House

The Department's description

Exterior description and setting

Single storey / two bay labourer’s house set in the garden of no. 43 Greenan Road.

Hipped natural slate roof with tall cement rendered chimney to centre. Walls are rubble stone, painted and harled in places, with an advanced eaves course. Painted plastic rainwater goods to front only, none to rear.

Principal elevation faces W to garden. It has three openings. At right on right bay is a modern t+g sheeted door with cast iron lattice inset. To its left is a pair of cast iron framed lattice casements in a timber frame and at left (on left bay) is an identical single casement window.

The left and right gables are blank although the right formerly had a single paned casement, the lattice of which is now inset into the door.

Rear elevation is blank but previously had a window opening to each bay (reveals can be seen inside).

Setting
The road fronting boundary of the site is enclosed by the remains a high rubble stone wall which once enclosed the whole estate. To immediate right of house (as viewed from road) is an opening with t+g sheeted door and to its right is a second doorway. The first leads onto a small paved area beside the house which may have formed an enclosed yard.

Historical information

The current owners believes this building was a gardener’s cottage for the Greenwood Park Estate, and that there was a similar cottage further to the N on Greenan Road, recently demolished. A building is shown at this spot on the 1834 OS 6” map.

Primary Sources:
1. PRONI OS maps, 1st edition (1834), Co Down sheet 51.
2. Information from owner in 1999.

Criteria for listing: architectural interest

Not listed

Criteria for listing: historic interest

Not listed

Evaluation

This attractive small house has been sympathetically repaired and retains much of its original character and appearance. One of the few remaining fragments of the Greenwood Park Estate, it is of some architectural and historic interest.