Historic Buildings Record · Northern Ireland
160 Dublin Road
Fathom Lower, Newry, Mourne and Down, Northern Ireland
The record
- Designation
- Record only (not listed)
- Grade
- Record Only
- Type
- House
- Date of construction
- 1800 - 1819
- Address
- 160 Dublin Road, Newry, Co Armagh, BT35 8RN
- Townland
- Fathom Lower
- Council
- Newry, Mourne and Down
- Country
- Northern Ireland
- Coordinates
- 54.13832, -6.34048
- Date of survey
- 01 June 2000
- HB reference
- HB16/13/012
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Shown on 5 historical map sheets, the earliest the 1636 "Vltoniae Orientalis Pars" (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries).
The Department's description
Exterior description and setting
A single storey, four bay vernacular house aligned N-S on the E side of the Dublin Road.
Pitched natural slate roof; right end has asbestos slates. There is a brick chimney placed at party wall between bays 1 and 2, and between bays 3 and 4 (as viewed from W). Half-round metal rainwater goods.
Walls are cement rendered and painted, with a chamfered base-course and stepped quoins to each elevation. All windows are modern timber top-hung casements (unless otherwise stated) with painted reveals and painted concrete cills.
Principal elevation faces W. Bay 2 has a gabled windbreak porch to right with pitched natural slate roof and decorative timber bargeboards. Main face is decoratively painted and contains a modern glazed timber door. Right and left cheeks are blank. To its left is a window. Extreme left bay has two windows; that to left is a narrow 1x3 casement. Bays 3 and 4 each have a single window to centre.
Left gable is abutted by a lower addition (exposed section is blank). It has a pitched corrugated metal roof with cement rendered skew to the exposed gable. Walls are as house. There is a t+g door to right on front elevation. Left gable is blank. Rear elevation cement rendered with a modern door to left.
Rear elevation is unpainted and has a window to each bay. All are 1x3 metal-framed casements, with the exception of that to extreme left end which is 1/2 with a rendered reveal. There is a modern timber door with corrugated plastic awning set at left of extreme right bay.
Right gable is blank.
Setting:
The house is separated from the road by a well-maintained hedged garden to front and has a small elevated garden to rear.
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, similar to the present one (although possibly not as long). It is valued at £1.5s.0d in the 1862 second Valuation and there is no change thereafter. It probably assumed its present length by 1862.
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.15).
4. Valuation Revision book, 1877 (PRONI - VAL 12B/15/1A-K).
Criteria for listing: architectural interest
Not listed
Criteria for listing: historic interest
Not listed
Evaluation
A much altered vernacular cottage which retains few features of interest.
Nearby in the register
- Bridgeunder 1 mi
- Rogers Bridge, Upper Fathom Road, Newry, Co ArmaghBridgeunder 1 mi
- Killeen Bridge, Killeen, Newry, Co ArmaghBridgeunder 1 mi
- 46 Flagstaff RoadHouseunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.