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2 Rathfriland Road

Carcullion, Newry, Mourne and Down, Northern Ireland

Ordnance Survey six-inch map, 2nd edition (1888–1915) covering the location of 2 Rathfriland Road, Carcullion, Newry, Mourne and Down, with a pin at the register's coordinates
Ordnance Survey six-inch map, 2nd edition (1888–1915), covering this location. Courtesy of the National Library of Scotland. The pin is ours, placed from the register's coordinates.

The record

Designation
Record only (not listed)
Grade
Record Only
Type
House
Date of listing
22 September 1981
Date of delisting
28 June 2002
Date of construction
1880 - 1899
Address
2 Rathfriland Road, Hilltown, Newry, Co Down, BT34 5UR
Townland
Carcullion
Council
Newry, Mourne and Down
Country
Northern Ireland
Coordinates
54.19537, -6.14455
Date of survey
16 March 1999
HB reference
HB16/07/004 A

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David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries

4 historical maps cover this location, the earliest the 1866 map "Ireland." (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries).

Historical maps covering this location

  • 1866 · Ireland. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
  • 1869 · Ireland. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
  • 1881 · Ireland to Illustrate the Military Condition of the Country. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
  • 1891 · Ireland 16 (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)

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The Department's description

Exterior description and setting

Two storey/ three bay late 19th C house, with shop to right (HB16/04/004b), on W side of Rathfriland Road.

Pitched natural slate roof with chimney on each gable. Left one is pebble dashed and that to right is rendered and coped and has three octagonal Victorian pots (shared with adjoining shop). Semicircular metal gutters on slightly advanced eaves course.

Front elevation is E facing and is smooth rendered and painted. Left and right bays both have a two storey canted bay window with canted hipped natural slate roof with terracotta finial. Each cant has a 1/1 sliding sash window, all with horns and sharing common rendered cills. Central bay contains main entrance. Modern glazed timber door with matching sidelights and segmental headed plain fanlight. All are set within a segmental headed opening which is decorated with fluted stucco pilasters supporting a run moulded archivolt on which is a vermiculated keyblock flanked by scrolls. At first floor is a 1/1 sliding sash window with a run moulded stucco architrave and a vermiculated keyblock (as those to first floor of adjacent shop).

Left gable is pebble-dashed and has a modern fixed window with top-hung transom at first floor left (painted granite cill). Continuing to left is the right cheek of the rear return which has a modern window at ground floor and one at first floor.

Rear elevation is abutted completely by a lean-to two-storey return, the roof of which cat slides from the rear pitch of the main roof. The rear (yard) wall of return is blank. Its left cheek has a post-WWII door and a steel casement window leading into a small yard along rear of shop.

Right gable of house forms party wall with adjacent shop.

At front is a painted rendered dwarf wall supporting late c1900 wrought iron railings and enclosing small garden.

Historical information

First cited in valuation revision book entry of 1884. In common ownership with shop until c.1998.

Primary Sources:
1. Valuation revision map (PRONI: VAL 2D/3/16).
2. Valuation revision book (PRONI: VAL 12B/22/12B, p.61).
3. Information from owner (in 1999).

Criteria for listing: architectural interest

Not listed

Criteria for listing: historic interest

Not listed

Evaluation

This house forms a group with the adjoining shop (HB16/07/004B) and represents an example of a late 19th C urban domestic/ commercial property. Its entrance is particularly ornate. The modern interior and other alterations have compromised this house and it is not of special architectural or historic interest.

Nearby in the register

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

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