Historic Buildings Record · Northern Ireland
Dromene and Knockdonagh
Newry, Mourne and Down, Northern Ireland
The record
- Designation
- Record only (not listed)
- Grade
- D1 Record Only
- Type
- House
- Address
- Dromene and Knockdonagh, 19 Chapel Road, Bessbrook, Co. Armagh, BT35 7AU
- Council
- Newry, Mourne and Down
- Country
- Northern Ireland
- Coordinates
- 54.19375, -6.39895
- Date of survey
- 02 December 2014
- HB reference
- HB16/22/042
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 1636 "Vltoniae Orientalis Pars" (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries).
The Department's description
Exterior description and setting
These buildings were surveyed in the First Survey but not listed. A partial record only was taken during the Second Survey as the buildings are not worthy of a full survey.
An attached pair of symmetrical two storey three bay houses with separate two storey rear returns and a painted smooth render finish; natural slate roof, painted stone cills, stone quoins and central door case having a segmental arched fanlight, side lights and a panelled painted timber door with timber canopy above. Rendered rectangular section chimneys to gables and three part windows to GF. Knockdonagh has replacement timber casement windows with horizontal glazing bars and Dromene retains double hung sliding timber sashes with glazing bars to front elevation, timber casements to rear. Mixture of cast iron and uPVC RWGs; half-round guttering discharging to circular-section downpipes. Outbuilding to rear.
Criteria for listing: architectural interest
Not listed
Criteria for listing: historic interest
Not listed
Evaluation
These buildings were surveyed in the First Survey but not listed. A partial record only was taken during the Second Survey as the buildings are not worthy of a full survey.
An attached pair of symmetrical two storey three bay houses with separate two storey rear returns and a painted smooth render finish; natural slate roof, painted stone cills, stone quoins and central door case having a segmental arched fanlight, side lights and a panelled painted timber door with timber canopy above. Rendered rectangular section chimneys to gables and three part windows to GF. Knockdonagh has replacement timber casement windows with horizontal glazing bars and Dromene retains double hung sliding timber sashes with glazing bars to front elevation, timber casements to rear. Mixture of cast iron and uPVC RWGs; half-round guttering discharging to circular-section downpipes. Outbuilding to rear.
General comments
These buildings were surveyed in the First Survey but not listed. A partial record only was taken during the Second Survey as the buildings are not worthy of a full survey.
An attached pair of symmetrical two storey three bay houses with separate two storey rear returns and a painted smooth render finish; natural slate roof, painted stone cills, stone quoins and central door case having a segmental arched fanlight, side lights and a panelled painted timber door with timber canopy above. Rendered rectangular section chimneys to gables and three part windows to GF. Knockdonagh has replacement timber casement windows with horizontal glazing bars and Dromene retains double hung sliding timber sashes with glazing bars to front elevation, timber casements to rear. Mixture of cast iron and uPVC RWGs; half-round guttering discharging to circular-section downpipes. Outbuilding to rear.
Nearby in the register
- FORMER SCHOOL MASTER'S HOUSEHOUSEunder 1 mi
- Church of SS Peter and PaulChurchunder 1 mi
- Abbey ViewHouseunder 1 mi
- West Lodge and West CottageHouseunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.