Former Thatched House, Duncrun Road, Lower Ballyleighery, Limavady, Co Londonderry is a listed building in the Causeway Coast and Glens local planning authority area, Northern Ireland.
Former Thatched House, Duncrun Road, Lower Ballyleighery, Limavady, Co Londonderry
- WRENN ID
- inner-thatch-sepia
- Grade
- Local Planning Authority
- Causeway Coast and Glens
- Constituency
- East Londonderry MP: Mr Gregory Campbell (DUP)
- Country
- Northern Ireland
- Irish grid reference
- C 695 323
- Coordinates
- 55.13385, -6.91083
- Source
- NI Environment Agency listing
Description
This was a large thatched cottage, likely built between 1780 and 1799. It stood on Duncrun Road, Lower Ballyleighery, near Limavady, County Londonderry. The cottage was a substantial three-bay direct entry dwelling, resembling a nearby property (HB02/09/046). It has since been demolished and replaced by a new two-storey house with a harled and whitewashed exterior. The replacement house features raised gables and a lean-to conservatory designed to mimic the appearance of the original thatched cottage, though the resemblance is incomplete. The original farmyard surrounding the cottage has been removed. A date stone inscribed “DB 1790” was found during demolition. Daniel Brewster, an ancestor of the Brewster family who live next door, lived in the area around 1790. While the Caldwell and Brewster families intermarried over time, local tradition associates "DB" with the adjacent cottage (HB02/09/046). The original cottage had fallen into ruin before its recent demolition. The building displayed vernacular architectural characteristics.
Local climate
Former Thatched House, Duncrun Road, Lower Ballyleighery, Limavady, Co Londonderry sits in one of the wettest parts of the UK, with an average of 1,270 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 94% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 92% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 4 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 98% of listed buildings. Of these, 3 follow at least 1 mm of rain in the preceding 48 hours. Average temperatures at this location have risen by 0.2°C per decade since 1991.
Averages for 1991–2020; temperature trend 1991–2025. Figures describe the wider area (a grid cell of roughly 10 km), not the individual site. Contains modified Copernicus Climate Change Service information 2026.
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- No sale records on file
- No related consent applications matched
- Detailed attributes — period, style, materials, features
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- Radon risk assessment
- Weather exposure and heating demand — rain and frost month by month and year by year, wind direction, solar and humidity
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