Survey Data
Reg No
40905423
Rating
Regional
Categories of Special Interest
Architectural
Original Use
House
In Use As
House
Date
1880 - 1900
Coordinates
226698, 413728
Date Recorded
18/01/2011
Date Updated
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Description
Detached three-bay two-storey house, built c. 1890, having two-storey extension to the rear (south-east). Pitched natural slate roof with overhanging eaves with exposed timber purlins to gable ends, and with yellow brick chimneystacks to gable ends with rendered cornice coping over. Roughcast rendered walls over recessed smooth rendered plinth course. Segmental-headed window openings to main elevation (north-west) with painted concrete sills, smooth rendered reveals and two-over-two pane timber sliding sash windows. Central segmental-headed door opening with smooth rendered reveals, replacement timber panelled entrance door, and having plain fanlight over. Set back from road in own grounds in an elevated site in the rural countryside to the north-east of Manorcunningham. Complex of single-storey outbuildings to the rear (south-east) having pitched natural slate roofs, roughcast rendered walls, and square-headed openings with timber fittings. House site bounded to the west by roughcast rendered boundary wall with smooth rendered coping over. Gateway to the west having a pair of roughcast rendered gate piers (on square-plan) having projecting smooth rendered plinth to base and with moulded smooth rendered coping over, and with a pair of wrought-iron gates having decorative cast-iron finials. Tree lined avenue to approach.
Appraisal
This simple but well-proportioned house, of late-nineteenth century appearance, retains its early form and character. Its visual expression and integrity are enhanced by the retention of salient fabric such as the natural slate roof and timber sliding sash windows. The segmental-headed openings are a feature of many buildings of its type and date, and give this building the appearance of a contemporary parochial house. This building appears to have replaced an earlier house at this site, which was located a short distance to the south of the current edifice. The outbuildings to site add to the context while the attractive gateway to the west with rendered piers and wrought-iron gates with cast-iron finials add significantly to this composition. Occupying mature grounds in the rural countryside to the north-east of Manorcunningham, this building makes a positive contribution to the landscape and is an element of the built heritage of the local area. This may have been the home of a John McKinley Junior in 1894 (Slater’s Directory).