Survey Data
Reg No
41401833
Rating
Regional
Categories of Special Interest
Architectural
Previous Name
Lisnaveane House
Original Use
House
In Use As
House
Date
1770 - 1790
Coordinates
267411, 323750
Date Recorded
29/04/2012
Date Updated
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Description
Detached five-bay two-storey house, built c.1780, having slightly lower gabled two-storey entrance projection to middle bay to front (east) elevation, and single-bay two-storey addition slightly recessed to south end of front facade. Sprocketed hipped slate roof with clay ridge tiles, and paired brick chimneystacks. Pitched slate roof to entrance projection and to addition to south. Timber bargeboards to gables, and cast-iron rainwater goods. Recently roughcast rendered walls, with smooth rendered and painted plinth course, and with vertical border to corners. Square-headed window openings with replacement uPVC windows, rendered and painted reveals and painted stone sills. Round-headed window opening to first floor of entrance projection and addition. Square-headed replacement uPVC door to main entrance, opening onto stone platform with ornate cast-iron boot-scraper. Single-storey farm buildings surrounding farmyard to west, having pitched and mono-pitched slate roofs, lime-rendered walls, and square-headed window and door openings with recent timber fittings. Accessed by wrought-iron single-leaf pedestrian gate to north of house. Approach to house from north via square-plan tapered gate piers, gate missing. Situated south-west of rural country road, opposite Clover Hill and south-west of nearby Cahans Presbyterian Church.
Appraisal
An early nineteenth-century structure, Lisnaveane House has a symmetrical, ordered appearance. Though the windows have now been replaced the house house is classically proportioned, its attractive gable-fronted projections adding interest. The farmyard enhances the context.