Survey Data
Reg No
22808012
Rating
Regional
Categories of Special Interest
Architectural, Artistic
Original Use
House
Historical Use
Shop/retail outlet
In Use As
House
Date
1840 - 1880
Coordinates
196392, 99371
Date Recorded
09/07/2003
Date Updated
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Description
Detached four-bay single-storey house with half-dormer attic, c.1860, possibly originally two separate terraced three-bay single-storey (north) and single-bay single-storey (south) houses retaining some early fenestration. Renovated, c.1960, with window opening remodelled to right ground floor to accommodate commercial use. Extended, c.1985, comprising three-bay single-storey lean-to return to south-east. Now entirely in residential use. Pitched slate roof (gabled to half-dormer attic windows) with decorative red clay ridge tiles, red brick Running bond chimney stacks, decorative timber bargeboards to gables having terracotta finials to apexes, and cast-iron rainwater goods on rendered eaves. Lean-to artificial slate roof to return with plastic rainwater goods on timber eaves. Painted rendered walls with rendered stringcourse to first floor, and rendered band to eaves. Square-headed window openings to ground floor (remodelled, c.1960, to right ground floor) with rendered sills. Pointed-arch window openings to half-dormer attic with rendered sills, rendered pilaster surrounds, and rendered archivolts over having red brick voussoirs. 1/1 timber sash windows (replacement timber casement window, c.1985, to remodelled opening). Square-headed window openings to return with concrete sills, and timber casement windows. Square-headed door opening with rendered surround, roughcast panel over, and replacement glazed uPVC panelled door, c.2000. Road fronted with concrete footpath to front.
Appraisal
This house, believed to have been built as part of a group of terraced houses, remains an important feature in the centre of Ballyduff despite alterations in the latter part of the twentieth century. The house retains important salient features and materials, which contribute to the historic flavour of the site, and is distinguished by the rendered dressings to the half-dormer attic windows, which enhance the architectural and design qualities of the composition. The gables to the roof also serve to identify the composition in the street scene.