Historic Buildings Record · Northern Ireland
Vernacular House
Aghadavoyle, Newry, Mourne and Down, Northern Ireland
The record
- Designation
- Record only (not listed)
- Grade
- Record Only
- Type
- House
- Date of construction
- 1860 - 1879
- Address
- Vernacular House, S of 16 Dernaroy Road, Killevy, Newry, Co Armagh, BT35 8SP
- Townland
- Aghadavoyle
- Council
- Newry, Mourne and Down
- Country
- Northern Ireland
- Coordinates
- 54.10345, -6.40518
- Date of survey
- 24 July 2000
- HB reference
- HB16/15/038
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 single-storey, two-bay vernacular house with outbuildings to right gable, aligned N-S on the W side of Dernaroy Road.
Pitched natural slate roof with concrete skews and brick chimney to each gable. Slightly advanced eaves course. No rainwater goods. Walls are whitewashed lime-rendered rubble stone.
Principal elevation faces E. Left bay has a central exposed box 2/2 sliding sash (with horns) and whitewashed granite cill. Right bay has a windbreak porch to left and a window, detailed as before, to right (although cill is set below window level). Porch has a natural slate lean-to roof and metal gutter. Front face has a 1950s glazed timber door. Right and left cheeks are blank.
Left gable is blank.
Rear elevation has an infilled window opening set to left.
Right gable is completely abutted by an outbuilding with pitched corrugated metal roof. E elevation has a large pair of t+g sheeted doors. Its right gable is abutted by a lower and narrower outbuilding (see later); the exposed section is blank. Rear elevation has a metal-framed top-hung casement window with obscured glass to extreme right-end. Outbuilding has a pitched natural slate roof with a corrugated metal door to extreme left end of E face. Right gable has a small top-hung 2x1 timber window to apex. Rear elevation is blank.
To front are two small outbuildings.
Setting:
Dwelling is enclosed from the road by a rubble stone wall with squared granite gate piers (with pyramidal copings) supporting a cast-iron gate.
Historical information
Although a building is shown at this spot on both the 1835 and 1861 OS maps, it does not share the ground plan of the present one. It may have been erected around 1862 as its rateable value (£1) does not change thereafter.
Primary sources:
1. OS 6” map, 1st edition, Co Armagh sheet 29 (PRONI OS 6/2/29/1).
2. OS 6” map, 2nd edition, Co Armagh sheet 29 (PRONI OS 6/2/29/2).
3. Second Valuation, Co Armagh, Newry Union (published 1864; MA dates from 1862).
4. Valuation Revision books (PRONI VAL 12B/15/15A-D).
Criteria for listing: architectural interest
Not listed
Criteria for listing: historic interest
Not listed
Evaluation
A single-storey, two-bay, direct-entry vernacular house with outbuildings to road; along with its similarly detailed neighbour (HB16/15/039) it forms an attractive group but is not of special architectural or historic interest.
Nearby in the register
- Vernacular HouseHouseunder 1 mi
- Gate Lodge to Hawthorn HillGates/ Screens/ Lodgesunder 1 mi
- Dwelling off lane onHouseunder 1 mi
- Hawthorn HillHouseunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.