Historic Buildings Record · Northern Ireland
54 Greenan Road
Greenan, Newry, Mourne and Down, Northern Ireland
The record
- Designation
- Record only (not listed)
- Grade
- Record Only
- Type
- Demolished
- Date of construction
- 1800 - 1819
- Address
- 54 Greenan Road, Newry, Co Down, BT34 2PZ
- Townland
- Greenan
- Council
- Newry, Mourne and Down
- Country
- Northern Ireland
- Coordinates
- 54.13834, -6.29642
- Date of survey
- 16 August 1999
- HB reference
- HB16/10/004
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Shown on 5 historical map sheets, the earliest the 1636 "Vltoniae Orientalis Pars" (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries).
The Department's description
Exterior description and setting
Original house has been demolished and replaced by a modern bungalow.
Historical information
Shown on 1834 OS 6” map and cited in the c.1835 Valuation book as belonging to George Denver and measuring 63ft x 17ft x 6ft. It was obviously raised at a later date as the first HMBB survey card states: “Pre 1834. A two storey house with harled, colour washed walls and slated roof. Windows are d/h (double hung), some with full g/b (glazing bars) and some with panes divided in two by single vertical g/b. There are gabled porches at front and rear.”
The first HMBB survey slide shows the rear elevation (to field) which may have been a garden at some time. The building is three bays wide and two storeys high. It has a cement rendered chimney to each end gable and on either side of the central bay. Its walls are ochre coloured wash. Each bay is quite wide and contains a 6/3 sliding sash window to ground floor and a similar smaller one to first floor (although that to left bay is a 2/2 sash). The right bay is abutted to right side by a single storey gabled porch. It has a pitched natural slate roof, with ridge at eaves level of main roof, and walls as the main block. Its gable has a plain bargeboard with turned timber finial and a 6/3 sliding sash window. Its right cheek has a small 4/4 sash window and its left cheek contains a door with glazed top panels.
An aerial photograph in possession of the current owner shows the front elevation to have a gabled windbreak porch to left side of middle bay, to the right of which is a window to G/F, and the F/F of which is blank. Left and right bays have a window to each floor; those to F/F are diminished in height with heads at eaves level. The right gable has two small windows at F/F level. Miscellaneous outbuildings in yard.
Primary Sources:
1. PRONI OS map 1st edition (1834), CO Down sheet 51.
2. PRONI 1st Valuation book (c.1835), VAL 1B/389, p. 269.
3. HMBB first survey card dated 26/01/1970.
4. HMBB first survey slide dated 26/01/1970.
5. Aerial photograph in possession of the current owner (1999).
Criteria for listing: architectural interest
Not listed
Criteria for listing: historic interest
Not listed
Evaluation
Original building demolished.
Nearby in the register
- Clonlea GraveyardGraveyardunder 1 mi
- 32 Greenan Lough RoadHouseunder 1 mi
- 17 Greenanlough RoadHouseunder 1 mi
- Houseunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.