Historic Buildings Record · Northern Ireland
9 Cullion Road
Cullion, Newry, Mourne and Down, Northern Ireland
The record
- Designation
- Record only (not listed)
- Grade
- Record Only
- Type
- House
- Date of construction
- 1800 - 1819
- Address
- 9 Cullion Road, Rathfriland, Newry, Co Down, BT34 5BA
- Townland
- Cullion
- Council
- Newry, Mourne and Down
- Country
- Northern Ireland
- Coordinates
- 54.21787, -6.23443
- Date of survey
- 06 July 1999
- HB reference
- HB16/09/020
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Shown on 4 historical map sheets, the earliest the 1790 "Composite: Ireland." (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries).
The Department's description
Exterior description and setting
One and a half storey/ two bay vernacular house with two storey outbuilding, up lane on W side of Cullion Road. Left gable of house faces onto Cullion Road.
Pitched natural slate roof with a concrete coped brick and chimney to each gable. Small metal skylight to centre of front pitch. Advanced brick eaves course, no rain water goods. Rubble stone walls are rendered and painted.
Front elevation faces NW. At centre, at left end of right bay is projecting porch with pitched natural slate roof and cement rendered brick walls. Its left and right cheeks are blank and door to front is gone. Each bay has a single 2/2 sliding sash window (vertically divided) with horns and granite cill.
Left gable has two small 2/2 sliding sash windows at upper floor.
Rear elevation has a single window to each bay. That to left bay is a modern casement window. That to right is a 2/2 sliding sash.
Right gable is abutted by a lower outbuilding with pitched natural slate roof (brick chimney to right gable) and walls of rubble stone with brick eaves; no rainwater goods. Its front wall is flush with that of house and has a t+g sheeted door to left and a metal casement to right. Its rear wall is also flush with that of house
To front of house is a yard, enclosed to W by a two storey outbuilding. It has a pitched natural slate roof, and rubble stone walls brought to courses. Its yard-facing elevation has two t+g sheeted doors and small ventilation openings. At first floor are two small t+g shuttered openings. Its left gable has a t+g sheeted loading door to loft. Rear elevation and right gables are blank.
Historical information
House with this footprint shown on 1834 OS 6” map; not valued (i.e. under £5). Valued at £1.5s.0d in c.1862 valuation. Increases to £2 in 1885, suggesting additions (probably outbuildings). No change in valuation thereafter. Occupied until the late 1970s.
Primary sources:
1. OS 6" map, 1st edition (1834) Co Down sheet 47 (PRONI OS 6/3/47/1)
2. PRONI Second valuation c.1862, VAL 2B/3/60A, p.68.
3. PRONI Valuation revision books, 1866-1930, VAL 12B/22/5.
Criteria for listing: architectural interest
Not listed
Criteria for listing: historic interest
Not listed
Evaluation
A typical small vernacular farmhouse but without any special features.
Nearby in the register
- 29 Ballykeel RoadHouseunder 1 mi
- 27 Ballykeel RoadHouseunder 1 mi
- Cullion BridgeBridgeunder 1 mi
- 21 Ballykeel RoadHouseunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.