109 Newry Street

The Department's description

Exterior description and setting

Two storey (+ attic)/ three bay late 19thC manse, set at end of terrace on N side of Newry Street.

Pitched natural slate roof to main block with canted natural slate roof over bay on left. Skylight on rear pitch. Rendered and corbelled chimney to each gable. Overhanging gables with plain bargeboards. Plain boxed eaves carry modern aluminium gutters with downpipe at left of façade. Walls are lined rendered cement on chamfered basecourse.

Front elevation is S facing and central bay is half the width of the other two. It contains the main entrance. Door is modern four panelled stained timber with glazed transom above. It is set within a decorative render architrave. On each side is a pilaster with recessed top and bottom panels and a raised moulded roundel between. These are crowned by paired fluted consoles with rectangular block over with incised medallion. On these rests a moulded cornice with an egg and dart course, scrolled pediment with quarter fans to either side. Directly above, at first floor, is a single 1/1 stained timber reproduction sash window.

The left bay is filled with a two storey canted bay, with a window on front and to each cheek (all as previous windows) with chamfered reveals. Between ground and first floor windows are moulded stucco panels with decorative relief. That to main face has sunflower medallion with spears and feathers. Those on left and right cheeks have foliated design.

Right bay has two windows on each floor (detailed as others) with panels between ground and first floor level (as front face of left bay).

Left gable has a single 1/1 sash window to ground and to first floor centre, and two small semicircular headed 1/1 windows in the attic (on either side of the chimneybreast).

Rear elevation is abutted by a modern single storey extension to extreme left and modern porch to centre both with flat roofs. Remaining wall is rendered. Between the extension and the porch is a 1/1 sash window with rendered cill. There is a modern casement window at ground floor right with concrete cill. At first floor left there is a single 1/1 window. To the right is smaller window between ground and first floor (bathroom). There is a 1/1 margin paned window to centre (stairwell) between ground and first floor.

Single storey return and porch are modern and have no features of interest.

Right gable is abutted by a slightly lower building. Exposed section of wall above is blank.

To street frontage is a rendered dwarf wall with decorative wrought iron railings (bracketed tops and spiked finials) and pedestrian gate hung between ornate cast-iron posts. Pair of similar gates at left lead into the rear yard.

Historical information

The valuation book entry of 1904 indicates that the present building is a replacement of an earlier building on this site. It was first occupied by Rev. Thomas Harrison.

Primary sources:
1. PRONI: VAL 12B/22/20F, p.219.

Criteria for listing: architectural interest

Not listed

Criteria for listing: historic interest

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Evaluation

Early 20thC manse of no special architectural or historic interest.