Historic Buildings Record · Northern Ireland
2 Great George's Street
Ringmackilroy, Newry, Mourne and Down, Northern Ireland
The record
- Designation
- Record only (not listed)
- Grade
- Record Only
- Type
- House
- Date of construction
- 1900 - 1919
- Address
- 2 Great George's Street, Warrenpoint, Newry, Co Down, BT34 3NF
- Townland
- Ringmackilroy
- Council
- Newry, Mourne and Down
- Country
- Northern Ireland
- Coordinates
- 54.09864, -6.25325
- Date of survey
- 11 October 1999
- HB reference
- HB16/11/034 A
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Shown on 4 historical map sheets, the earliest the 1891 "Ireland 16" (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries).
The Department's description
Exterior description and setting
Two and half storey/ two bay house, being the left one of a pair of mirror-image houses at the SW end of a terrace on NW side of Great George’s Street.
Pitched artificial slate roof with a rebuilt rendered chimney set to left of centre on ridge (axis parallel to ridge). Advanced eaves course supports half-round plastic gutters. Front pitch has a canted dormer to left bay and a modern dormer to right bay (paired with adjoining house). Left dormer has canted artificial slate roof with central top-hung casement, fixed sidelights and artificial slated cheeks. Right dormer has a flat roof and modern top-hung casement window to front, artificially slated left cheek and dormer of adjoining house (HB16/11/034B) on right cheek.
Principal elevation faces SE to street. Walls are cement dashed and painted. Below eaves level, and shared with the adjoining house is a moulded stucco plaque reading “1908”.
Left bay has a two-storey canted bay with concealed flat roof with concrete coping. Each face on each floor contains a single modern top-hung casement window with painted concrete cill. A lean-to porch shared with adjoining house (HB16/11/034B) fills ground floor at right on bay. It has an artificial slate roof supported on small carved timber brackets at each end. Door is modern stained timber with six raised and fielded panels with a plain transom over. Over, to first floor, is a single window detailed as those to left.
Small front garden is enclosed by a painted and rendered dwarf wall.
Left gable is rendered, unpainted and blank.
Right gable is completely abutted by adjoining house.
Rear elevation not inspected.
Historical information
This building is first cited in the 1910 Valuation Revision book entry (and occupied from 1912).
Primary Sources:
1. Valuation Revision book (PRONI, VAL/12B/22/23B, p.145).
Criteria for listing: architectural interest
Not listed
Criteria for listing: historic interest
Not listed
Evaluation
One of a pair of mirror-image houses which has been much altered and retains no features of architectural interest.
Nearby in the register
- 4 Great George's StreetHouseunder 1 mi
- 6 Great George's StreetHouse - Terraceunder 1 mi
- 8 Great George's StreetHouse - Terraceunder 1 mi
- 10 Great George's StreetHouse - Terraceunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.