Historic Building Details

HB Ref No:
HB16/13/010

Address :
53 Fathom Line Newry Co Armagh BT35 8QN

Townland:
Fathom Lower

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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:
No

Thatched:
No

Monument:
No

Derelict:
No

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OS Map No:
266/15

IG Ref:
J0986 2279

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Owner Category

Private

Exterior Description And Setting

A two storey, three bay house on W side of the Fathom Line, aligned roughly N-S. Pitched natural slate roof with brick chimney to left gable. Advanced smooth rendered and painted eaves course supports half-round plastic rainwater goods. Walls are cement dashed and painted with smooth rendered and painted basecourse. Two platbands – one below eaves level and the other at cill level of first floor; corners are also smooth rendered. Principal elevation faces E. All windows are modern top-hung timber casements with smooth rendered and painted architraves and cills. Each bay has a window to each floor, all equally aligned; that to G/F right bay is landscape. Set to the right of the middle window is a modern glazed timber door with matching sidelight to its right. Left and right gables are blank. The latter is abutted by a single-storey flat roof addition (of no interest). Rear elevation is abutted to left and middle bays by a two-storey extension with flat roof rising above the eaves level of main block. Extension is detailed as house. The exposed right bay of main block has a window to ground floor. Setting. To front is a small garden enclosed to road by a cement rendered wall, square-in-section gate piers support modern cast-iron gates. To rear, the garden rises steeply with the slope of the hill.

Architects

Not Known

Historical Information

A building is shown here on the 1835 OS map. It has no valuation so must have been a small one storey building. It is valued at £1 in the 1862 second Valuation. Its rateable value increases to £2.5s.0d in 1877 and there is no change thereafter. It was probably raised to its present two storey form at that date. Primary sources: 1. First edition OS 6" map, Co Armagh sheet 29, 1835 (PRONI - OS 6/2/29/1). 2. Second edition OS 6" map, Co Armagh sheet 29, 1861 (PRONI - OS 6/2/29/2). 3. Second Valuation book, 1862 (PRONI - VAL 2B/2/39A, p.19). 4. Valuation Revision book, 1877 (PRONI - VAL 12B/15/1D, p.96).

Criteria for Listing

Architectural Interest

Not listed

Historic Interest

Not listed

Evaluation

A much altered house retaining few features of interest.

General Comments

Date of Survey

09 May 2000