Historic Building Details

HB Ref No:
HB16/04/038

Address :
Boathouse on lane to 97 Cranfield Point Lane Cranfield Kilkeel Newry Co Down BT34 4LP

Townland:
Cranfield

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Survey 2:
Record Only

Date of Listing:

Date of De-listing:

Current Use:
Boat House

Former Use
Boat House

Conservation Area:
No

Industrial Archaeology:
Yes

Vernacular:
No

Thatched:
No

Monument:
No

Derelict:
Yes

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OS Map No:
284/15

IG Ref:
J2730 1011

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Owner Category

Private

Exterior Description And Setting

Ruinous remains of a structure between road and cliff. A retaining wall to road encloses a passage to the rear of the remaining walls: a low rear wall and two side walls. Walls are in split rubble, white washed internally and floor seems to have been cobbled with beach stones. In ruins are pieces of slate (from roof) and red brick (from dressings to openings?). The rest of the structure has been eroded away by wave action.

Architects

Not Known

Historical Information

Associated with former coastguard station near Cranfield House Hotel (HB16/04/041). This station was erected early 1820s and occupied until 1880s. Boathouse is cited 1836 Ordnance Survey Memoir. A local resident states that the building once had a front garden and slipway to the sea, and was occupied until the 1930s. Primary sources: 1. Ordnance Survey Memoir, Kilkeel Parish (Royal Irish Academy, Dublin). 2. OS 6" map, 1st edition (1834) Co Down sheet 57 (PRONI OS/6/3/57/1) Secondary sources: 1. D. Mayne ‘19th century coastguard stations in Mourne, in 12 Miles of Mourne, vol.7 (Kilkeel 1996), pp 25-6. 2. Mr Newell (local resident).

Criteria for Listing

Architectural Interest

Not listed

Historic Interest

Not listed

Evaluation

Although functionally associated with the nearby coastguard houses, too ruinous to contemplate other than recording.

General Comments

Date of Survey

21 October 1998