Historic Building Details

HB Ref No:
HB16/11/039

Address :
Technical School St Peters Street Warrenpoint Newry Co Down BT34 3NG

Townland:
Ringmackilroy

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Survey 2:
Record Only

Date of Listing:

Date of De-listing:

Current Use:
University/ College Building

Former Use
School

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:
J1427 1813

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Owner Category

Private

Exterior Description And Setting

Symmetrical two storey school house on corner of St Peter’s Street and Thomas Street. Hipped natural slate roof with flue pipe to each end of ridge. Boxed eaves support half round metal rainwater goods (partially missing). Walls are unpainted lined cement render with chamfered basecourse, and platband between ground and first floor. Stepped V-channelled stucco quoins. Above platband, “TECHNICAL SCHOOL” is painted on the wall of the front and right elevations. All openings have plain lugged stucco architraves and granite cills. Principal elevation (NE) to St Peter’s Street is symmetrical. A door to each end is now metal sheeted and has a granite threshold. Over each is an advanced stucco plaque, with faded lettering. Between the doors are three equally spaced 6/6 margin-paned sash windows (sheeted over to bottom section). Above, to first floor, are five equally spaced 6/3 sashes (un-margined) in line with the ground floor openings and diminished slightly both in height and width. Left (SE) elevation is painted rubble stone at ground floor, it has a plain modern door to ground floor left and a 1/1 sash window to right. Over ground floor is a corrugated metal canopy roof on metal trusses. First floor is rendered and blank. Rear (SW) elevation is blank and abutted to left by the left gable of no.20 Thomas Street. Exposed remaining section to right is cement-rendered and blank. No eaves or gutters on this side. Concrete block chimney rises from middle of wall head (evidently a rebuilding of the original). Right (NW) elevation to Thomas Street has two windows to each floor as those to main elevation.

Architects

Not Known

Historical Information

No building is shown on this site on the 1834 Valuation town map. A National School is shown on the 1861 OS town map; it has the same configuration of openings as the present building and is probably one and the same. It closed in 1912, but reopened as a technical school around 1915. It eventually became an annex to Newry Technical School. It has been vacant since closed in the 1980s Primary sources 1. Valuation town map, 1834 (PRONI, VAL/1D/3/2). 2. OS town map, 1861 (PRONI, OS/8/27/1/5). 3. Valuation Revision book (PRONI, VAL/12B/22/23F, p.158). Secondary sources 1. L. Bradley, ‘Warrenpoint, Origins and Developments’, 1998, p.65.

Criteria for Listing

Architectural Interest

Not listed

Historic Interest

Not listed

Evaluation

An attractive building of character prominently located on a corner site.

General Comments

Date of Survey

11 October 1999