Former house next to 1 Mill Road

The Department's description

Exterior description and setting

Long, single storey, gabled vernacular dwelling of probable pre 1834 construction, now used as an outbuilding. The property is set on the S side of the Dublin Road, in the small village of Kilcoo, c.4 miles SW of Castlewellan.

The front façade faces N and is asymmetrical. To the right of centre is a timber sheeted door. To the left of this are two windows, now boarded, with another boarded window to the right.

The E gable is blank. To the W gable is a long single storey gabled outbuilding, in two sections. This has a small window opening to left, then a large vehicle entrance, then three doorways.

The rear façade of the whole row is blank.

The front façade of the whole row, and the E gable, are harled and white washed, the rear and W gable are unpainted. The roof of the former house section is covered in corrugated iron, the rest is in natural slate. Single rendered chimney stack to W side of ‘house’.

Historical information

A building is shown on this site on the OS maps of 1834 and 1859. A John Fitzpatrick is recorded as the occupant in the 1863 valuation, with property rated at £1-10-0. The house was abandoned in the 1940s (when the neighbouring dwelling was built) and is now used as a shed.

References- Primary sources
1 PRONI OS/1/3/42 OS maps 1st ed. 1834, Co Down sheet 42
2 PRONI Second (Griffith’s) valuation records, Kilcoo (1863) [in print]
3 PRONI OS/6/3/42 OS maps 1st rev. 1859, Co Down sheet 42

Criteria for listing: architectural interest

Not listed

Criteria for listing: historic interest

Not listed

Evaluation

Long, single storey, gabled vernacular dwelling of probable pre 1834 construction, now used as an outbuilding. Though the roof is now covered in corrugated iron, the original roughly hewn trusses have survived.