Historic Buildings Record · Northern Ireland
The Green
Killinchy in the Woods, Newry, Mourne and Down, Northern Ireland
The record
- Designation
- Record only (not listed)
- Grade
- Record Only
- Type
- House
- Date of construction
- 1820 - 1839
- Address
- The Green, No.7 in lane to north of Glasswater Road, Killinchy in the Woods, Crossgar, Co Down
- Townland
- Killinchy in the Woods
- Council
- Newry, Mourne and Down
- Country
- Northern Ireland
- Coordinates
- 54.41927, -5.75109
- Date of survey
- 24 May 2000
- HB reference
- HB18/04/030
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
Long, single storey vernacular dwelling of probable pre 1834 origin. The property is set to the E side of a long winding lane to the N of Glasswater Road, c.1.5 miles N of Crossgar.
The front façade faces roughly S and is asymmetrical. To the right of centre is a timber sheeted door with small opening (possibly originally glazed). To the left of the doorway are two widely spaced sash windows with horizontal and vertical glazing bars- 6/6 but not arranged in Georgian fashion. To the right of the door are two similar windows, grouped more closely together.
Both gables are blank. To the rear there is a left of centre door, as front. To the right of this are two windows of slightly differing size. Both have lost much of their frames.
The façade has been harled at some stage but much of this has come away revealing the rubble construction. The gabled roof is covered in asbestos ‘slate’. There are four rendered brick chimney stacks. Sections of cast iron rw goods remain.
To the immediate E of the house are the remains of single storey, rubble-built outbuildings.
Historical information
A building is shown on this site on the OS map of 1834, which probably corresponds to the house we see today. At this stage the building was of too low a grade to be recorded in the valuation returns, but it is recorded in that of 1863 as the home of one William Jackson. Jacksons descendants remained in possession of the property until c.1931, when it was acquired by the present owner’s family. The house has been vacant since 1977.
References- Primary sources
1 PRONI OS/6/3/23/1 OS map, 1834, Down 23
2 PRONI VAL/1B/331 1st valuation, Killinchy, c.1835-38
3 PRONI OS/6/3/23/2 OS map, 1860, Down 23
4 PRONI 2nd valuation (in print), Killinchy, 1863
5 PRONI OS/6/3/23/3 OS map, 1901, Down 23
6 PRONI OS/6/3/23/4 OS map, 1920, Down 23
Criteria for listing: architectural interest
Not listed
Criteria for listing: historic interest
Not listed
Evaluation
Long, single storey vernacular dwelling of probable pre 1834 origin. The roof is now sports asbestos ‘slates’
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