Description

STRETE STRETE SX 84 NW 5/243 Summerhill including 20.4.89 garden area wall to South

II

Small house. Circa 1835, extended in C2O. Stone rubble stuccoed at front and on west side, the front having masonry lining low-pitched hipped asbestos tile roof with red clay ridge tiles. Painted brick stacks at sides. Plan: Double depth rectangular plan with 2 principal rooms at the front, a central entrance hall with a dog-leg staircase at the back. Behind the left hand room a smaller unheated room was the pantry; the right hand room extends through to the back but originally a small unheated room was probably partitioned off at the back. The kitchen is in a 2-storey wing at the centre at the back with a stack on the right hand side. In the C20 a single storey extension containing a new kitchen was built on the left side of the original kitchen and a conservatory was built on the left side of the main block. Exterior: 2 storeys. Symmetrical 3-window south east front. Plain band at first floor level. Original early C19 2-light French casements with glazing bars and margin panes and with moulded wooden cornice hoods over. The first floor windows with C20 facsimile wrought iron balconies. Central doorway with original panelled door, the top panels now glazed and with C20 facsimile wrought iron porch with a tent-shaped canopy. On the left hand side a C20 conservatory. On the right hand side a lean-to garage that might have been the coach house. At the back a hipped roof wing with a stack on the left side and a C20 single storey extension to its right. Including C19 garden area wall in front, local stone rubble with cemented rubble coping, pedestrian gateway at centre with flight of stone steps. Interior: Retains most of its original joinery including panelled doors and a dog-leg staircase with stick balusters moulded newel posts and a moulded hand rail. The chimneypieces in the qround floor front rooms have been replaced but there is an original single chimneypiece in the first floor left hand front room with a bracketed shelf. There is no moulded plasterwork.

Listing NGR: SX8427047158

External Links

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  Department for Communities Listed Historic Buildings of Northern Ireland: Information Guide for the 2nd Survey of Historic Buildings