Historic Building Details

HB Ref No:
HB11/15/003 A

Address :
Crevenagh House, 44 Crevenagh Road, Omagh, Co.Tyrone, BT79 0EH

Townland:
Creevenagh

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Survey 2:
B1

Date of Listing:
08/01/1981 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:
138-1

IG Ref:
H4610 7215

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Owner Category

Private

Exterior Description And Setting

Detached three-bay two-storey rendered house, built c. 1840, with single-storey entrance porch (c.1880), two-bay two-storey return to southeast, single-bay two-storey wing to the northeast (built c.1880). Rectangular-on-plan facing west, located to the east of Crevenagh Road, in extensive landscaped grounds. Hipped natural slate roofs throughout, U-plan with central well to the main body of the house with half-round ridge tiles. Behind the front pitch is a pair of symmetrically-placed rendered chimneystacks, having raised-and-fielded panels and decorative clay pots, with three further slender stone ashlar stacks to the rear pitch with moulded coping and octagonal clay pots. Roof is hipped to the northeast wing with raised lead ridges and a central rendered chimneystack with octagonal clay pots. To the southeast return the roof is half-hipped, set below the eaves of the rear of the main body of the house with lead ridges and a large rendered chimneystack with octagonal clay pots. The roof to the main house has overhanging eaves on paired brackets, with incorporated guttering and square-profile cast-iron downpipes. To the northeast return, the roof meets a decorative moulded cast-iron gutter resting on a moulded eaves course with round cast-iron downpipes. Walling is generally ruled-and-lined cement render with rusticated render quoins to the corners of the main house, and a projecting plinth course. Windows are square-headed with stone sills and moulded architraves surrounds to the south, west and east elevations, all having timber sash windows. Symmetrical three-bay two-storey principal elevation with central single-bay single-storey flat-roofed entrance porch. Tripartite timber sash windows comprising 6/6 flanked by 4/4 timber sashes. To the ground floor the openings have a plain frieze and cornice over. The central entrance porch is canted and has overhanging eaves supported on diminutive brackets to a moulded drip course and a further Roman cement moulding below. A bipartite window opening to the front of the porch has 4/4 timber sash windows and a central sash box. To both side elevations of the porch is a square-headed door opening with an elaborate Roman cement doorcase comprising an architrave surround flanked by a pair of semi-pilasters surmounted by a plain frieze and moulded cornice. A later glazed timber door to the south opening, blocked up to the north. North side elevation is also three-bay with 6/6 timber sash windows to the side bays (that to the east ground floor has a replacement uPVC window), while the central bay is wider, containing a tripartite window to the first floor and a bipartite to the ground floor, with a plain frieze and cornice to the ground floor only. A flat-roofed corridor connects the main house with the northeast wing, slightly recessed with running cornice, having a doorcase, as per the front entrance porch, with a glazed timber panelled door opening onto a pair of rounded stone steps. The northeast wing has a pair of window openings to the first floor with architrave surrounds and single-pane timber sash windows. To the ground floor is a three-sided canted bay with a running cornice and three window openings, each having architrave surrounds and single-pane timber sash windows on a continuous stone sill course. The rear east elevation of the main body of the house is abutted by the connecting corridor and the southeast return. This elevation is finished in an earlier rough-cast render (with brickwork evident), and a round-headed stair-hall timber sash window visible. The rear east elevation to the northeast wing and southeast return contains several square-headed window openings with later single-pane timber sash windows to the northeast wing and earlier 6/3 timber sash windows to the southeast return. A square-headed door opening with timber glazed door opens into an enclosed rear yard with some lean-to sheds and a pair of tall rendered piers. The south elevation comprises a further three-bays to the main body of the house, as per the north side elevation, with a lower three-bay two-storey elevation to the return, set slightly back. The windows to the main house are as per the north side elevation, while the return contains 6/3 timber sash windows. Setting:- Set on an elevated landscaped site, the front porch opens onto a front gravel area which continues to the south as a winding avenue before returning to the north towards the main road and the gate lodge (HB11/15/003C). To the southeast of the house is a detached three-bay single-storey stone garden structure with a front railed area. Hipped natural slate roof with raised lead ridges and plastic rainwater goods. Coursed stone walling to front elevation, rough-cast render over redbrick to other elevations. A central square-headed window opening with stone ashlar surround and a central carved keystone is flanked to either side by a pair of square-headed door openings with stone ashlar surrounds and vertically-sheeted timber Further to the southeast is an enclosed farmyard with a two-storey multi-bay range of outbuildings (HB11/15/003B) and an extensive walled garden. Roof Natural slate Walling Cement render Windows Timber sash RWG Cast-iron

Architects

Not Known

Historical Information

The property first appears captioned ‘Creevenagh House’ on the second edition OS Map (1854). A ‘Gate Lodge’ and ‘Summer House’ are also captioned and outbuildings and a formal garden are shown. Griffith’s Valuation lists the property as a house, offices, gate lodge and land, being occupied by the Hon Andrew Stewart and leased from Thomas Auchinleck and value it at £60.0.0. In the Valuation Revisions the occupiers are the Auchinleck family throughout and the value rises to £78.10.0, then £80.10.0 in 1871 and £84.10.0 in 1883 when a new addition is built. Rowan comments; “Built by the Auchinleck family, presumably about 1810, long, low, and two-storeyed, rendered, with stone quoins and wide overhanging eaves. Three-bay, though given unusual scale by the use of tri-partite windows throughout, with a polygonal single-storey central porch. The interior is unusually handsome: a complete neo-classical villa with a double return staircase symmetrically planned on the axis of the hall, fine Grecian plasterwork, and a heavily architectural character to the doors and fireplaces of the main rooms. The hall floor is paved in Italian marble – black, white and terracotta-red with scenes of the seven ages of man.” (p.449) Dean mentions that the most famous son of the Auchinleck family was to be Field Marshall Sir Claude John Eyre Auchinleck. (p.140) Primary Sources: PRONI OS/6/6/35/1-3 – Ordnance Survey Maps (1833, 1854, 1906) PRONI VAL/2/B/6/28 – Griffith’s Valuation (1856-64) PRONI VAL/1/A/6/35 – Townland Valuation Map PRONI VAL/2/B/626/B – Townland Valuation Records (1828-40) PRONI VAL/12/D/6/41/36/A-L – Annual Revision Records (1860-1929) Secondary Sources: Dean, J A K ‘The Gate Lodges of Ulster – A Gazetteer’, Ulster Architectural Heritage Society, 1994 Rowan, A ‘The Buildings of Ireland: North West Ulster’, Penguin Books, 1979

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 J. Setting K. Group value

Historic Interest

X. Local Interest

Evaluation

Detached three-bay two-storey rendered house, built c. 1840. Rectangular-on-plan facing west in extensive landscaped grounds. Of early nineteenth-century origin, this symmetrical house was enlarged and embellished in the late nineteenth-century with the addition of the porch, the northeast wing, connecting corridor and the construction of the gate lodge and garden structure. The window mouldings and the tripartite windows are also likely to date from this period. A picturesque garden structure and substantial range of outbuildings arranged around an enclosed yard (HB11/15/003B) add to its interest.

General Comments

This record was previously HB11/15/003

Date of Survey

11 February 2009