17 Jonesborough Village

The Department's description

Exterior description and setting

A two-storey public house aligned NE-SW along the roadside, with modern additions to rear and left gable. It is three openings wide.

Pitched natural slate roof with three courses of decorative slates (two are fishscale, that between is triangular). There are three cement rendered chimneys; one to each gable and another set to right of centre. An advanced eaves course supports half-round metal rainwater goods. Walls are wet-dashed with irregular stucco cement quoins. All cills are painted granite.

Principal elevation faces SE. To each ground floor end of the façade is a 6/6 sliding sash window with horns; to centre is a 3x1 fixed-pane window (in a slightly enlarged original opening) with a pair of timber sheeted doors to its right. To first floor are three equally spaced 3/3 sliding sash windows, diminished in height. Directly above central openings is a hand-painted timber fascia board.

Left gable is abutted by a modern single-storey addition which in turn is abutted by a double-pile single-storey block – all detailed as house. The exposed section is blank.

Rear elevation is almost completely abutted by modern additions. At left is a single-storey (+ basement). To centre is a single-storey flat-roofed link block leading to the rear pile of addition to left gable. The exposed rear elevation of main block could not be seen. All openings are modern and of no interest.

Right gable has a 2/2 sliding sash window with no cill.

None of the new additions is of special interest.

Historical information

A building, probably the present one, is shown on the 1835 OS map. It is described as a two-storey house (37ft x 20ft x 13ft 6in) in the First Valuation book. This is probably the same building as the present one.

The first survey slide shows the building as a dwelling. All ground floor windows are 6/6 sliding sashes and those to first floor are 1/1 sashes – all with horns. Walls are lime rendered and whitewashed. Set to the left of the house is a small outbuilding with gable to the road. It is detailed as house with pitched corrugated metal roof.

Primary sources:
1. OS 6” map, 1st edition, Co Armagh sheet 32 (PRONI OS 6/2/32/1).
2. First Valuation book, 1836 (PRONI VAL 1B/ 243, p.37).
3. 1st survey slide dated April 1991.

Criteria for listing: architectural interest

Not listed

Criteria for listing: historic interest

Not listed

Evaluation

A two-storey public house aligned along the roadside, with modern additions to rear and left gable. This building has been extensively refurbished and retains no features of interest.