worker's house

Former pair of semi-detached three-bay single-storey worker's houses with attic storey, built c.1880, having porch to front (south-east) elevation, and recent extension and sun-room to rear. Pitched replacement slate roof, catslide over entrance, with red brick chimneystack, and having roof-lights to rear, replacement rainwater goods, and with timber bargeboards to gable end. Coursed squared limestone walls, having red brick block-and-start quoins, stone plinth course with red brick band and chamfered dressed stone coping, red brick bands at sill level and above windows. Gauged-brick square-headed window openings, having red brick keystones and surrounds, painted chamfered dressed stone sills, and cast-iron lozenge glazing bars. Similar treatment to doorway in porch, with replacement door, and stone step. Lancet window opening to porch, having chamfered dressed stone sill, red brick surround, and plain glazing. Part of group of four. Houses possibly designed by Henderson and Murray, as they exhibit many similarities to gate lodge within the demesne.

This modest house was formerly two workers' houses. It is enlivened and articulated by red brick detailing and cast-iron lozenge windows, which add artistic and architectural interest. This pair was part of a group of four built by the Annaghmakerig estate. They have social significance, having provided accommodation for workers on the estate from the latter decades of the nineteenth century, and may have been designed by Henderson and Murray, as they exhibit many similarities to a gate lodge nearby that was designed by them.