Historic Buildings Record · Northern Ireland
West Estate Workers’ House
Ballyrogan or Mourne Park, Newry, Mourne and Down, Northern Ireland
The record
- Designation
- Listed building, Grade B2
- Grade
- B2
- Type
- House
- Date of listing
- 22 July 2003
- Date of construction
- 1820 - 1839
- Address
- West Estate Workers’ House, Mourne Park Demesne, Newry Road, Kilkeel, Newry, Co Down, BT34
- Townland
- Ballyrogan or Mourne Park
- Council
- Newry, Mourne and Down
- Country
- Northern Ireland
- Coordinates
- 54.07774, -6.04568
- Date of survey
- 14 October 1998
- HB reference
- HB16/05/060 A
Slide toward Today to fade the historical sheet and see the modern map underneath.
David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford LibrariesDavid Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford LibrariesDavid Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford LibrariesDavid Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford LibrariesDavid Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries
Shown on 5 historical map sheets, the earliest the 1636 "Vltoniae Orientalis Pars" (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries).
The Department's description
Exterior description and setting
Left-hand house of a pair of picturesque symmetrical one-and-a-half storey/ two-bay estate houses set to north of a large walled garden (HB16/05/068) within Mourne Park demesne.
Gabled natural slate roof with plain projecting bargeboards and eaves. A coped brick chimney on the party wall serves both properties and there is also a chimney to each gable. Half round cast iron and plastic rainwater goods. Walls are squared and coursed granite rubble brought to courses and openings are dressed in brick. All windows have finely dressed granite cills.
Main façade faces south west. Main entrance door at ground floor left. Door is sheeted and painted. It is sheltered by a slated gabled hood supported on timber brackets. To its left is a six paned casement window and to its right is a 6/6 sliding sash window with horns. Directly above the latter is a smaller 6/6 sliding sash window in a dormer rising from eaves. Façade of right-hand house is the mirror image.
Left gable is blank and abutted by a single storey lean-to with a lean-to natural slate roof and random rubble granite walls. Its west-facing wall has a small window, now infilled. Both its cheeks are blank.
At rear ground floor, a large 6/6 sliding sash window at right and a sheeted back door at left. To left of door is a small six-pane casement window. To first floor right, above the ground floor window, is 6/6 sash window in a dormer rising from eaves.
At front is an original cobbled path with a dressed granite edging. Immediately opposite is the large walled garden.
Historical information
Houses shown on 1834 OS 6” map.
Sources:
1. PRONI – OS 6/3/55/1 (1834 OS map) (Down sheet 55).
Criteria for listing: architectural interest
A. Style
B. Proportion
C. Ornamentation
D. Plan Form
I. Quality and survival of Interior
J. Setting
K. Group value
Criteria for listing: historic interest
X. Local Interest
Evaluation
An attractive and largely original pair of early 19th century workers' houses, an integral part of the demesne.
Nearby in the register
- East Estate Workers’ HouseHouseunder 1 mi
- Walled gardenWalled Garden Structureunder 1 mi
- The GrangeRecreational Clubunder 1 mi
- Farm YardsFarm Buildingsunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.