Historic Buildings Record · Northern Ireland
Laundry at
Ballinacraig, Newry, Mourne and Down, Northern Ireland
The record
- Designation
- Record only (not listed)
- Grade
- Record Only
- Type
- Factory
- Date of construction
- 1900 - 1919
- Address
- Laundry at, St. Clare’s Convent, High Street, Newry, Co Down, BT34 1HB
- Townland
- Ballinacraig
- Council
- Newry, Mourne and Down
- Country
- Northern Ireland
- Coordinates
- 54.17392, -6.33432
- HB reference
- HB16/28/054 E
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 1891 "Ireland 16" (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries).
The Department's description
Exterior description and setting
Part of an extensive complex which also comprises the convent and chapel (HB16/28/054A), burial vault (HB16/28/054B), oratory (HB16/28/054C), school (HB16/28/054D) and wells (HB16/28/054F). This laundry is a separate building at the south-east corner of the main block.
A one-storey/ three-bay building, orientated north-south. Pitched natural slate roof with raised verges coped with concrete and moulded kneeler stones. Raised rectangular ventilator towards north end of ridge. Ogee cast-iron gutters. Lined smooth cement rendered walls to raised base course. All openings have segmental heads and the windows have concrete cills.
Double-leaf partly-glazed timber entrance door (with transom light over) to middle of east elevation. At left on this wall is a 6/6 sliding sash window. Projecting from wall at right is a two-stage chimney which rises above the eaves. There is a hearth at the base of its outside face. This served an abutting building, now gone.
The south gable has a door at right, with transom over (now sheeted over). At left is a 6/6 sliding sash.
The west elevation is blank and overgrown with vegetation.
The north gable has a pair of top-opening metal-framed windows.
Historical information
The laundry first appears in a valuation revision book entry of 1915.
Primary sources:
1. Valuation Revision book, 1915 (PRONI: VAL 12E/22/17B, p.51).
Criteria for listing: architectural interest
Not listed
Criteria for listing: historic interest
Not listed
Evaluation
A one-storey/ three-bay building. This building continues to perform an important service to the convent. The drying racks are of some note.
Nearby in the register
- First Presbyterian Meeting House and Burial GroundChurchunder 1 mi
- Chapel at St Clare's ConventReligious Houseunder 1 mi
- St. Clare’s Convent Primary SchoolSchoolunder 1 mi
- Vault at St. Clare’s ConventMausoleumunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.