Ballykine Lodge

The Department's description

Exterior description and setting

Slightly picturesque, one and a half storey gabled house of c.1900-01 in squared rubble with cream brick dressings, one of a series of similar dwellings constructed along the course of the Mourne-Belfast water conduit (by the Belfast & District Water Commissioners), for those employed in maintaining to the near by pumping station. The property is set on the W side of the Burren Road roughly 2 kilometres W of Ballynahinch.

The left of centre of the irregular E elevation is a single storey gabled porch. To the S face of this is a segmental arch headed door opening with a modern timber door and in / out cream brick dressings as before. To the (gabled) E face of the porch is a segmental arch headed window opening with a sash window frame (2/2). The window has dressings as before and a stone (now painted) cill. The gable has brick parapets with sand stone dressings. To the right of the porch (to main E façade) is a sash window as before.

The S elevation is gabled and has two sash windows to ground floor and two to first floor, all as before.

The W façade has one sash window as before to the far left of the ground floor.

The N face is much obscured by a high stone wall. Access to the enclosed yard was not possible but to the first floor there are two sash windows as before with that to the right set slightly higher.

The roof is covered with natural slate and has plain barge boards. There is a corbelled brick eaves course. Walls are finished with squared rubble with in / out cream brick quoins. A large brick chimney stack in red brick with cream brick dressings sits on the mid point of the ridge The external walls are constructed on a small projecting plinth with a chamfered brick dressing. Cast iron RW goods.

Historical information

Built in 1900-01, this house was one of a series of similar dwellings constructed along the course of the Mourne-Belfast water conduit (by the Belfast & District Water Commissioners), for those employed in maintaining to the near by pumping station. It appears to have fulfilled this role until relatively recently but the building of a new, and presumably largely automated, pumping station appears to have robbed it of its original function.

References- Primary sources
1 PRONI VAL/12b/20/13c, p.82 Valuation book, 1902

Criteria for listing: architectural interest

A. Style
B. Proportion
D. Plan Form
I. Quality and survival of Interior
K. Group value

Criteria for listing: historic interest

X. Local Interest
Y. Social, Cultural or Economic Importance

Evaluation

Slightly picturesque, one and a half storey gabled house of c.1900-01 in squared rubble with cream brick dressings, one of a series of similar dwellings constructed along the course of the Mourne-Belfast water conduit (by the Belfast & District Water Commissioners), for those employed in maintaining to the near by pumping station.