Historic Buildings Record · Northern Ireland
53 Fathom Line
Fathom Lower, Newry, Mourne and Down, Northern Ireland
The record
- Designation
- Record only (not listed)
- Grade
- Record Only
- Type
- House
- Date of construction
- 1860 - 1879
- Address
- 53 Fathom Line, Newry, Co Armagh, BT35 8QN
- Townland
- Fathom Lower
- Council
- Newry, Mourne and Down
- Country
- Northern Ireland
- Coordinates
- 54.14245, -6.31967
- Date of survey
- 09 May 2000
- HB reference
- HB16/13/010
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 1854 "Ireland." (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries).
The Department's description
Exterior description and setting
A two storey, three bay house on W side of the Fathom Line, aligned roughly N-S.
Pitched natural slate roof with brick chimney to left gable. Advanced smooth rendered and painted eaves course supports half-round plastic rainwater goods. Walls are cement dashed and painted with smooth rendered and painted basecourse. Two platbands – one below eaves level and the other at cill level of first floor; corners are also smooth rendered.
Principal elevation faces E. All windows are modern top-hung timber casements with smooth rendered and painted architraves and cills. Each bay has a window to each floor, all equally aligned; that to G/F right bay is landscape. Set to the right of the middle window is a modern glazed timber door with matching sidelight to its right.
Left and right gables are blank. The latter is abutted by a single-storey flat roof addition (of no interest).
Rear elevation is abutted to left and middle bays by a two-storey extension with flat roof rising above the eaves level of main block. Extension is detailed as house. The exposed right bay of main block has a window to ground floor.
Setting.
To front is a small garden enclosed to road by a cement rendered wall, square-in-section gate piers support modern cast-iron gates. To rear, the garden rises steeply with the slope of the hill.
Historical information
A building is shown here on the 1835 OS map. It has no valuation so must have been a small one storey building. It is valued at £1 in the 1862 second Valuation. Its rateable value increases to £2.5s.0d in 1877 and there is no change thereafter. It was probably raised to its present two storey form at that date.
Primary sources:
1. First edition OS 6" map, Co Armagh sheet 29, 1835 (PRONI - OS 6/2/29/1).
2. Second edition OS 6" map, Co Armagh sheet 29, 1861 (PRONI - OS 6/2/29/2).
3. Second Valuation book, 1862 (PRONI - VAL 2B/2/39A, p.19).
4. Valuation Revision book, 1877 (PRONI - VAL 12B/15/1D, p.96).
Criteria for listing: architectural interest
Not listed
Criteria for listing: historic interest
Not listed
Evaluation
A much altered house retaining few features of interest.
Nearby in the register
- Fathom HouseHouseunder 1 mi
- BelvedereGarden Featuresunder 1 mi
- 46 Flagstaff RoadHouseunder 1 mi
- AshtonHouseunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.