Survey Data
Reg No
15401205
Rating
Regional
Categories of Special Interest
Architectural
Previous Name
Portnashangan School
Original Use
House
In Use As
House
Date
1800 - 1840
Coordinates
241918, 259663
Date Recorded
20/11/2004
Date Updated
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Description
Detached five-bay two-storey, built c.1830, recently renovated. Two-storey return to rear (southwest). Pitched natural slate roof and two rendered chimneystacks with brick detailing and terracotta chimney pots. Roughcast rendered walls over smooth rendered plinth. Square-headed window openings with two-over-two pane timber sliding sash windows and cut stone sills. Central square-headed doorcase with replacement door and canopy over supported on stone brackets. Set well back from the road in own grounds with single-storey outbuilding with segmental-headed carriage arches to southeast.
Appraisal
A plain middle-sized house of early-to-mid nineteenth-century appearance. It retains its early character and form despite recent extensive, if sympathetic, renovations. A 'school house' is indicated in this location on a 1838 map of the area, suggesting that this structure may have been a school house in the past or, perhaps, that this structure incorporates the fabric of an earlier building. Indeed, this building may have been converted to a private dwelling, c.1847, after Ballynafid national school was completed a short distance to the northwest. The attractive single-storey outbuilding to the southeast completes this composition.