Survey Data
Reg No
41400423
Rating
Regional
Categories of Special Interest
Architectural, Social
Original Use
Worker's house
Date
1875 - 1885
Coordinates
270464, 346714
Date Recorded
28/03/2012
Date Updated
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Description
End-of-terrace two-bay two-storey house, built c.1880 as one of three, with single-bay first floor and to-bay ground floor. No longer in use. Pitched slate roof with red brick chimneystack and simple clay chimneypots, replacement rainwater goods and clay ridge tiles. Red brick walls laid in English garden wall bond having tooled block-and-start limestone quoins. Outline of outbuilding adjoining wall to rear (north-east) elevation. Gauged-brick square-headed window openings with render reveals, tooled limestone sills, and side-margined two-over-two pane timber sliding sash windows, blocked to ground floor to front (south-west) elevation. Gauged-brick square-headed door openings to front and rear, render reveal, timber battened door and over-light to front. Timber stairs and some fittings extant to interior.
Appraisal
This terrace of simple red brick houses adjoining the former post-office, shop and public house of the mill complex of Mullan were built to accommodate the workers in the flax and woollen mill. Although unoccupied (March 2012) this house retains much of its original form and character, with original side-margined timber sliding sash windows set in an unusual asymmetrical arrangement adding interest to the main elevation. The tooled limestone quoins further articulate the façade. Mullan is representative of the numerous mill villages which were constructed in Ulster throughout the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries. It was abandoned after the flax and woollen mill closed at the close of the 19th century. In the twentieth century, the mill returned to use as Mullan Mills Shoe Company and the houses were reoccupied.