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A small number are also included on the Departments Sites and Monuments Record as features of archaeological or Industrial Heritage interest.

Advice and further InformationĪ good detailed ‘home owners handbook’ which explains the history of these buildings and provides guidance on their sensitive alteration to accommodate modern needs was published by the Mourne Heritage Trust in 2004.īecause of their significance, the department holds records of many of these buildings and many are protected as listed buildings. Examples of vernacular heritage can also be found in settlements. While commonly identified as rural dwellings, vernacular building examples also include mill buildings, schools, churches, halls, farmsteads, outbuildings, and other associated structures.

Such vernacular buildings will have been typical, i.e, of a common type in any given locality and will lack individualistic and ‘educated’ design features that characterised international fashions in formal architecture during the same period.” “Rural vernacular or traditional architecture is the construction of small plain buildings in the countryside (particularly before 1925) where the dominant influence in siting materials, form and design is the local ‘folk tradition’. The Department carried out a statistical survey of these buildings in 1998 and as part of this agreed the following definition of ‘rural’ vernacular buildings with stakeholders: Rural vernacular buildings are also important for their contribution to the local landscape character of a place and its local distinctiveness, through their layout, appearance, and influence on the evolution of the surrounding landscape. Earlier structures are very rare even as archaeological remains The majority of surviving examples in Northern Ireland, date from the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries, although older examples are also known. Many will have evolved from small buildings, typically extending in line with the original building or with raised walls to create upper levels. Most are small, simple, single or two storey structures, constructed without formal design, using local materials. They provide a tangible link to our past and our historical interaction with the land and its materials, demonstrating a record of traditional construction techniques and craft skills. They are important because they provide information about our ancestors and their local traditions, skills, customs and ‘way of life’.