3 Corry’s Square

The Department's description

Exterior description and setting

Right of a pair of three storey houses on north side of Corry’s Square.

Artificial slated roof is pitched with four modern vents to front pitch, no chimneys and semicircular plastic rainwater goods.

Wall to south elevation (façade) is lined cement render with raised chamfered basecourse, string course between ground and first floors and similar between first and second floors. Right corner has a vertical raised render band at join with adjacent property. Main entrance is to ground floor right and consists of a timber door with plain glazed transom overlight. Door is four panelled (top two leaded glass) modern painted timber. To ground floor left is a single 1/1 modern 1/1 sliding sash window with render cill. There are two similar windows to each upper floor, with those to upper floor diminished in height.

East gable abuts a larger property (no 2) and left gable is party wall with other in pair (no 4), (HB16/25/009B).

North (rear) elevation is modern smooth cement render and was not inspected to ground and first floors. Between first and second floors, to left of elevation is a modern 1/1 top-hung timber window and to second floor right, is a similar smaller window; both have thin modern concrete cills.

Historical information

Erected along with the adjoining house and the pair on the opposite corner when the houses along Maginnis St were erected. Not shown on the 1861 OS map, but cited in the 1865 Valuation revision book, indicating an early 1860s construction date.

Sources:

1. OS 6" map (1861) Co Down Sheet 46 (PRONI – OS 9/15/2/12);
2. PRONI – VAL 12B/15/1A, p.198 (1865 valuation).

Criteria for listing: architectural interest

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Criteria for listing: historic interest

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Evaluation

Most original features have now been lost and the building has little historic or architectural interest.