23 Ballymoney Road

The Department's description

Exterior description and setting

Part single, part one and a half storey, gabled, vernacular farm house of probable pre 1834 origin, now derelict. The property is set on the E side of the Ballymoney Road, less than a mile N of the small village of Kilcoo, c.4 miles SW of Castlewellan.

The front (W) façade is asymmetrical. To the N (left) is the single storey section. To the far right of this section is a small lean-to porch, now without door. To the left is a square (possibly enlarged) window, now boarded over. To the right of the porch (to the one and a half storey portion) is a similar window opening.

To the N gable there is a long, rubble-built, gabled outbuilding with two doorways and a window opening. To the S gable there is a single upper level window, with remains of sash frame. To the rear there appears to be a single window to the right, with remains of sash frame.

The façade is harled. The single storey portion has corrugated iron to its roof, with natural slate to that of the one and a half storey portion. Rendered chimney stack to each gable. No rw goods.

Historical information

A house is shown on this site on the OS maps of 1834 and 1859, which probably corresponds to that we see today. A John Doherty is listed as the occupant in the 1863 valuation returns, with the property possessing the (below) rateable value of £1.

References- Primary sources
1 PRONI OS/1/3/42 OS maps 1st ed. 1834, Co Down sheet 48
2 PRONI Second (Griffith’s) valuation records, Kilcoo (1863) [in print]
3 PRONI OS/6/3/42 OS maps 1st rev. 1859, Co Down sheet 42

Criteria for listing: architectural interest

Not listed

Criteria for listing: historic interest

Not listed

Evaluation

Part single, part one and a half storey, gabled, vernacular farm house of probable pre 1834 origin, now derelict.