 1804) 10. PRONI OS/6/6/5/1-3 – Ordnance Survey Maps (1833, 1854, 1905) 12. PRONI VAL/1/A/6/5 – Townland Valuation Map(1828-40) 13. PRONI VAL/1/B/640 – Townland Valuation Records (1828-40) 14. PRONI VAL/2/A/6/5 – Griffith’s Valuation Map (1856-64) 15. PRONI VAL/2/B/6/43B – Griffith’s Valuation (1856-64) 16. PRONI VAL/12/B/42/22A-F – Annual Revision Records (1860-1925) Secondary Sources 1. Bence-Jones, Mark. “A Guide to Irish Country Houses.” Second Revised Edition. London: Constable and Robinson, 1990. 2. Bradley, J, etc. “The Fair River Valley – Strabane Through the Ages.” Belfast: Ulster Historical Foundation, 2000 3. Day, A. and P. McWilliams, eds. “OS Memoirs of Ireland, Parishes of County Tyrone I, 1821, 1823, 1833-36, Vol . 5.” Belfast: Institute of Irish Studies, 1990. 4. Day, A. and P. McWilliams, eds. “OS Memoirs of Ireland, Parishes of County Tyrone II, 1825, 1833-5, 1840, Vol. 20.” Belfast: Institute of Irish Studies, 1990. 5. Diocesan Histories 6. Dooher, J. “Commit They Work to God: The History and Times of the Sinclairs of Hollyhill.” In Concordia (1995). Cited in “The Sinclairs of Holy Hill.” Chap. In “Bready Ancestry: Bready and District Ulster-Scots Development Association. Http://www/breadyancestry.com/index.ph?id=35. Accessed 17 March 2009. 7. Hutchinson, W. R. “Tyrone Precinct: A History of the Plantation Settlement of Dungannon and Mountjoy to Modern Times. Belfast: W. Erskine Mayne, Ltd., 1951.” 8. Lewis, Samuel. “A Topographical Dictionary of Ireland, Comprising the Several Counties, Cities, Boroughs, Corporate, Market, and Post Towns, Parishes, and Villages, With Historical and Statistical Descriptions; Embellished with Engravings of the Arms of the Cities, Bishopricks, Corporate Towns, and Boroughs; Of the Seals of the Several Municipal Corporations.” London: S. Lewis & Co., 1837 9. Reid, Thomas. Travels in Ireland in the Year 1822, Exhibiting Brief Sketches of Moral, Physical, and Political State of the Country: With Reflections of the Best Means of Improving Its Condition. London: Longman, Hurst, Rees, Orme, and Brown, 1823. 10. Roulston, William J. “The Parishes of Leckpatrick and Dunnalong: Their Place in History.” Strabane, Co. Tyrone: Self-published, 2000. 11. Rowan, Alistair. “North West Ulster: Londonderry, Donegal, Fermanagh, and Tyrone.” Buildings of Ireland Series. Dublin: Penguin Books, 1979. 12. Sinclair Monument, photo in Dillon, Charles and Henry A. Jefferies, ed. “Tyrone: History and Society.” Templeogue, Dublin: Geography Publications, 2000. 13. “The Sinclairs of Holy Hill.” Chap. In “Bready Ancestry: Bready and District Ulster-Scots Development Association. Http://www/breadyancestry.com/index.ph?id=35. Accessed 17 March 2009. 14. “Our Love Families.” Http://www.love-genealogy.com/love-genealogy-generation-07.htm. Accessed 2 March 2009. 15. Young, Robert Magill. “Belfast and the Province of Ulster in the Twentieth Century.” Pike's New Century Series, ed. W. T. Pike. Brighton: W. T. Pike, 1909. 16. “The Parish of Leckpatrick: A Brief History.” Undated packet. 17. “The Church,” “Monuments,” “The Parish,” In “The Area.” “Church of Ireland Church of St. Patrick, Parish of Leckpatrick.”

Criteria for Listing

Architectural Interest

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

Historic Interest

X. Local Interest Z. Rarity

Evaluation

A well detailed two-storey vernacular outbuilding, built in the early nineteenth century and converted to use as a laundry c.1870. The building retains its style and proportions and forms part of an extensive group of ancillary structures associated with Holy Hill House, a substantial country house dating from the Plantation era(HB10/11/001A-L). The building is constructed of rubble stone in traditional style, using local materials. Although some elements have been replaced, the changes have been sympathetically carried out using salvaged materials. The building makes a positive impact to the demesne and the outbuildings, as a group, reflect the evolving needs and efficiencies assocaited with the running of a large estate. Has group value with the other listed structures at Holy Hill.

General Comments

This record has been renumbered - previously HB10/11/001O

Date of Survey

19 March 2009