Historic Building Details

HB Ref No:
HB16/12/022 A

Address :
2 Seaview Warrenpoint Newry Co Down BT34 3NH

Townland:
Ringmackilroy

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Survey 2:
Record Only

Date of Listing:

Date of De-listing:

Current Use:
House - Terrace

Former Use
House - Terrace

Conservation Area:
No

Industrial Archaeology:
No

Vernacular:
No

Thatched:
No

Monument:
No

Derelict:
No

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OS Map No:
277/9 SE

IG Ref:
J1452 1797

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Owner Category

Private

Exterior Description And Setting

House at right end of a terrace of four similar three storey/ two bay late 19thC houses facing the sea on NW side of street. Pitched natural slate roof with rendered chimney to right end. Modern skylight to front pitch. Moulded advanced eaves course carries ogee metal gutters. Front wall is rendered and painted, with band rustication to ground floor and lined to upper floor. Chamfered basecourse and continuous moulded cill courses to the upper floors. Left bay is narrower than the right one and contains the main entrance in a semi-elliptical headed opening with lined voussoirs. Two-panelled door has glazed sidelights (with aprons). Consoles carry a timber entablature under a fanlight with roundel inset. Directly above is a 1/1 top-hung window to each upper floor. That to first floor has a run moulded architrave, and that to second floor is slightly diminished in height. The right bay has a canted bay window rising full height, with canted natural slate roof tied into main roof and sharing common eaves. Each face of the bay window has a modern 1/1 timber window. Those to first floor have moulded architraves and those to second floor are slightly diminished in height. A rendered dwarf wall and hedge enclose front garden. Modern gate. Left gable fronts onto the town park and wet dashed and blank. Right gable forms party wall with 3 Seaview (HB16/12/022B). Rear elevation not inspected.

Architects

Not Known

Historical Information

First appears in the Valuation Revision book entry for 1880. Occupied from 1881 onwards. Primary sources 1. Valuation revision book (PRONI – VAL 12B/22/23B, p.184).

Criteria for Listing

Architectural Interest

Not listed

Historic Interest

Not listed

Evaluation

Although this end of terrace house has been altered, its height and scale is in keeping with the rest of the buildings along the sea front.

General Comments

Date of Survey

01 November 1999