46 Moneyslane Road

The Department's description

Exterior description and setting

Detached symmetrical multi-bay two-storey with attic rendered house, built c.1870, largely rebuilt c.2006. Rectangular on plan facing north with modern bar abutting the rear elevation, built c.2006. Located on an elevated site at a crossroads in Lowtown at the junction of Moneyslane Road and Closkelt Road.

Pitched natural slate roof with black clay ridge tiles, cement verges and replacement rendered chimneystacks with clay pots. Replacement cast-iron rainwater goods to rendered eaves course. Ruled-and-lined cement rendered walling with rendered quoins. Square-headed window openings with granite sills and replacement 2/2 timber sash windows with exposed sash boxes.

Symmetrical front elevation is five windows wide, raised during recent renovations to accommodate attic storey. Central square-headed door opening with cut granite surround, replacement flat-panelled timber door and rectangular overlight. Door opens onto stone setts with granite kerbs and three steps rising to the street built in stone setts. Front area enclosed to the road by original decorative wrought-iron railings on rendered plinth wall with matching pedestrian gate. (marker’s name ‘J. Walker Ballyward’)

East gable fronts onto the street and has two windows at ground floor, a single window at first floor and a further window opening at attic level with replacement timber casement window.

Rear south elevation is five windows wide and partially abutted by two-storey pub, built c.2006. The ground floor opens onto a raised paved terrace with storage units below serving the pub and bitmac parking area beyond.

West gable has a window and door opening to the ground floor with replacement timber glazed door, two window openings to the first floor and a further window opening to attic level, as per east elevation.

Setting

Located at a crossroads in the village of Lowtown, on an elevated site with a new public house built to the rear having a double-height glazed gabled elevation.

Roof Natural slate
Walling Render
Windows timber
RWG cast-iron

Historical information

Turley’s Bar was built by Margaret Turley c1870 and remains a house and bar.

Buildings are shown on the site on the first and second editions of the ordnance survey (1833-4 and 1860) but these do not appear to have survived. The present house is first shown on the third edition OS map of 1901-2 together with outbuildings forming a courtyard to the south-west (largely gone).

The house and outbuildings on an acre of land, initially leased by John Turley to James Gilmore and valued at £4, were taken over by Margaret Turley in 1868 and the valuation rose to £8 the same year and again to £12.10s in 1872. A shop was added to the valuation at around this time. This change in valuation gives a likely date of c1870 for the construction of the dwelling house. The shop and dwelling were taken over by Margaret’s son Patrick Turley, a minor local landlord, in 1883, and shortly afterwards ‘public house’ was added to the description of the buildings.

In the 1901 census we find that Patrick Turley was a Catholic farmer and publican of 60 years whose young second wife of 36 ran the shop. The couple had four children and employed three live-in servants, one to work on the farm, a general labourer and a male domestic. The ten-room house was designated first class and had 29 outbuildings including six stables and two coach houses. Out-offices also included many agricultural buildings such as piggeries and cow/calf houses.

Patrick Turley died 5th October 1911 a relatively wealthy man, leaving a fortune of over £7,000 (worth over £400,000 today) and the pub and house then passed to his widow Sarah who became the owner in fee in 1914. In 1933/4 the accommodation in the house comprised a reception, kitchen bedroom and scullery on the ground floor and two receptions, five bedrooms, a bathroom and WC on the first floor. Turnover from the bar was £350 in 1933 and £336 in 1932. A plan attached to valuer’s notes shows that the shop was at that time situated within the dwelling house and the bar was to the rear as it is today.

In 2006 the house and bar underwent a complete renovation having been granted funding from the Natural Resource Rural Tourism Initiative (NRRTI) with the involvement of the Mourne Heritage Trust. A scheme for the house and bar was completed, during which most of the original interior was removed. The building also shows signs of having been raised in height which may also have been carried out as part of the recent renovations. (www.mournelive.com)

References:

Primary Sources

1. PRONI OS/6/3/35/1 First Edition OS Map 1833-4
2. PRONI OS/6/3/35/2 Second Edition OS map 1860
3. PRONI OS/6/3/35/3 Third Edition OS Map 1901-2
4. PRONI OS/6/3/35/4 Fourth Edition OS Map 1902-20
5. PRONI VAL/2/B/3/51A Griffith’s Valuation (1863)
6. PRONI VAL/12/B/16/20A-E Annual Revisions (1864-1930)
7. PRONI VAL/3/C/4/3 First General Revaluation (1933-57)
8. PRONI VAL/3/D/4/3/Q/4 First General Revaluation (1933-57)
9. PRONI Will of Margaret Turley died 8 Feb 1886
10. PRONI Will of Patrick Turley 5th October 1911

Secondary Sources

1. www.mournelive.com

Criteria for listing: architectural interest

Not listed

Criteria for listing: historic interest

Not listed

Evaluation

Detached symmetrical multi-bay two-storey with attic rendered house, built c.1870, largely rebuilt c.2006. Very little original fabric survives and it has been altered to accommodate an additional storey. The most original fabric and detailing has compromised the character of the building and it does not meet the statutory and policy tests as a building of special architectural or historic interest.