Survey Data
Reg No
15307028
Rating
Regional
Categories of Special Interest
Architectural, Artistic, Historical
Original Use
Worker's house
In Use As
House
Date
1800 - 1820
Coordinates
230621, 259303
Date Recorded
21/07/2004
Date Updated
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Description
Semi-detached four-bay single-storey former canal worker's house, built c.1810. Now in use as private residence. One of four similar structures on Harbour Street. Pitched artificial slate roof with cast-iron rainwater goods, projecting eaves course and rendered chimneystacks. Ruled-and-line rendered walls over projecting plinth with raised block quoins to corners. Square-headed window openings with rendered surrounds, cut stone sills and replacement windows. Square-headed doorcase to centre with cut stone block-and-start surrounds and replacement door. Road-fronted.
Appraisal
An attractive modest-scale cottage, almost of vernacular appearance, which retains its early form and character. It is one of four similarly designed and built houses along Harbour Road. The block-and-start doorcase door is a characteristic feature of the streetscape of Ballynacarrigy. According to local information, this building was originally constructed as a canal worker's house serving Ballynacarrigy Harbour to the south. The Royal Canal was built as far as Ballynacarrigy by 1810 and much of the town dates to a period of rapid expansion and prosperity brought about by canal trade in the early nineteenth-century.