73 Carrickgallogly Road

The Department's description

Exterior description and setting

A nineteenth-century roadside farm complex comprising a symmetrical three-bay two-storey dwelling abutted by the remains of an earlier single-storey house to east, located on south side of Carrickgallogly Road, north-west of Newry. The complex is bounded by single-storey outbuildings and limewash and rubblestone walls, all buildings are rectangular on plan and the main dwelling has a central projecting porch.

The main dwelling has a pitched natural slate roof with angled ridge tiles and three cement-rendered shouldered chimneystacks with replacement terracotta pots. Rainwater goods are aluminium and uPVC. The principal elevation (north) and porch is painted ruled-and-lined render with contrasting quoins and plinth; the east and rear elevations are rough-cast lime rendered; the west gable is unpainted cement rendered. Windows are 3/3 timber sliding sashes (central panes are wider) in contrasting lugged rendered surrounds on painted concrete cills (unless otherwise stated). Square-headed door opening to porch with timber sheeted door with latticed timber-framed overlight.

East gable is abutted by lower single-storey remains of earlier dwelling (see later).

Rear elevation (south) has a 2/2 timber sliding sash window to first floor and two windows to ground floor covered by security grilles.

West gable has a window to first floor and single-storey concrete block abutment (store) with corrugated metal roof, timber casement window to rear (south) and timber sheeted door to north.

The surviving section of the original dwelling has a pitched slate roof with angled ridge tiles and redbrick and rough-cast cement rendered chimney stack to east. Rainwater goods are plastic. North elevation has layers of lime-wash over thick solid masonry walls, one half of a 6/6 sash window has been inserted into earlier timber frame with splayed reveals and stone cill; square-headed door opening with painted timber-sheeted door with stone plinth stops. East gable is lime-washed, rear elevation (south) is roughcast and has an infilled window opening with concrete cill.

Outbuildings have pitched corrugated tin roofs, lime-washed rubble walls and a variety of painted timber fixed windows; doors are either painted sheeted timber or painted metal.

Setting:
The complex is set slightly back from the Carrickgallogly Road, with panoramic views to the north. The dwelling sits parallel to the roadside, behind a small concrete yard, bounded to the road by an alcoved lime-washed rubblestone wall with plain gate piers and hand-forged iron gates. To the rear lies a large open space with mature vegetation which gives access to a modern farmyard to the east. The outbuildings are set in a traditional 'street' layout, running parallel to the road at east.

Materials:
Roof: Slate
Walling: Limewashed rubblestone and roughcast render
Windows: Timber sliding sash / casement - all single glazed
RWG: Plastic and aluminium

Historical information

Built in the early 19th century, the house (including the single-storey proportion to the east) and part of the outbuilding abutting to the south-east are first shown on the first edition OS map (1834-35). It is likely that the original house was a single-storey thatched structure, which had an additional storey added later, however there is no evidence for such a change in the Valuation Records, which remained at a rateable value of £4 (Griffith’s 1862; Annual Revisions 1865-1925). The second edition OS map (1860) shows that the western proportion of (what is presently) the house had been removed by this time, whilst the abutting outbuildings to the south-east had been extended eastward and additional detached outbuildings added to the north and south (that to the north remains, lining the roadside). By the early 20th century further detached outbuildings had been erected lining the roadside to the west, however these had been removed by the mid 20th century (sixth edition OS map 1955-56). Contemporary maps show that the footprint of the house, abutting outbuildings and that detached to the north have remained largely unchanged, however additional outbuildings were added to the south-east yard in the latter-half of the 20th century, having concrete walls and corrugated iron or asbestos roofs.

Griffith’s Valuation (1862) shows that the house was occupied by a Daniel McPartland, followed by a Daniel McPartland in 1890 and then a Michael McElroy c.1924. Notes contained in HB File state that the front elevation of the house was altered in the 1950s and the house was re-roofed in the 1970s.

References

Primary Sources
1. PRONI OS/6/2/25/1 First Edition OS map (1834-35)
2. PRONI OS/6/2/25/2 Second Edition OS map (1860)
3. PRONI OS/6/2/25/3 Third Edition OS map (1906)
4. PRONI OS/6/2/25/6 Sixth Edition OS map (1955-56)
5. PRONI VAL/2/A/2/2/25A Griffiths Valuation Map (1862)
6. PRONI VAL/2/B/2/13 Griffiths Valuation (1862)
7. PRONI VAL/12/D/2/25J-K Annual Revision Maps (c.1919-c.1935)
8. PRONI VAL/12/B/15/2A-D Annual Revisions (1865-1929)
9. PRONI VAL/12/F/2/6/6 Annual Revisions (1930-35)
10. HB File (HB16/20/032)

Criteria for listing: architectural interest

A. Style
B. Proportion
C. Ornamentation
I. Quality and survival of Interior
J. Setting
K. Group value

Criteria for listing: historic interest

X. Local Interest
R. Age
S. Authenticity

Evaluation

A well-preserved evolved farm complex, dating in part from the early nineteenth-century, but with later nineteenth- and early-twentieth-century alterations. The complex is representative of a traditional 'street' layout, once more common throughout Ulster. Interest is enhanced by the evidence of alteration and enlargement, the main symmetrical dwelling abutted by a surviving portion of the earlier dwelling house, which was subsequently raised to its current form, leaving only one bay intact. The dwelling is characteristic of the late Victorian period, and retains salient fabric including margined sash windows and a geometric transom light. Traditional finishes are much in evidence, including layered limewash to the farm buildings, as well as what appear to be retention of historic interior features in the house. The complex contributes to the historic rural landscape in this part of County Armagh.

General comments

Second Survey scoping ref N16/20/010