Historic Buildings Record · Northern Ireland
24 Carmeen Road
Carmeen, Newry, Mourne and Down, Northern Ireland
The record
- Designation
- Record only (not listed)
- Grade
- Record Only
- Type
- House
- Date of construction
- 1800 - 1819
- Address
- 24 Carmeen Road, Hilltown, Newry, Co Down, BT34 5TL
- Townland
- Carmeen
- Council
- Newry, Mourne and Down
- Country
- Northern Ireland
- Coordinates
- 54.18052, -6.19405
- Date of survey
- 02 August 1999
- HB reference
- HB16/09/032
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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
Single storey/ three bay direct entry vernacular house, accessed from lane on E side of Carmeen Road.
Pitched corrugated metal roof (formerly thatched) with rendered and coped chimney to each gable and one between left and centre bays. Rendered skews and raised eaves course. Walls are random rubble lime rendered and white washed. Principal elevation faces NW. Each bay has a single 2/2 (vertically divided) sliding sash window with horns and painted cill.
Centre bay has entrance porch set to right with window to its left. Porch has pitched corrugated metal roof with plain timber bargeboard. Walls as main façade and entrance door t+g sheeted. Left and right cheeks are blank.
Left gable is blank.
Right gable is abutted by a lower outbuilding with corrugated metal roof and walls as main façade (of no interest).
Rear elevation was not inspected.
Historical information
House with this footprint shown on 1834 OS 6” map; not valued (i.e. under £5). Valuation reduces from £1.5s.0d to 15s in 1884, and to 10s in 1890 (probably indicating a reduction in number of outbuildings). Evidence therefore suggests that the existing building is probably of early 19th C date. The owner in 1999 has lived here all her life (+80years) and recalls the house being thatched.
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/3/57C, p.30.
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
An attractive vernacular farmhouse retaining most of its features but not of special architectural or historic interest.
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