Historic Building Details

HB Ref No:
HB16/09/018

Address :
5 Greenhill Road Rathfriland Newry Co Down BT34 5AS

Townland:
Drumgreenagh

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Survey 2:
Record Only

Date of Listing:

Date of De-listing:

Current Use:
House

Former Use
House

Conservation Area:
No

Industrial Archaeology:
No

Vernacular:
Yes

Thatched:
No

Monument:
No

Derelict:
Yes

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OS Map No:
253/6

IG Ref:
J1685 3249

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Owner Category

Private

Exterior Description And Setting

Single storey / three bay vernacular house aligned perpendicular to W side of Greenhill Road, with left gable to road.. Pitched natural slate roof with concrete skews and three line-rendered and coped chimney stacks - one to each gable and the third between middle and right bays. Advanced eaves course supports half round metal rainwater goods. Walls are lined rendered and painted. Principal elevation faces N. Central bay has an advanced porch and a single window to its right. Porch has a pitched natural slate roof with plain bargeboards. Both cheeks of porch are blank. Entrance door on its front gable has four raised and fielded panels, all bolection moulded with painted cast iron door furniture. Left bay has a single window and right bay has two windows. All windows are 2/2 (vertically divided) sliding sashes with horns and painted concrete cills. Gables of house are blank. The right one is abutted by a lower outbuilding with corrugated metal roof, now derelict and of no interest. Rear elevation is abutted to centre and left bays by a lean-to extension (containing bathroom and scullery). Right bay has a single three paned steel casement window. The extension is of rendered concrete blockwork and has a corrugated metal roof. To front is small garden enclosed by a rendered and coped wall with pair of wrought iron gates (20thC).

Architects

Not Known

Historical Information

Shown on 1833 OS 6” map. No change in valuations from 1860s to 1920s. Probably early 19thC in date. House was vacated in 1990. Primary sources: 1. OS 6" map, 1st edition (1833) Co Down sheet 41 (PRONI OS 6/3/41/1) 2. PRONI Second valuation c.1862, VAL 2B/3/60A, p.42. 3. PRONI Valuation revision books, 1866-1930, VAL 12B/22/10.

Criteria for Listing

Architectural Interest

Not listed

Historic Interest

Not listed

Evaluation

A typical small vernacular house but with no features of special interest.

General Comments

Date of Survey

06 July 1999