4 & 5 Caddells Lane

The Department's description

Exterior description and setting

Demolished (see Historical Information). Site remains vacant.

Historical information

Two houses exempt from valuation shown here on 1835 Valuation map (not on 1776 map). 1860 Valuation describes one of them as in use as a Newsroom and gives measurements as 7.5yds x 7yds x 1.75 storeys and 6yds x 7yds x 1.75 storeys.

Local resident Mr Fitzpatrick recalls that the these houses were demolished around 1979/80.

The HMBB survey card states “Mid 19thC two single storey houses with rendered walls, lined to simulate masonry. Roof is slated, projecting timber porches are flanked by casement windows, all but one with glazing bars. Channelled pilasters on porches rise to a frieze and cornice, with dentils in soffit. Pediments over are surmounted by finials, bargeboards and carved. Larger building appears on an OS map of 1833. Forty foot frontage.”

The first HMBB survey slide shows a pair of single storey urban vernacular houses on the S side of Caddells Lane. Both share a common pitched natural slate roof with overhanging eaves and scalloped barge board to W gable. There is a rendered and coped chimney on party wall between the two and another on the W gable.

Each has painted lined rendered walls to street with a chamfered base course and a central doorway. Doors are both set inside shallow applied timber porches with pitched timber board roofs, finely fretted wavy barge boards and stout timber finials, in the gable of each (over the door) is a dentilled cornice and each door is framed by a timber pilaster. Both doors have narrow transoms over (door details unknown). To left and right of each door are single window openings. Each contains a pair of side hung timber casements divided in 2x3 Georgian panes, with deep painted cills. The window to the right side of no.5 (the left house) has lost its glazing bars.

Right gable is blank

Left gable abuts the gable of the front outbuilding in the yards to the rear of 51 Downpatrick Street (HB 16/08/029B).

Rear elevation not seen in slide.

Primary sources:
1. Meade Estate: A Map of the Town of Rathfriland (1776) Now in Norfolk and Norwich Record Office.
2. PRONI 1834 Valuation town map (1:1760), VAL 1D/3/3.
3. PRONI 1835 First Valuation book, VAL 1B/ 358B, p.43.
4. OS 1:500 scale town map, Rathfriland (1860), (PRONI OS 8/24/1/4)
5. PRONI c.1862 Second Valuation book, VAL 2B/3/60B, p.32.
6. HMBB First Survey Card dated 20/01/1970.
7. HMBB First Survey Slide (undated).
8. Mr Fitzpatrick (local resident)

Criteria for listing: architectural interest

Not listed

Criteria for listing: historic interest

Not listed

Evaluation

Pair of single storey urban vernacular buildings with attractive timber porches. Demolished.