Glenmore Cottage

The Department's description

Exterior description and setting

Mildly picturesque one and a half storey gabled house with half dormers, which assumed its present appearance in c.1912 when the roof was raised. The house sits in a slight hollow to the NW side of Trassey Road, c.4.5 miles W of Newcastle.

The front façade faces roughly N and is asymmetrical. To the left side of this façade is a small single storey gabled porch with a four panelled timber front door and somewhat ‘heavy’ barge boards with finial. To the left is of this a small, 2 over 2, sash window with a decorative painted surround. To the right of the porch are a further two similar windows. To the first floor are four (almost) evenly spaced gabled half dormers with sash windows with painted surrounds, all as before. The dormer gables have somewhat ‘heavy’ barge boards and small wooden finials, all similar to the porch.

The far left merges with a gabled garage which has a decorative barge board and painted timber sheeted gable. The right side of this façade merges with a two storey out house which has a flight of stone steps leading up to a first floor timber sheeted door. The outhouse was raised in height such that the ridge line coincided with that to the main house. To the right of the dormer above the front door is a painted plaque inscribed with the name of the house ‘Glenmore Cottage’

The W gable has a central, small, first floor window opening without window frame. To the left of centre of the ground floor is a plain timber door.

The rear (S) elevation has a large window opening with modern steel frame to the left side of the first floor (to the outbuilding). To the right side is a small single storey lean-to extension with a frameless window opening to the S face and a plain sheeted door to the W. To the immediate left of the extension is a 2 over 2 sash window.

The main roof is finished in natural slate and has parapets to the gables. The house has three, evenly spaced, yellow brick chimney stacks with some decorative pots.

The front N wall is finished in lined render while the remaining walls are finished in rubble. Most of the galvanised rw goods are now missing. To the road are two circular stone gate posts. These are somewhat stylised versions of the traditional gate posts with cut stone and precisely moulded circular caps. The date ‘1903’ is inscribed on one of the gate posts.

Modern dwelling to immediate N.

Historical information

A house is shown on this site on the OS maps of 1834 and 1859. A Jane Edgar is recorded as the occupant in the valuation returns of 1863. In c.1912 the house and the attached outbuilding assumed their present appearance when both were both raised in height by the present owner’s grandfather. The building was last lived in the 1980s.

References- Primary sources
1 PRONI OS/1/3/49 OS maps 1st ed. 1834, Co Down sheet 49
2 PRONI Second (Griffith’s) valuation records, Kilcoo (1863) [in print]
3 PRONI OS/6/3/49 OS maps 1st rev. 1859, Co Down sheet 49

Secondary sources
1 Information supplied by present owner.

Criteria for listing: architectural interest

Not listed

Criteria for listing: historic interest

Not listed

Evaluation

Mildly picturesque one and a half storey gabled house with half dormers, which assumed its present appearance in c.1912 when the roof was raised.