Historic Buildings Record · Northern Ireland
55 Derryboy Road
Ballygoskin, Newry, Mourne and Down, Northern Ireland
The record
- Designation
- Record only (not listed)
- Grade
- Record Only
- Type
- House
- Date of construction
- 1820 - 1839
- Address
- 55 Derryboy Road, Ballygoskin, Crossgar, Co. Down, BT30 9LJ
- Townland
- Ballygoskin
- Council
- Newry, Mourne and Down
- Country
- Northern Ireland
- Coordinates
- 54.44731, -5.69871
- Date of survey
- 25 June 1999
- HB reference
- HB18/02/028
Slide toward Today to fade the historical sheet and see the modern map underneath.
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Shown on 5 historical map sheets, the earliest the 1794 "Sheet 55. (Cary's England, Wales, and Scotland)." (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries).
The Department's description
Exterior description and setting
Single storey vernacular house, set on the N side of the Derryboy Road, c.3.5 miles N of Crossgar.
The front (S) façade has a modern partly glazed door to the centre left. To the left of this is a sash window with Georgian panes (six over six), with two similar windows to the right of the door. The W gable has a similar window to the left at ground level and a small window to the right at the upper level (also with a sash frame but two over two). The left side of this gable merges with the W face of a large single storey flat roofed extension which has a multi pane casement window.
The N gable has a timber built outbuilding attached, with a corrugated iron (gabled) roof.
The rear is completely covered by a large, single storey extension with a flat roof and modern windows.
The façade is of the original house is finished in lined render and painted. The extension is in plain render. Bracketed eaves course to front. The gabled roof is covered in natural slate with two Velux windows to the rear. Three rendered chimney stacks. Cast iron rw goods.
Wrought iron farm gate to W and wrought iron pedestrian gate to W.
Historical information
A house is shown on this site on the OS map of 1834 which probably corresponds (for the most part) with that standing today. The building was of insufficient value to have been noted in the valuation of c.1837, but in that of 1861 it recorded as belonging to a Sarah Anderson.
The extension to the rear was added c.1960s.
References- Primary sources
1 PRONI OS/1/3/24 OS map, 1st ed. 1834, Co. Down 24.
2 PRONI OS/6/3/24/2 OS map, 1st rev., 1859, Co. Down 24.
3 PRONI Second valuation, Killyleagh, 1861. [In print in PRONI search room and Linen Hall Library.]
Criteria for listing: architectural interest
Not listed
Criteria for listing: historic interest
Not listed
Evaluation
Small single storey vernacular house with modern flat roofed extension to the rear
Nearby in the register
- 34 Derryboy RoadHouseunder 1 mi
- 38 Ballygoskin RoadHouseunder 1 mi
- Holly ParkHouseunder 1 mi
- Dry Closet,Closetunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.