Historic Buildings Record · Northern Ireland
Public Toilets
Ringmackilroy, Newry, Mourne and Down, Northern Ireland
The record
- Designation
- Record only (not listed)
- Grade
- Record Only
- Type
- Closet
- Date of construction
- 1920 - 1939
- Address
- Public Toilets, The Square, Warrenpoint, Newry, Co Down, BT34 3JT
- Townland
- Ringmackilroy
- Council
- Newry, Mourne and Down
- Country
- Northern Ireland
- Coordinates
- 54.10091, -6.25485
- Date of survey
- 11 October 1999
- HB reference
- HB16/11/040
Slide toward Today to fade the historical sheet and see the modern map underneath.
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Shown on 5 historical map sheets, the earliest the 1891 "Ireland 16" (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries).
The Department's description
Exterior description and setting
Square plan / single storey pavilion in centre of the Square.
Pyramidal pitched natural slate roof with metal vent finial and parapet gutter. Walls are painted lined render with chamfered basecourse, moulded frieze rail, plain advanced cornice and plain blocking course. All windows are semicircular timber framed, divided into three equal width panes by vertical glazing bars. Moulded render architrave, with keystone which meets the frieze rail. All doors are modern stained t+g sheeted with semicircular fanlights and architraves as windows.
SE and NW elevations are identical, each with two windows with plastic down pipes between them.
NE and SW elevations are also identical, each with two central windows and door at each end. The left door of the NE elevation has been infilled, only its keystone now remaining.
Historical information
The council spent £1,500 in 1928 constructing these toilets and another block in the Town Park (HB16/12/029).
Primary Sources:
1) L Bradley “Warrenpoint, Origins and Developments”, 1998, p109
Criteria for listing: architectural interest
Not listed
Criteria for listing: historic interest
Not listed
Evaluation
This small utilitarian building retains some character and occupies a prominent site within the Square.
Nearby in the register
- 1 The SquareBankunder 1 mi
- Former Harbour OfficeOfficeunder 1 mi
- Crown HotelDemolishedunder 1 mi
- 11 Church StreetShopunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.