Historic Buildings Record · Northern Ireland
25 Seaview
Ringmackilroy, Newry, Mourne and Down, Northern Ireland
The record
- Designation
- Record only (not listed)
- Grade
- Record Only
- Type
- House
- Date of construction
- 1860 - 1879
- Address
- 25 Seaview, Warrenpoint, Newry, Co Down, BT34 3NJ
- Townland
- Ringmackilroy
- Council
- Newry, Mourne and Down
- Country
- Northern Ireland
- Coordinates
- 54.09986, -6.24673
- Date of survey
- 25 November 1999
- HB reference
- HB16/12/018 E
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Shown on 3 historical map sheets, the earliest the 1854 "Ireland." (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries).
The Department's description
Exterior description and setting
Left one of a pair of two and a half storey/ two bay houses on the N side of the road facing the sea.
Pitched natural slate roof with rendered and painted chimneystack to party wall with adjoining house to right (HB16/12/018F). Corbelled eaves course supports cast-iron half round gutters, which drain into a secondary gutter running beneath the cill level of the attic windows. Two wall-head dormers with pitched natural slate roof and decorative fretted bargeboards. Left and right cheeks are slate hung.
Walls are rendered and painted; the ground floor is band rusticated. Moulded cill courses to first floor and attic windows.
Left bay has segmental-headed doorway with moulded stucco architrave and decorative keyblock. Entrance is accessed by a path from the road and up five external steps. Modern door with 1x3 sidelights. Over is a plainly glazed fanlight. To its right is a timber 1/1 top-hung casement window with moulded stucco architrave, decorative keyblock, foliated knee-brackets and painted cill. Aligned above to first floor are two similar windows (but with plain moulded kneed architraves). Each dormer contains a segmental-headed, 1/1 top-hung casement window.
Left gable is abutted by adjoining house 24 Seaview (HB16/12/018D).
Rear elevation was not inspected.
Right gable is abutted by adjoining house 26 Seaview (HB16/12/018F).
House has a garden area to front, which is enclosed by a dwarf wall carrying modern metal railings with gate to left.
Historical information
This and its adjoining one (HB16/12/018F) are both first cited in the Valuation revision book entry of 1879.
Primary sources
1. Valuation revision books (PRONI: VAL 12B/22/23B).
Criteria for listing: architectural interest
Not listed
Criteria for listing: historic interest
Not listed
Evaluation
One of a pair of two and half storey houses on Seaview. Of a relatively late date and not of special architectural or historic interest.
Nearby in the register
- 26 SeaviewHouseunder 1 mi
- 24 SeaviewHouseunder 1 mi
- 23 SeaviewHouseunder 1 mi
- 22 SeaviewHouseunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.