White House

Moneydorragh Beg, Newry, Mourne and Down, Northern Ireland

The record

Designation: Record only (not listed)
Grade: Record Only
Type: House
Date of construction: 1940 - 1959
Address: White House, 21 Stewarts Rd, Annalong, Newry, Co Down, BT34 4UE
Townland: Moneydorragh Beg
Council: Newry, Mourne and Down
Country: Northern Ireland
Coordinates: 54.10168, -5.92639
Date of survey: 18 July 1997
HB reference: HB16/02/048

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Shown on 2 historical map sheets, the earliest the 1922 "Ireland - northern section." (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries).

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The Department's description

Exterior description and setting

Single storey house raised on stilts, with gabled concrete tiled roof, facing south west.

South west elevation has off centre projecting porch (segmental head) with door recessed (also segmental head). Circular windows on either side of door with green painted ‘zigzag’ cement surround (with blue and white dots and segmental cills). Right gable has single casement window to left and projecting circular chimney to right tapering to single chimney pot with projecting blue and white details.
Left gable blank.

Rear elevation has lean to extension on left side with three windows (one circular) to right gable and door to rear.

Garden contains a pair of large decorative kangaroos. Walling and gates decorated as the house.

Historical information

Believed to have been built in the 1950s or ‘60s.

Criteria for listing: architectural interest

Not listed

Criteria for listing: historic interest

Not listed

Evaluation

An original and eccentric treatment in a ‘South American ethnic style’

Nearby in the register

Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.

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