14 Seaview

Ringmackilroy, Newry, Mourne and Down, Northern Ireland

The record

Designation: Record only (not listed)
Grade: Record Only
Type: House - Terrace
Date of listing: 12 January 1982
Date of delisting: 14 January 1998
Date of construction: 1880 - 1899
Address: 14 Seaview, Warrenpoint, Newry, Co Down, BT34 3NJ
Townland: Ringmackilroy
Council: Newry, Mourne and Down
Country: Northern Ireland
Coordinates: 54.09935, -6.24790
Date of survey: 01 November 1999
HB reference: HB16/12/017 B

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Exterior description and setting

Second house from left end of a terrace of six similar three storey/ two bay late 19thC houses facing the sea on NW side of street.

Pitched natural slate roof with rendered chimney to right end. Moulded overhanging eaves course carries half-round metal gutters on eaves board.

Front wall is pebble dashed. Left bay is narrower than the right one and contains the main entrance in a semi-elliptical headed opening. Modern door with sidelights (with aprons). Consoles support timber entablature under fanlight. It is abutted by a modern glazed timber porch (on dwarf brick wall) with hipped artificial slate roof. To each floor above there is a single modern timber top hung window, with that to second floor diminished in height.

The right bay has a canted bay window rising full height, with canted natural slate roof tied into main roof and sharing common eaves. Each face of the bay window has a modern timber top hung window. Those to each side are narrower than that to front. Those second floor are slightly diminished in height.

A modern brick wall and steel railings enclose front garden. Modern front gate.

Left gable is party wall with No.13 Seaview (HB16/12/017A).

Right gable is party wall with No.15 Seaview (HB16/12/017C).

Rear elevation was not inspected.

Historical information

First appears in the Valuation revision book entry form 1880, along with No.13. This was the last pair in this terrace of six houses to be built, the first pair (Nos. 17 and 18) being erected in 1877.

Primary sources
1. Valuation revision book (PRONI: VAL 12B/22/23B, p.185.

Criteria for listing: architectural interest

Not listed

Criteria for listing: historic interest

Not listed

Evaluation

Although this terrace house has been much altered, its scale and proportion are in character with the rest of the buildings along the sea front. However, its late date and modernisation mean that it is not of special architectural or historic interest.

Nearby in the register

Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.

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