Historic Buildings Record · Northern Ireland
Well House, Dunnywater, Head Road, Annalong, Newry, Co Down
Mullartown, Newry, Mourne and Down, Northern Ireland
The record
- Designation
- Listed building, Grade B2
- Grade
- B2
- Type
- Water Works Structures
- Date of listing
- 11 April 2008
- Date of construction
- 1900 - 1919
- Address
- Well House, Dunnywater, Head Road, Annalong, Newry, Co Down
- Townland
- Mullartown
- Council
- Newry, Mourne and Down
- Country
- Northern Ireland
- Coordinates
- 54.13959, -5.93509
- Date of survey
- 07 June 1997
- HB reference
- HB16/01/051
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Shown on 5 historical map sheets, the earliest the 1888 "OS 1:10,560 County Series 1888-1913" (National Library of Scotland).
The Department's description
Exterior description and setting
A one-storey/ single-bay building aligned parallel with the road. The walls are of rock-faced granite blocks set in irregular courses over a projecting base which has a rusticated chamfer. The roof has natural slates over corbelled finely-dressed granite eaves; the gable copings, gable apex and knee stones are also of finely-dressed granite. The rainwater goods are of cast-iron. The building is entered through a wrought-iron double door on the north-west gable. Its jambs and segmental voussoired head are rusticated. Above the door, in the gable apex, is a louvred ventilation roundel; this is repeated on the other gable. Along both side walls are three 4-paned fixed timber windows which have rusticated jambs and lintels and splayed finely-dressed cills. Transparent plastic security panels have been inserted over the windows.
Historical information
Erected by the contractors Fisher and Le Fanu on behalf of the Belfast City & District Water Commissioners (BCDWC) as part of the Mourne Scheme to supply Belfast with water. Designed by the BCDWC Engineer, L.L. Macassey. It was not quite ready for the official opening of the Conduit in October 1901, but was completed shortly thereafter.
There are four identical well houses at Monenydorragh Upper More (HB16/01/061), Tullybranigan (HB18/13/071), Ballykine (HB18/06/013) and Creevytenant (HB18/01/028). Unlike these others, which controlled the flow of water into a siphon, the valve in this well house regulated the flow into the nearby Mixing Well (HB16/01/055).
Primary Sources:
1. DOE Westland House, Old Westland Rd, Belfast – drawings 3A7, 3A22, 3A23.
2. PRONI – Documents relating to progress WAT 1/3CG/3 (letter dated Dec 1900), WAT 1/3CG/7 (letter dated 1 July 1901).
Criteria for listing: architectural interest
C. Ornamentation
K. Group value
Criteria for listing: historic interest
V. Authorship
X. Local Interest
Y. Social, Cultural or Economic Importance
Evaluation
For such a utilitarian structure, this building has a surprising degree of embellished detailing. It also has group value in being functionally associated with the Annalong Weir (HB 16/01/052) and Mourne Scheme (Belfast water supply).
Nearby in the register
- Gauging WeirWater Works Structuresunder 1 mi
- Intercepting WeirWater Works Structuresunder 1 mi
- 272 Head Rd.Houseunder 1 mi
- 264 Head RdHouseunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.