Historic Buildings Record · Northern Ireland
Lodge to Rosetta
Moygannon, Newry, Mourne and Down, Northern Ireland
The record
- Designation
- Record only (not listed)
- Grade
- Record Only
- Type
- Gates/ Screens/ Lodges
- Date of listing
- 12 January 1982
- Date of delisting
- 1 August 1986
- Date of construction
- 1840 - 1859
- Address
- Lodge to Rosetta, 49 Rostrevor Road, Warrenpoint, Newry, Co Down, BT34 3RT
- Townland
- Moygannon
- Council
- Newry, Mourne and Down
- Country
- Northern Ireland
- Coordinates
- 54.10110, -6.22445
- Date of survey
- 01 November 1999
- HB reference
- HB16/12/013 B
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Shown on 5 historical map sheets, the earliest the 1830 "V.3:11-15:XV. Britisches Reich. C. Kon: Ireland. b. Prov: Ulster. Counties: 13-21" (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries).
The Department's description
Exterior description and setting
Small single storey/ two bay lodge on seaward side of Rostrevor Road at entrance to Rosetta (HB16/12/013A).
Pyramidal natural slate roof with modern boxed timber eaves and half-round metal gutters. Modern cement rendered chimney on the seaward (S) pitch. Walls are dry dashed.
The E face contains a small gabled windbreak porch (shares eaves with main roof) and has a modern glazed timber door to front and 1/1 sash window to each cheek. To its left and right are single reproduction 1/1 sash windows. The S elevation has a pair of modern single-paned French windows to left and a single sash window to right (one to left bay, and two to right). W elevation has three 1/1 sash windows. N elevation is recessed under the roof at right and has a single 1/1 sash window to left.
No garden. This small house sits close to the sea wall on an exposed site and at the gates to Rosetta House.
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Historical information
First appears on the 1859 OS 6” map, indicating a mid-19th C construction date. Probably erected at the same time as the house was being extended in the 1850s.
Primary sources
1. OS 6” map, 1859, Co Down sheet 54 (PRONI: OS 6/3/54/2).
Criteria for listing: architectural interest
Not listed
Criteria for listing: historic interest
Not listed
Evaluation
A much refurbished lodge retaining no original fabric.
Nearby in the register
- Moygannon Gate LodgeGates/ Screens/ Lodgesunder 1 mi
- DrumboeHouseunder 1 mi
- RosettaHouseunder 1 mi
- ClermontHouseunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.