Survey Data
Reg No
41401838
Rating
Regional
Categories of Special Interest
Architectural
Original Use
House
Date
1840 - 1860
Coordinates
267373, 323371
Date Recorded
27/05/2012
Date Updated
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Description
Detached three-bay two-storey house, built c.1860, having single-storey return to west. Now vacant. Hipped slate roof with clay ridge tiles, and cast-iron rainwater goods. Return having pitched slate roof, gabled to west end. Roughcast rendered brick walls laid in Flemish bond, with brick eaves course and brick walls to return. Square-headed window openings, having remains of three-over-six pane timber sliding sash windows to first floor with rendered sills and having nineteenth-century timber shutters visible to interior. Window openings to ground floor blocked up. Square-headed door opening to east elevation, with replacement timber panelled door, opening onto stone steps. Two square-headed door openings with double-leaf timber battened doors to return. Detached two-storey farm building to north-west, having hipped slate roof, coursed rubble limestone walls and cut-stone block-and-start quoins. Square-headed door openings with some timber battened doors. Attached single-bay single-storey building with pitched corrugated-iron roof and corrugated-iron-clad walls. Main approach from north-east. Located on hill to south of Lisnaveane House and Clover Hill, in close proximity to Cahans Presbyterian church.
Appraisal
This simple, yet attractive, house was built in the mid–late nineteenth century and retains many original features such as the timber sash windows to the first floor, and timber shutters. The house may have been associated with Lisnaveane House or Clover Hill to the north, both larger country houses with extensive farms likely to have had associated manager's and agent's houses. The main building, curiously, does not have any chimneystacks. Though now vacant, the building is of architectural interest due to its symmetrical layout, and nineteenth-century materials.