Historic Building Details

HB Ref No:
HB16/28/063

Address :
5 Monaghan Street Newry Co Down BT34 6BB

Townland:
Lisdrumgullion

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Survey 2:
Record Only

Date of Listing:

Date of De-listing:

Current Use:
Shop

Former Use
Shop

Conservation Area:
Yes

Industrial Archaeology:
No

Vernacular:
No

Thatched:
No

Monument:
No

Derelict:
No

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OS Map No:
266/7 NW

IG Ref:
J0837 2659

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Owner Category

Commercial Private

Exterior Description And Setting

A two-storey/ three-bay red brick building fronting the north side of Monaghan Street. The roof is flat, with brick chimneys at middle and left. The front elevation is of red brick throughout (English garden wall bond) over a projecting rendered and painted base course and has a brick parapet at eaves level. The façade is divided into two panels by three shallow brick piers with stop-end chamfers - one at each end, and one to left of the coach arch at right. There is a moulded terracotta string course between ground and first floors, and a second, narrower, one between the first floor and roof parapet. The latter is coped with concrete and makes a ramped step over the piers; the parapet is also raised between the pairs of first floor windows, thus hiding the middle chimney from view. At extreme left is a door opening flanked by the corner pier at left, and a pilaster rising to first floor level at right. The door is modern timber panelled, above which is a segmental headed transom light set into a rectangular opening. At extreme right is a coach arch flanked by the two wall piers noted above and containing a two-leaf modern corrugated metal door. Its semi-elliptical brick head is painted 'Central Laundry'. Between the door at left and arch at right are two shop fronts. Shopfront to left has three plate-glass windows (with fixed metal grilles) and door at right (with transom over), all with segmental headed timber frames set into rectangular openings. Painted fascia over reads "Felix McNally/ MPSNI / Dispensing Chemist". To right is a timber shop front, now boarded up and over which is a painted wooden fascia reading "Central Laundry / Ltd." At first floor are two pairs of 1/1 top hung timber windows (one pair above each shop), and a fifth identical window above coach arch. All have terracotta acanthus keyblocks, chamfered brick jambs and granite cills. Between the two pairs of windows is a projecting box sign and cast-iron down pipe from rainwater valley behind parapet. This pipe turns along top of chemist's sign and continues to ground level at right side of right pilaster to leftmost door. Right gable is abutted by adjoining building. There is an entrance into the laundry from a doorway on the left side wall of the coach arch. Left gable is partially abutted by adjoining building. Exposed section is painted brick to ground floor and reads Pharmacy / McNally’s. The rear elevation is cement rendered. The rainwater gutters are plastic on this side. The coach arch at left has a horizontal head on this facade and is supported across the middle of the passage by a steel girder. A wall runs from the coachway to form a yard at right. Immediately to right of coach arch, inside the yard, is a door with transom light over (both now infilled) leading from the laundry. This leads into a passage (with lean-to slate roof) along the inside face of the yard wall, and connects with the actual laundry at the rear of the property (see below). The rear of the chemist's shop is abutted by a one-storey lean-to with central door and small lights either side. This partially obscures a window at the rear of the chemists. The first floor has three 1/1 sliding sash windows; two are above the yard, and the third above the coach arch. All the windows have granite cills and are fitted with metal grilles. The return has a flat roof with brick chimney, and cement rendered walls. There is a door in middle of ground floor yard elevation and a 1/1 sliding sash window either side. There are two identical windows to first floor. Again, all these openings have metal grilles. The actual laundry comprises a large one-storey shed with a sarked corrugated asbestos cement gabled roof over steel trusses, cement-rendered rubble granite walls, and concrete floor. There are louvred ventilators in both gables. This building is now in a very poor state of repair and devoid of machinery except for an extractor fan.

Architects

Not Known

Historical Information

Although there was a building on this site in the 19th century, the present structure first appears in the 1917 Valuation revision book (indicated by an increase in valuation from £7 to £48). The premises are described at that time as ‘house, shop, workshop and yard’, and then belonged to James McNally. It was let for a variety of purposes during the 1920s, eg. tailor and outfitters shop (J.A. Hamilton, 1918), grocery shop (T. Byrne, 1924). This suggests that it was built for general commercial use, rather than a specific function. Primary Sources: 1. Valuation revision books, 1866-1930, PRONI - VAL 12B/22/18C, p.142. 2. Valuation revision books, 1866-1930, PRONI - VAL 12B/22/18D, p.144. Secondary Sources: 1. Ulster Provincial Towns’ directories.

Criteria for Listing

Architectural Interest

Not listed

Historic Interest

Not listed

Evaluation

A two-storey/ three-bay red brick building of some architectural interest in terms of its style, utilitarian proportions and materials of construction and also as a purpose built commercial unit.

General Comments

Recorded as HB16/29/012 in first survey

Date of Survey

27 March 2000