Historic Building Details

HB Ref No:
HB16/14/040

Address :
Moore Lodge 58 Belfast Road Newry Co Down BT34 1QQ

Townland:
Cloghanramer

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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:
252/15

IG Ref:
J0869 2893

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Owner Category

Private

Exterior Description And Setting

Two-storey / U-plan house (c1910) set in extensive mature grounds with gate lodge to Belfast Road. A tree-lined serpentine gravel driveway leads from the gate lodge up to the house proper. Principal elevation faces S. Left part of building is double piled with a gable return to centre of façade. Two rear returns aligned N-S, one at either end. Pitched Rosemary tiled roofs are aligned W-E and have decorative terracotta finials, overhanging eaves with exposed rafter tails and plain bargeboards. Moulded cast-iron rainwater goods with decorative hoppers. All chimneys are cement dashed and rendered with terracotta pots. Front pile has a chimney to centre of its ridge. There is a chimney on the ridge of the front return and one on each of the rear returns. E pitch of left rear return has two cast-iron skylights. Walls are cement pebble-dashed with an advanced cement rendered basecourse, moulded string course between ground and first floor and some small plain decorative panels to first floor of façade. Front (S) elevation of the front pile is two bays wide, with the end gable of the front return creating a third bay (at right). All windows on these three bays are side-hung casements with transom lights over. Those to ground floor are French windows and those to first floor are diminished in height. The left bay has a full height bow window to ground floor. It has six casement French windows with transoms and bowed dressed granite steps at ground (cill) level. Above first floor has a window of four casements. The central bay has a pair of glazed French doors with transoms, matching sidelights and two granite steps. The right bay (advances forward as the gable) has a bowed window at ground floor (as that to left bay). First floor has a window of three casements and transoms (standing taller than the other two first floor windows. The narrow left (W) cheek of the advancing front gable is blank. Its right (E) cheek is the end wall of the front pile. It has a French window of four casements to ground floor and a window of three casements to first floor. At this point the right (E) end of the rear pile is visible creating the fourth bay of the façade, and set back from the rest of the façade (described above). Its front (S) elevation has, at extreme left, two granite steps serving a pair of two-panelled painted timber storm doors with decorative brass furniture. Their bottom two panels are bolection moulded and top two panels are glazed with yellow obscured glass. At first floor centre there is a window of two casements. Originally at ground floor there was a curving single storey return linking the rear pile with the right gable of the front pile. See historical notes. Turning right (E) corner is the right (E) gable of the rear pile. It has two windows to ground floor each containing a pair of casements. There is a similar smaller window to centre of first floor. This gable continues to rear (N) as the left cheek of the left rear return (see later). The rear (N) elevation of the house is abutted to left (E) and right (W) ends by two storey returns. The left (E) return is two storeys high. Its left (E) cheek has four 1/1 sliding sashes to ground and first floors and is flush with the E gable of the rear pile (see above). Its end (N) gable has a 1/1 sliding sash window set to right of first floor and a circular timber window to attic level. Ground floor is abutted by flat roof addition with t+g sheeted door to centre. Its right (W) yard facing cheek has a small window with decorative grille over. Its E cheek is blank. The right (W) cheek of the left rear return cat-slides out slightly to left (N) end. Ground floor of this elevation is abutted to centre by two small lean-to returns under shallow roofs (both detailed as the rest of the rear returns and containing pantries). The exposed ground floor sections at extreme left and right ends each have a 1/1 sliding sash window. There are two 1/1 sashes at first floor. The exposed middle section of the rear (N) elevation is quite wide. Set to the right end between ground and first floor (breaking moulded plat band) is a large four-paned stairwell window. Below it is a tiny two-paned window serving a below stairs cupboard. Filling the remainder of this elevation are three 1/1 sliding sash windows to each floor. The right return at rear is much shorted than the left one. Its left (E) face has a part glazed four panelled door with two granite steps. Above to first floor is a 1/1 sliding sash window with concrete cill. The end (N) gable has two 1/1 sliding sashes to each floor. Ground floor left has bars over. Sashes to the right are narrower. The attic gable has a circular timber window. The right (W) cheek of the right rear return faces out onto the garden. It has a part-glazed four panelled door set to the right. To its left is a window of two casements, with a similar window aligned above to first floor. This elevation is flush with the W end gables of the front and rear piles of the main house. Each of the piles is gabled, the front one having a wrought iron ‘Cockerel’ weather vane attached. The front pile is abutted to ground floor by a lean-to (see later). First floor has a window of three casements. Gable apex has diamond detailing in render. Lean-to has mono-pitched roof and walls detailed as those house. Its main (W) face has a French window of four-casements. Its left (N) and right (S) cheeks are narrow and blank. Rear pile gable has a French window of four casements to ground floor and a window of three casements to first floor. Setting Large mature front garden with lawns to immediate front (S) and left (W) of house. To rear (N) of house, is a domestic yard with outbuilding enclosing its rear (N) side and garage enclosing its left (W) side. The SE corner of the yard has two square-in-section piers with concrete pyramidal coping serving as an entrance from the driveway, which runs down the left side of the house. On W side of yard to N of garage, is a small wrought iron pedestrian gate into the garden. Outbuilding has a hipped roof (detailed as the house) others with domed cowl to centre of ridge. Walls are dashed as house and its N, W and E elevations are blank. Its S (yard facing) elevation has t+g sheeted doors and timber casement windows. Garage is detailed as the outbuilding and its pitched roof has a chimney on its S end. Its S gable is abutted by a timber conservatory. Its W elevation fronts the garden and has four pairs of casement windows with a common transom over. Its N gable is blank. Its E (yard facing) elevation has a window (as those to W) at left, a glazed timber door to its right and filling rest of elevation is a t+g sheeted and glazed sliding garage door. Garden has a cast iron water pump to immediate W of the garage. Much altered one and a half storey/ two bay gate lodge to Belfast Road. Its pitched artificial slate roof is aligned N-S. It has dashed walls. Its front elevation faces W and has a gabled return to left and a veranda under a cat-slide roof at right. Fixed modern windows have top hung transoms.

Architects

Reside, S Wilson

Historical Information

John Hunter Moore of North Lodge, Downshire Road, Newry (HB16/26/024A) was appointed agent to the Kilmorey Estate in 1908. Mr Hunter Moore was son of Jack Moore of Moore Lodge, Kilkeel (HB16/04/017), this family having long been employed as estate managers by the Kilmoreys of Mourne Park, Kilkeel. Mr Reside, a well-known Newry architect was commissioned to draw up plans for the house and it was erected about 1915; it is first cited in the Valuation revision book of this date. He was evidently a man of some prosperity as a 'motor house' is also cited in the schedule. It is shown as Moore Lodge on the 1919 and subsequent OS 6" On the death of Mr and Mrs Hunter Moore, the house reverted to the Kilmoreys. An early photograph in possession of Newry Museum shows a single storey quadrant curved bay at right end of façade. It is detailed as the main house with narrow tripartite casement windows. There is no visible sign of a door but it may be on the unseen cheek. However, if there was no front door here, the French windows on the central may have been the front door as they lead into the lounge with stairwell to rear. Primary sources: 1. Valuation revision book, 1915 (PRONI VAL 12B/22/15B, p.71). 2. OS 6" map, 1919, Co Down sheet 46 (PRONI OS 6/3/46/4). 3. Information from owner in February 2000. 4. Photograph in possession of Newry Museum. Secondary sources: 1. J. A. K. Dean, ‘Gate Lodges of Ulster’ UAHS 1994, p.84. 2. F. Crossley, ‘History of Newry Masonic Lodge No.77), Newry c1910.

Criteria for Listing

Architectural Interest

Not listed

Historic Interest

Not listed

Evaluation

Of Arts & Crafts design externally, and with an interior in the neo-Georgian revival style popular in the Edwardian period.

General Comments

Date of Survey

24 February 2000