Historic Buildings Record · Northern Ireland
180/182 Lurgan Road
Ballymacmaine, Armagh City, Banbridge and Craigavon, Northern Ireland
The record
- Designation
- Record only (not listed)
- Grade
- Record Only
- Type
- Demolished
- Date of listing
- 14 August 1981
- Date of delisting
- 20 February 2014
- Date of construction
- 1900 - 1919
- Address
- 180/182 Lurgan Road, Magheralin, Moira, Co Down, BT67 0QS
- Townland
- Ballymacmaine
- Council
- Armagh City, Banbridge and Craigavon
- Country
- Northern Ireland
- Coordinates
- 54.46462, -6.26934
- Date of survey
- 19 October 2000
- HB reference
- HB14/07/021
Slide toward Today to fade the historical sheet and see the modern map underneath.
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Shown on 4 historical map sheets, the earliest the 1891 "Ireland 16" (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries).
The Department's description
Exterior description and setting
Description at 02/06/2006: Building Demolished
Description at 19/10/2000: A partially demolished single-storey, three-bay hearth-lobby dwelling aligned W-E parallel with Lurgan Road.
Its roof is now gone, but was formerly thatched and covered with corrugated-metal. It had at least two chimneys – one to left gable and one to party wall between left and centre bays.
Walls are pebble-dashed masonry (brick and rubble stone) over a smooth rendered and painted basecourse and narrow vertical bands to each end. Principal elevation faces N. It has a projecting windbreak porch set roughly to centre – left and right cheeks are blank. To its left is three window openings and to right are two window openings - that to extreme right-end has the remains of a 1/3 (horizontally divided) sash window (with horns) set within painted reveals and slightly advanced narrow cill. The left bay has a door opening
to the extreme left-end.
The left gable has a window opening to right and a door opening to left into former lean-to addition (now gone).
The rear wall has been completely demolished.
The right gable has a door opening set to right.
First Survey description, dated June 1979.
'Single storey. Tin roof (over thatch). Harled and lime washed. Small paned casement windows and two in the Gothick style'.
Historical information
This building has replaced an earlier building on this site shown on the 2nd edition OS map.
Building was demolished some time before June 2006.
Primary sources
1. PRONI OS/6/3/13/1 Down Sh 13
2. PRONI OS/6/3/13/2 Down Sh 13
3. PRONI OS6//3/13/3 Down Sh 13
4. VAL/2A/3/13 Down Sh 13
Criteria for listing: architectural interest
Not listed
Criteria for listing: historic interest
Not listed
Evaluation
Description at 02/06/2006: Building Demolished
Evaluation at 19/10/2000 A thatch under tin vernacular dwelling built c 1900 in an archaic style. Of interest mainly because because of its thatched roof construction.
Nearby in the register
- CHURCH OF THE HOLY UNDIVIDED TRINITYCHURCHunder 1 mi
- ST. PATRICK'S R C CHURCHCHURCHunder 1 mi
- CHURCH RUINSCHURCHunder 1 mi
- NEWFORGE HOUSE,HOUSEunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.