41 Slievenaman Road

The Department's description

Exterior description and setting

Single storey vernacular farm house of probable mid 19th century origin. The building is set on the N side of the Slievenaman Road, 5 miles W of Newcastle.

The front façade faces roughly S and is asymmetrical. To the left of centre of this facade is a small lean-to porch. This has a doorway (with timber sheeted door) to front. To the left of the porch is a narrow window with modern frame. To the right is a similar window.

Both gables are blank. To the rear are two boarded up windows to centre and right.

The façade is largely harled. The gabled roof is covered in natural slate to front, corrugated asbestos to rear. Harled parapets. There is a rendered chimney stack to each gable. PVC rw goods to porch.

Historical information

There is a building shown on this site on the on the OS map of 1859 which in the second valuation of 1863 was in occupied by a John Depot, and possessed the paltry rateable value of 10 shillings. It is probable that this is the same dwelling we see today.

References- Primary sources
1 PRONI OS/1/3/48 OS maps 1st ed. 1834, Co Down sheet 48
2 PRONI Second (Griffith’s) valuation records, Kilcoo (1863) [in print]
3 PRONI OS/6/3/48 OS maps 1st rev. 1859, Co Down sheet 48

Criteria for listing: architectural interest

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Criteria for listing: historic interest

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Evaluation

Single storey vernacular farm house, of probable mid 19th century origin, and now sporting modern window frames.