Historic Buildings Record · Northern Ireland
1, 2 & 2a River Street
Ballynacraig, Newry, Mourne and Down, Northern Ireland
The record
- Designation
- Record only (not listed)
- Grade
- Record Only
- Type
- Demolished
- Date of construction
- 1860 - 1879
- Address
- 1, 2 & 2a River Street, Newry, Co Down, BT34 2DQ
- Townland
- Ballynacraig
- Council
- Newry, Mourne and Down
- Country
- Northern Ireland
- Coordinates
- 54.17100, -6.33811
- Date of survey
- 15 August 1997
- HB reference
- HB16/30/012
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
Demolished to make way for the new road. Described in the first survey in 1969 as 'c1880. Three 2-storey houses with attics. The walls are rendered and the roofs are slated. Bargeboards of dormer windows are decorated and a building at rear has very ornate bargeboard. D/H windows with horiz. G.g. are set in openings with moulded arrises. Doors are flanked by plain pilasters rising to consoles supporting cornice. Modillions to plain eaves cornice. Decorated ogee gutter. 7 windows wide.'
Historical information
First Survey card states - 'pre-1880'
Criteria for listing: architectural interest
Not listed
Criteria for listing: historic interest
Not listed
Evaluation
Demolished to make way for new road.
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Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.