house — MULLAN

The saved account records: Detached three-bay single-storey lobby-entry vernacular farmhouse, built c.1800, with projecting windbreak entrance, integral outhouse under same roof added c.1850.

The saved account records: Pitched corrugated-iron roof, brick chimneystack, rendered barges, cast-iron rainwater goods.

The saved account records: Whitewashed rubble stone walls on rendered plinth to front, battered base to gable.

The saved account records: Farm building attached to west gable and further outbuildings to west having pitched and lean-to corrugated iron roofs, rubble-stone walls with battered plinths.

house — MULLAN matters for the exact reasons given in its official assessment, rather than merely because it is an old structure. The source records: A formerly thatched traditional two-roomed house of hearth-lobby plan type, set in an L-plan vernacular courtyard. The house and outbuilding display traditional vernacular features, including windows at varying heights, an outbuilding under the same roof as the house, and a corrugated-iron roof that probably replaced thatch. The interior retains features including hearth, splayed windows, timber lintels and half and full battened doors. It is an excellent example of a building type that was once numerous and is now sadly rapidly disappearing. The group stands at a prominent road location and makes a strong… This explains what the place adds to local life, the street or the surviving built history.