Historic Buildings Record · Northern Ireland
6 Redbridge Road
Kiltarriff, Armagh City, Banbridge and Craigavon, Northern Ireland
The record
- Designation
- Record only (not listed)
- Grade
- Record Only
- Type
- House
- Date of construction
- 1820 - 1839
- Address
- 6 Redbridge Road, Rathfriland, Newry, Co Down, BT43 5AH
- Townland
- Kiltarriff
- Council
- Armagh City, Banbridge and Craigavon
- Country
- Northern Ireland
- Coordinates
- 54.23731, -6.17507
- Date of survey
- 10 June 1999
- HB reference
- HB16/08/051
Slide toward Today to fade the historical sheet and see the modern map underneath.
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Shown on 4 historical map sheets, the earliest the 1811 "Ireland." (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries).
The Department's description
Exterior description and setting
Two-storey/ three bay vernacular house with its right gable to Redbridge Road. Main façade faces E.
Pitched modern corrugated metal roof with rendered brick skews and rendered and coped chimney to each gable. Half round gutters (metal to front, plastic to rear). Walls are lime rendered over rubble stone and has advanced eaves. Central bay of front elevation is narrower than the other two. It contains the front door, which is a sheeted door with fixed rectangular transom. To left and right bays at ground floor are 2/2 (vertically divided) exposed box sliding sash windows (with horns) and painted granite cills. There are similar windows to each bay at first floor. All openings to this façade have smooth rendered architraves.
The left (S) gable is abutted by a single storey outbuilding and gable over is blank. Building has a pitched natural slate roof and walls as main block with sheeted half door to front wall. Its gable has an attic vent and its rear wall is blank.
Rear wall (W) of the main block is abutted to right of centre by a lean-to return. Remaining wall is lime rendered with a tall exposed box-sliding sash to centre between ground and first floors (boarded up).
Rear return has a mono pitched natural slate roof and walls as main block. It has a boarded up window on its left cheek, with similar window on right end of its front wall, and a sheeted timber door (three steps up) on its right cheek.
The right (N) gable of the main block is blank.
Small coursed rubble stone outbuilding in yard to S.
Historical information
A building is shown here on the 1834 map, but as the valuation map is missing it is impossible to determine (from its measurements) whether this is the same as the existing structure. There is no change in its £5 valuation from the early 1860s onwards. This, plus the fact that it is rated so highly, suggests that it had taken its present form by the mid 19thC.
Primary Sources:
1. OS 6" map, 1st edition (1834) Co Down sheet 41 (PRONI OS 6/3/41/1)
2. PRONI 1860 Valuation map, VAL 2A/3/41D.
3. PRONI c.1862 Second Valuation book, VAL 2B/3/59C, p.16.
Criteria for listing: architectural interest
Not listed
Criteria for listing: historic interest
Not listed
Evaluation
This vernacular house retains much of its original character and fabric but its modern corrugated metal roof compromises its appearance.
Nearby in the register
- 2nd Presbyterian ChurchChurchunder 1 mi
- Former Presbyterian School HouseHallunder 1 mi
- St Mary's RC ChurchChurchunder 1 mi
- 109 Newry StreetRectories/ Manses etcunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.