Historic Buildings Record · Northern Ireland
11 Molly Road
Foughill Otra, Newry, Mourne and Down, Northern Ireland
The record
- Designation
- Record only (not listed)
- Grade
- Record Only
- Type
- House
- Date of construction
- 1860 - 1879
- Address
- 11 Molly Road, Jonesborough, Newry, Co Armagh, BT35 8HY
- Townland
- Foughill Otra
- Council
- Newry, Mourne and Down
- Country
- Northern Ireland
- Coordinates
- 54.09088, -6.38580
- Date of survey
- 24 July 2000
- HB reference
- HB16/15/050
Slide toward Today to fade the historical sheet and see the modern map underneath.
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Shown on 3 historical map sheets, the earliest the 1854 "Ireland." (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries).
The Department's description
Exterior description and setting
A two bay vernacular house aligned N-S on a bend on the SE side of Molly’s Road. Left bay is single-storey and right bay is two-storey.
Pitched natural slate roof with tiled verges and a chimney to each end gable – that to right is red brick and that to left is rendered. No rainwater goods.
Principal elevation faces W. All walls are lime-rendered rubble stone. Left bay has a window opening (now boarded over) with granite cill – all are detailed as this. Right bay has a windbreak porch to left end and a window to each floor to its right. Porch has a natural slate monopitched roof and t+g entrance door; left and right cheeks are blank.
Left gable of left bay is abutted by a lower lean-to outbuilding; the exposed section is blank. Lean-to has corrugated metal roof and t+g sheeted door to W face.
Rear elevation is cement rendered. Only one opening to this elevation - a metal-frame window to first floor of left bay.
Right gable is abutted by a single-storey outbuilding; the exposed section is blank.
Outbuilding is detailed as house with pitched corrugated metal roof and t+g door to W face. The right gable of this outbuilding is abutted by a smaller outbuilding, detailed as before but with natural slate roof.
Setting:
House is enclosed at road by a lime rendered random rubble wall with stone copings and modern square-in-section gate piers which support a pair of wrought-iron loop-headed gates. To front site is a small garden with outbuilding (of no interest).
Historical information
Although a building is shown at this spot on the 1835 map, its ground plan is not the same as the present one. The Valuation Revision book cites a “new house” in 1875.
Primary sources:
1. OS 6” map, 1st edition, Co Armagh sheet 32 (PRONI OS 6/2/32/1).
2. Valuation Revision book, 1875 (PRONI VAL 12B/15/15A, p.95).
Criteria for listing: architectural interest
Not listed
Criteria for listing: historic interest
Not listed
Evaluation
An attractive vernacular house with raised right bay and outbuildings to each gable reflecting the tradition of extending both upwards and longitudinally.
Nearby in the register
- 5 Foughilletra RoadHouseunder 1 mi
- Moore's BridgeBridgeunder 1 mi
- 19 Foughilletra RoadHouseunder 1 mi
- Jonesborough Primary SchoolSchoolunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.