Historic Buildings Record · Northern Ireland
32 Ballintemple Road
Ballintemple, Newry, Mourne and Down, Northern Ireland
The record
- Designation
- Record only (not listed)
- Grade
- Record Only
- Type
- House
- Date of construction
- 1800 - 1819
- Address
- 32 Ballintemple Road, Newry, Co Armagh, BT35 8LQ
- Townland
- Ballintemple
- Council
- Newry, Mourne and Down
- Country
- Northern Ireland
- Coordinates
- 54.13086, -6.41928
- Date of survey
- 12 June 2000
- HB reference
- HB16/13/068
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 1636 "Vltoniae Orientalis Pars" (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries).
The Department's description
Exterior description and setting
A single-storey, two-bay vernacular house roughly N-S on the E slope of Slieve Gullion, in the AONB Ring of Gullion.
Pitched natural slate roof with rendered chimney to centre. Half round cast-iron rainwater goods. Rear pitch has a central skew. Walls are lime rendered random rubble.
Principal elevation faces E. To extreme right end of right bay is a windbreak porch with catslide roof and t+g sheeted entrance door. Left and right cheeks are blank. To its left is a granite seat. Set to left of porch is a single window – one to each bay, both are boarded over and have granite cills.
Left gable is blank.
Right gable is completely abutted by a single-storey outbuilding with pitched corrugated metal roof and t+g sheeted door to centre. Its right gable is abutted by a lean-to and another outbuilding (of no interest). The exposed section is blank.
Setting.
Dwelling has a small garden area to front enclosed by a rubble stone wall on all three sides.
Historical information
A small building is shown here on the 1835 OS Map. Its valuation in 1862 is only 5s and remains the case in subsequent valuations. It is probably of early 19th century date.
Primary sources:
1. First edition OS 6” map, Co Armagh Sheet 29, 1835 (PRONI – OS 6/2/29/1).
2. Second Valuation book, 1862 (PRONI – VAL 2B/2/37H, p 24).
3. Valuation Revision books, 1860s-1920s (PRONI – VAL 12B/15/17A-D).
Criteria for listing: architectural interest
Not listed
Criteria for listing: historic interest
Not listed
Evaluation
An attractive vernacular house situated on the East slope of Slieve Gullion overlooking the Ring of Gullion AONB.
Nearby in the register
- 30 Ballintemple RoadHouseunder 1 mi
- Dwelling 290m East of 32 Ballintemple RoadHouseunder 1 mi
- St Bline's WellWellunder 1 mi
- Killevy ChurchesChurchunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.