Historic Buildings Record · Northern Ireland
Gate Screen to Forkhill House
Tievecrom, Newry, Mourne and Down, Northern Ireland
The record
- Designation
- Listed building, Grade B2
- Grade
- B2
- Type
- Gates/ Screens/ Lodges
- Date of listing
- 3 December 1992
- Date of construction
- 1840 - 1859
- Address
- Gate Screen to Forkhill House, 22 Captains Road, Forkhill, Newry, Co Armagh, BT35 9RS
- Townland
- Tievecrom
- Council
- Newry, Mourne and Down
- Country
- Northern Ireland
- Coordinates
- 54.06740, -6.43105
- Date of survey
- 31 July 2000
- HB reference
- HB16/15/031 C
Slide toward Today to fade the historical sheet and see the modern map underneath.
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Shown on 4 historical map sheets, the earliest the 1838 "Ireland, north sheet." (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries).
The Department's description
Exterior description and setting
A lime-rendered masonry gate-screen creating an notable entrance to Forkhill House (HB16/15/031A).
It is aligned NW-SE along the E side of Captains Road with lime rendered rubble granite walls (to courses), ashlar quoins and oversailing coping stones. The four-centred arch has ashlar granite jambs, voussoirs and keystone. It supports a pair of tall cast-iron gates with fleur-de-lis finials and a quatrefoil panel surmounted by later row of flower heads. The gate screen is abutted by a quarter-height rubble stone boundary wall with stone copings.
Historical information
Probably dates from around 1840 when the adjoining gate lodge was enlarged and refurbished.
Secondary sources:
1. J A K Dean ‘Gate Lodges of Ulster’, p.37 (Belfast, 1994).
Criteria for listing: architectural interest
A. Style
B. Proportion
D. Plan Form
J. Setting
K. Group value
Criteria for listing: historic interest
X. Local Interest
Evaluation
A surprising feature in this rural landscape, defining the entrance to Forkhill House (HB16/15/031A). Adjoins gate lodge (HB16/15/031D).
Nearby in the register
- Gate Lodge to Forkhill HouseGates/ Screens/ Lodgesunder 1 mi
- Forkhill HouseHouseunder 1 mi
- FarmyardFarm Buildingsunder 1 mi
- Water pumpPumpunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.