29 Kilkeel Rd

The Department's description

Exterior description and setting

A two storey / two bay vernacular farmhouse down a lane on the south side of Kilkeel Road.

Pitched natural slate roof with rendered and coped chimney (each with two decorative pots) to each gable. Semicircular metal rainwater goods with downpipe at right on facade. Walls are smooth painted lined render over (granite?) rubble stone.

Front elevation faces north. Main entrance is set in a shallow gabled porch which abuts left side of right bay. It has a pitched natural slate roof with dentilled decorative bargeboards and a timber finial. Its walls are as house and its cheeks are blank. Its front wall has a four-panelled painted timber door with boarded up transom light over. Its panels are raised and fielded with decorative stop end chamfers and beading. It has a cast iron doorknocker. Chamfered rendered keystone to wall over. Hooks for a half door are attached to the left jamb.

To right of porch is a 2/2 (horizontally divided) sliding sash window with horns, exposed boxes and granite cill. The left bay has a similar window. There are three more to first floor - two in line with those to G/F and the third to left of porch.

Left gable is abutted by single storey / single bay outhouse. The exposed section of wall is blank and smooth rendered.

The outbuilding has a pitched natural slate roof with plastic rainwater goods. Its walls are unevenly rendered and whitewashed. Door to right of centre is t+g sheeted and painted. Its left gable is blank. Its rear wall has a boarded over doorway set left of centre.

Rear elevation of house is smooth rendered. There is no door, and its windows are the mirror image of those on facade with the exception of a small window without a cill, to centre between ground and first floor.

Setting
Gates to road are flat iron with rams horns and dog bars to bottom half. They are hung on a pair of modern rendered gateposts with pyramidal caps. Yard to front has a single storey outbuilding which is detailed as the outbuilding abutting house and aligned N-S. A lane runs to right of house leading to garden and rear fields. Garden to rear has raised beds and is enclosed by rubble walling and mature trees.

Historical information

A building is shown on this site on the 1834 OS 6” map and subsequent editions. Not cited in First Valuation of c.1838 as rated at less than £5. Valued at £1.5s.0d in c.1861 Valuation. Valuation increases to £3 in 1901, suggesting a complete rebuild or substantial enlargement to its present form.

Primary sources:
1. OS 6” map, 1834, Co Down sheet 48.
2. First Valuation, c.1838 (PRONI VAL 1B/354).
3. OS 6” map, 1859, Co Down sheet 48.
4. Second Valuation, c.1861 (PRONI VAL 2B/3/49A, p.77).
5. Valuation revision, 1901 (PRONI VAL 12B/22/6C, p.34).

Criteria for listing: architectural interest

Not listed

Criteria for listing: historic interest

Not listed

Evaluation

A two-storey vernacular house which retains most original features and illustrates the evolution of the traditional single storey vernacular house.