Historic Buildings Record · Northern Ireland
8 Great George's Street
Ringmackilroy, Newry, Mourne and Down, Northern Ireland
The record
- Designation
- Record only (not listed)
- Grade
- Record Only
- Type
- House - Terrace
- Date of construction
- 1840 - 1859
- Address
- 8 Great George's Street, Warrenpoint, Newry, Co Down, BT34 3NF
- Townland
- Ringmackilroy
- Council
- Newry, Mourne and Down
- Country
- Northern Ireland
- Coordinates
- 54.09875, -6.25303
- Date of survey
- 11 October 1999
- HB reference
- HB16/11/034 D
Slide toward Today to fade the historical sheet and see the modern map underneath.
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Shown on 4 historical map sheets, the earliest the 1838 "Ireland, north sheet." (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries).
The Department's description
Exterior description and setting
Two and a half storey/ two bay house, set fourth from left in a terrace on NW side of Great George’s Street. Left bay has a two and a half storey canted bay window and the right bay has a wall-head dormer.
Pitched natural slate roof with advanced eaves course supporting half round plastic gutters. Red brick corbelled chimney and narrow concrete skew to left party wall with adjoining house (HB16/11/034C). Canted bay has a slate roof with terracotta ridges. Right bay dormer has a pitched roof with plain timber bargeboard.
Principal elevation faces SE to street. Walls are rendered and painted with a chamfered base course and moulded string courses to ground and first floors rising over the segmental headed openings.
Entrance is at ground floor right. Door is a modern stained timber four panelled (raised and fielded) with plain transom over. At first floor, over the door, is a segmental headed window with stop-end chamfered arris. It contains a modern uPVC top-hung casement window with painted cill. All other windows are identical. Ground floor and first floor of left bay each have a pair of windows to their front and a single window to each cheek. The top floor openings are as those below but with flat heads and diminished in height.
Small front area has a low dwarf wall.
Left gable is completely abutted by adjoining building (HB16/11/034C).
Rear elevation was not inspected.
Right gable is completely abutted by adjoining building (HB16/11/034E).
Historical information
Not on the 1834 town map. Shown on the 1861 map and described in the 1863 Valuation Book as measuring 7.25yds x 8.75yds x 2 2/3 storeys high, with a 1.5 storey return. Undoubtedly the same building as that standing today.
Primary Sources:
1. OS town map, 1861 (PRONI, OS/8/27/1/7).
2. Second Valuation book, 1863 (PRONI, VAL/2B/3/65B, p.56).
Criteria for listing: architectural interest
Not listed
Criteria for listing: historic interest
Not listed
Evaluation
This building has been altered and retains no features on architectural or historical interest.
Nearby in the register
- 6 Great George's StreetHouse - Terraceunder 1 mi
- 10 Great George's StreetHouse - Terraceunder 1 mi
- 4 Great George's StreetHouseunder 1 mi
- 12 St Peter StreetHouseunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.