201 Newcastle Road

The Department's description

Exterior description and setting

Small single storey house, much modernised c.1980, but possibly originally one of a long terrace of similar dwellings, built prior to 1834. The house is set on the W side of Newcastle Road at the S end of the small village of Seaforde.

The front façade faces E and is asymmetrical. To the right is a modern panelled and glazed door. To the left are two (roughly square) modern windows. Both the N and S gables are blank. To the right at the rear is a modern flat roofed extension. To the left of this (on rear façade of main house is a timber sheeted door with a modern window to the right.

The façade is finished in dry dash with smooth cement recessed base and surrounds to front openings. The gabled roof is covered fibre cement slates and has a slight overhang with plain barges. Single central concrete brick chimney stack. Shaped rw goods.

Historical information

A long terrace, taking in this site, is shown on the OS map of 1834. The valuation returns of c.1836 record that the whole terrace was ‘under value’, i.e. undoubtedly consisting of small single storey dwellings. These buildings were still standing when the second valuation was carried out in c.1860, but later (c.1900) annotations to the accompanying valuation town plan show that most of the group was demolished in the later 1800s with the exception of the property on this site. This could indicate that the house we see today may be a pre 1834 dwelling, a suggestion supported by the fact that the owner’s deeds date back to 1820, and mention former residents by the name of Steel- a John Steel is recorded as resident in c.1860.

The present owner’s father acquired the house in c.1900 and the present owner himself completely renovated the property in the 1980s.

References- Primary sources
1 PRONI D.366 Forde papers
2 PRONI OS/6/3/37/1 OS map, Down sh 37, 1834
3 Deeds in possession of the present owner
4 PRONI VAL/1B/387 1st valuation, Loughinisland, 1836
5 PRONI VAL/1D/3/19 Valuation plan of Seaforde, 1836-38
6 PRONI 2nd valuation, Loughinisland, c.1860 [in print]
7 PRONI VAL/2D/3/14 Valuation plan of Seaforde, c.1860
8 PRONI OS/8/152/1 OS plan of Seaforde, 1904
9 PRONI VAL/3G/95/1 Valuation plan of Seaforde, 1935-56

Criteria for listing: architectural interest

Not listed

Criteria for listing: historic interest

Not listed

Evaluation

Small single storey house, much modernised c.1980s, but possibly originally one of a long terrace of similar dwellings, built prior to 1834. Of little architectural interest.