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Heritage at Risk In Northern Ireland |
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County Tyrone - Laurel View Villa, 4 Main Street, Donaghmore
"In order to halt the decay of this listed building, an urgent scheme of holding repairs needs to be implemented immediately. If the present owner is unable to carry this out, the Society [Ulster Architectural Heritage Society] would wish to see that the building is offered for sale or lease, in order that its future be assured."
This was written some eight years ago when this former Brewer's House first appeared as a building at risk. Since that time no attempt has been made to secure the building or to make it wind and watertight to slow the spiral of decline.
© courtesy of the UAHS
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Described in the first survey record of listed buildings as being a two-storey dwelling on the main street, with a projecting porch flanked by single-storey canted bays, always having simple Georgian detail throughout. It remains an extremely important building for the town of Donaghmore, given its close connection to the now demolished brewery, as well as its highly prominent position at the entrance to the town. It has recently been sold.
County Fermanagh - Armagh Manor Court House, 176 Ballagh Road, Ballagh 178, 180, 182 Ballagh Road, Ballagh
"Below Armagh Manor, at number 178, 180 and 182 Ballagh Road, stand three highly picturesque gabled and mullioned buildings. Further up the hill is the Court House, built in 1853, with a slender square tower and a lavish supply of bargeboards. Its E end is a two-storey cottage. Next is a twin two-storeyed cottage with four gables facing the road, and, at the bottom, the most elaborate of all, a cottage orné of 1857, worthy of Nash, with grouped high chimneys, winking oriel windows, and a timber veranda at the front"
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That was a description of the Manor Court House and cottages, in 1979, in the time before they became buildings at risk.
Now, much of the detail that once imbued these cottages with such charm has been lost. Their condition has deteriorated and the veranda to the bottom cottage has disappeared altogether. Only the Manor Court House is in any way sufficiently boarded up to prevent entry from vandals but the weather is taking its toll.
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