House in Lisdonny, County Monaghan

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Detached three-bay two-storey vernacular house, built c.1870, with single-storey ancillary farm buildings to rear (west). Now vacant. Pitched natural slate roof with red brick chimneystacks to gable ends. Carved timber bargeboards to gables, and cast-iron rainwater goods. Roughcast rendered walls, having smooth-rendered plinth course and quoins. Square-headed window openings with rendered and painted reveals and painted stone sills, having six-over-six pane timber sliding sash windows to front (east) elevation. Central square-headed door opening to east elevation, having smooth rendered door surround and replacement timber panelled door. Concrete path to replacement metal gate to east, flanked by square-plan piers and low plinth wall. Single-storey and two-storey farm buildings to west, having pitched corrugated-iron and pitched slate roofs, roughcast rendered and exposed coursed rubble limestone walls, and square-headed openings with some timber battened fittings, and with one segmental-headed door opening having brick voussoirs and no remaining fittings. Located west of Castleblayney to Newtownhamilton road south-west of Oram village.

This house largely retains its original late nineteenth-century and fabric. Its setting is further enhanced by the survival of mid-nineteenth-century farm buildings to the west. The retention of timber sash windows enhances the heritage value of the building. Local vernacular materials have been used in the construction of the buildings and boundary walls. The house and associated farm buildings, while not indicated on the 1835 Ordnance Survey map or Griffith Valuation map c.1858, appear on the 1908 OS map suggesting a late nineteenth century date. The symmetrical and attractive house is a picturesque addition to this country road from Castleblayney to Newtownhamilton and retains its architectural significance.

From the Buildings of Ireland (National Inventory of Architectural Heritage) record 41402009

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