3 Caddells Lane

The Department's description

Exterior description and setting

Three-storey / three bay 19thC building set between similar buildings on S side of Caddells Lane.

Pitched artificial slate roof with chimneys on each end of ridge. Both are rendered with moulded coping and three pots. Half-round plastic rainwater goods with down pipe to right.

Front elevation is N facing and symmetrical. Walls are lined rendered and painted on a moulded base course. Main entrance is in a semi-elliptical opening on central bay. Door consists of a modern six panelled stained timber door over which is a semi-elliptical peacock glazed fanlight. Two painted granite Doric ¾ attached columns supporting moulded granite entablature. On wall right of entrance door is a bell pull. Projecting “Restaurant” sign above and to right of door above first floor string course. Left and right bays each have a 1/1 top-hung uPVC window with vermiculated keyblock over.

Upper floors both have three windows; all are modern 1/1 uPVC casements with mock glazing bars and top opening . All have vermiculated keyblocks and painted cills and are in line with ground floor openings. Those to second floor are diminished in height.

Left and right gables are party walls with adjacent properties. Exposed section to left gable is blank.

Rear elevation is much altered. It is abutted to left by a large three-storey return and to right by a single storey return. Exposed section of main block has a modern 3/6 top-hung window to first floor and to second floor.

Return seems original but has been much altered in the recent past. It has a hipped tiled roof and walls and windows as main block.

Historical information

Present owner has been resident for a decade and believes that the house was built as a fishing lodge for a Mr Edward Kendle. Also claims that it was occupied by Major General Caddell, Governor-general of Ireland, prior to 1690. It is known that John Hawkins granted a tenement and 20 acres of land to Edward Caddell in 1677. “Caddell, Edward, attorney and seneschal” is listed in the 1820 directory but it is uncertain whether he was resident here. However, Caddell’s Lane did not exist on 1776 map, but appeared on 1833 OS map.

This building is shown, complete with its return, on the 1834 large-scale Valuation map. It is described in the 1835 Valuation book as 39ft 6in x 27ft x 27ft, with a 41ft x 21ft x 26ft return. It is described as a private house occupied by Captain Thomas Scott and was valued at £28 (including the adjoining building to E). The 1860 town map shows it as a hotel. The c.1862 Valuation notes the occupant as Robert Magill and its measurements as 38ft x 27ft x 3 storeys. Comparison with the earlier statistics shows it not to have changed externally, and it is likely to have remained the case up to the present.

HMMB archive slide (1970) of this building shows timber sliding sash windows with horns to the façade; 1/1 to ground floor, 6/6 to first floor and 6/3 to second floor. Known as the Old George Restaurant and Lounge Bar.

Primary sources:
1. Meade Estate: A Map of the Town of Rathfriland (1776) Now in Norfolk and Norwich Record Office.
2. OS 6" map, 1st edition (1833) Co Down sheet 41 (PRONI OS 6/3/41/1)
3. PRONI 1834 Valuation map (1:1760), VAL 1D/3/3.
4. PRONI First Valuation book (1835), VAL 1B/ 385A, p.125 and /385B, p.43.
5. OS 1:500 scale town map, Rathfriland (1860), (PRONI OS 8/24/1/4)
6. PRONI Second Valuation book (c.1862), VAL 2B/3/60B, p.31.
7. Photograph of door case in Architectural Archive at EHS 5-33 Hill Street Belfast.
8. HMMB first survey slide (1970) showing whole of block.
9. Owner in 1999

Secondary Sources
1. P.J. Rankin “Hilltown and Rathfriland List” Belfast 1978-9

Criteria for listing: architectural interest

Not listed

Criteria for listing: historic interest

Not listed

Evaluation

This symmetrical early 19thC building has an attractive Doric door case. Although it retains a great deal of original fabric including stairs, shutters and delicate plasterwork, the modern windows are inappropriate, its rear elevation has been altered and the pub interior has compromised on of the principal rooms. It is not of special architectural or historic interest.