7 Newry Street

The Department's description

Exterior description and setting

Two storey (+ attic) / three bay Georgian townhouse, for some time a shop with living accommodation over; situated on south side of Newry Street. Left bay is narrow, central bay is three times its width and right bay is occupied by a coachway to rear, and seems to be a later addition.

Pitched concrete pantiled roof, two cement rendered chimneys, on each party wall of central bay. Right gable is raised and coped. Raised render corbelled eaves support half-round cast iron rainwater goods. Front elevation is lined rendered, with V channelled render quoins to left side and on party wall between central and right bay.

Ground floor left bay has a six panelled painted timber (reproduction) door with rectangular transom over, this serves stairwell to upper floor. Shop front (early 20th century) abuts entire ground floor of central bay. It has a central pair of three panelled, flush moulded doors with transom over. Transom is inset with a neon panel. To left and right are pairs of applied timber pilasters with chamfered plinths, applied mouldings and decorative corbels. To left and right beyond these are large shop windows, which are permanently shuttered with large timber doors held in place by horizontal bars. These are decorated by applied timber lightning bolts. To either end single pilasters (as others) terminate the shop front. Over is a canted fascia, which is held in place by the corbels of the end pilasters. It has a leaded roof and is painted ‘AMUSEMENTS’. The coachway to ground floor right has a segmental head and has a large metal and mesh gate.

At first floor, over left and central bays are four equally spaced 6/6 sliding sashes with no horns. Each has a painted granite cill, that to left is over door at ground floor left and others are over shop. Over coachway at first floor right is a similar window, but its cill is timber and higher to accommodate the coachway below. Coachway has dressed granite wheel tracks and its walls are snecked granite rubble painted

Left and right gables form party walls with adjacent properties.

Rear elevation is abutted to right by a two-storey return and to centre by a single storey extension. Remaining walls are smooth unpainted cement render with corbelled eaves. Coachway has a metal lintel, and over is a single (boarded up) sash window. There are and two 6/6 sash windows to first floor centre (with lower cills than that to left). Return has a pitched corrugated iron roof. It is abutted to right and rear by adjacent carriage house and to ground floor left by the single storey extension. Its first floor left cheek has two 1/1 sash windows.

Extension has a modern shallow corrugated metal pitched roof and cement rendered walls. Its right cheek abuts the main return. An outhouse abuts its gable and its left cheek has a modern escape door with a window to right.

Carriage house to rear is two storey with a pitched corrugated tin roof, plastic rainwater goods and white washed rubble stone walls.

Historical information

It appears to have become a public house in 1888.

Primary Sources:
1. PRONI - VAL 1D/3/11.
2. PRONI - OS 8/15/1/3.
3. PRONI - VAL 12B/19/14A, p.115
4. PRONI - VAL 12B/19/14C, p.163.

Criteria for listing: architectural interest

A. Style
B. Proportion
C. Ornamentation
H-. Alterations detracting from building
I. Quality and survival of Interior

Criteria for listing: historic interest

X. Local Interest

Evaluation

The internal detailing of this property suggests that it is very early 19th century in origin. The internal treatments are to a high specification and worthy of protection.