Survey Data
Reg No
11822027
Rating
Regional
Categories of Special Interest
Architectural, Historical, Social
Original Use
House
Date
1830 - 1870
Coordinates
279551, 195905
Date Recorded
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Date Updated
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Description
Detached six-bay two-storey rubble stone house, c.1850. Reroofed, c.1930. Now disused and derelict. Gable-ended roof. Replacement corrugated-iron, c.1930, on timber construction (part collapsed to south). Iron ridge tiles. Rendered chimney stacks. Rainwater goods now missing. Random rubble stone walls with yellow brick sections. Limewashed with traces of lime render to south. Square-headed window openings. Stone sills (no sills to some openings to north). Timber lintels. Rendered surrounds to openings to south. Now boarded-up. Square-headed door openings. Rendered surrounds. Fittings now gone. Road fronted. Concrete footpath to front.
Appraisal
This house, possibly originally built as two separate houses or possibly originally built with an integral outbuilding incorporated in to the bays to north, is an attractive an imposing feature on the streetscape of the road leading out of Ballitore to the south - originally part of a terrace of buildings, the house remains as a stand-alone reminder of the development of the village. The house is of social and historic interest, representing the continued expansion of the Quaker settlement in the mid nineteenth century. Now disused and in an advanced state of dereliction, the house nevertheless retains much of its original form and character. Built of rubble stone (with brick sections), having lime render over, and composed of irregularly displaced openings, the house is in keeping with the modest, unrefined quality of the majority of the building stock in the historic core of the village.