Survey Data
Reg No
41401015
Rating
Regional
Categories of Special Interest
Architectural, Social
Previous Name
Tehallan Parochial School House
Original Use
School
Historical Use
Community centre
Date
1820 - 1825
Coordinates
271453, 335753
Date Recorded
26/03/2012
Date Updated
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Description
Detached six-bay single-storey school, dated 1821, having slightly advanced two middle bays with first floor above giving somewhat tower-like appearance. Formerly in use as community centre, now disused. Originally T-plan, now L-plan, with late nineteenth-century additions to north and rear (north-east). Hipped slate roof to main blocks, with pitched roof to entrance tower, gabled to south and having crenellated parapet to first floor part. Cast-iron rainwater goods. Coursed rubble stone walls, rendered to rear and first floor sides, having cut limestone quoins. Limestone date-plaque between middle bays. Pointed-arch window openings to middle bays and Tudor-arch openings to other front bays, having tooled limestone surrounds, and replacement timber door and windows. Square-headed window openings with painted render sills and replacement frames to additions. Rubble limestone boundary wall with wrought-iron single-leaf pedestrian gate to south opening to canal tow-path, and two recent metal gates to west.
Appraisal
Tyholland School was built with a legacy from the Rev. Dr. Maxwell of Falkland Castle. The building played an important social role in the area, educating students from 1821, and has a direct relationship with Saint Sillian's Church of Ireland church to the north-west, and with the old rectory to the west, with paths leading between these places. It is an attractive building, although the visual integrity of the site has been compromised by the construction of industrial premises to the north and west. The building is made distinctive by its stone facade and the castellated advanced middle bays, and by the varied forms of the openings, displaying skill and craftsmanship. The building faces south onto the Ulster Canal, constructed about 1837, and is visibly connected to the latter with masonry locks in close proximity to the east and west and a wrought-iron gate to the canal tow-path, the group forming an important part of the local architectural heritage.