Historic Buildings Record · Northern Ireland
Former goods Shed
Tullymurry, Newry, Mourne and Down, Northern Ireland
The record
- Designation
- Listed building, Grade B2
- Grade
- B2
- Type
- Store
- Date of listing
- 29 March 2006
- Date of construction
- 1880 - 1899
- Address
- Former goods Shed, at 150a Ballydugan Road, Tullymurry, Downpatrick, County Down, BT30 8HH
- Townland
- Tullymurry
- Council
- Newry, Mourne and Down
- Country
- Northern Ireland
- Coordinates
- 54.30047, -5.80050
- Date of survey
- 20 July 2000
- HB reference
- HB18/17/039
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Shown on 4 historical map sheets, the earliest the 1866 "Ireland." (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries).
The Department's description
Exterior description and setting
Relatively small, single storey former railway goods shed of c.1897 with large modern lean-to extension. The building is located next to the former Tullymurry station, on the S side of Ballydugan Road, c.4 miles SW of Downpatrick. The building now contains a small metalworking ‘shop’.
The shed is a simple gabled stone building with an arched opening to the S side of each gable. Each opening is dressed with cut stone. Each opening has a sliding door: that to the W is sheeted timber while that to the W is corrugated iron. Walls are in random mixed rubble with dressed quoins. There is a large door opening to the left side of the N wall. The S side is obscured by a large modern concrete block extension.
The roof is slated. RW goods are in cast iron.
Just to the E side is a small railway crane which appears to be complete.
Historical information
This station complex to which this shed belongs, was built in 1897, probably to designs by B&CDR engineer G.P. Culverwell. It replaced an earlier station of 1871 constructed a short distance to the north by the DD&NR, and was intended to cope with the increase in traffic to and from Ballykinlar army base. The goods sidings were extended for military traffic during WWI.
The station closed in 1950 and since then the building appears to have been used as a store and now as a small metalworking shop.
Secondary Sources:
1 Desmond Coakham, Belfast & County Down Railway (Midland publishing Ltd, 1998), p.54
Criteria for listing: architectural interest
A. Style
B. Proportion
H-. Alterations detracting from building
J. Setting
K. Group value
Criteria for listing: historic interest
X. Local Interest
V. Authorship
Y. Social, Cultural or Economic Importance
Evaluation
Relatively small, single storey former railway goods shed of 1897 with large modern lean-to extension. The shed was formerly part of the Tullymurry station grouping and is now used as a metalworking shop. This shed has group value with the adjacent former Station Master's house and signal box..
Nearby in the register
- Former Station master's house (and waiting room)Houseunder 1 mi
- Disused Signal BoxStoreunder 1 mi
- HighlandsHouseunder 1 mi
- The KennelsKennelsunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.