Historic Building Details

HB Ref No:
HB18/13/050

Address :
66 Trassey Road Clonachullion (south-west of Bryansford) Newcastle Co Down BT33 0QB

Townland:
Clonachullion

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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:
No

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OS Map No:
254/16

IG Ref:
J3004 3015

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Owner Category

Private

Exterior Description And Setting

Two storey gabled vernacular farm house, probably of c.1840s, set to the S side of the Trassey Road, 6 miles W of Newcastle, 4 miles SW of Bryansford. The front façade faces N. To the left of centre is a small lean-to porch with a timber sheeted and glazed door. To the left of this is a small sash window. To the right of the doorway are two similar windows. To the first floor are four similar, but smaller windows, which are positioned in line with the ground floor openings. The E gable has a small single storey shed/outbuilding with a corrugated iron covered gabled roof, and (to front) three timber sheeted doors (one of which is a double door). The W gable is blank. To the rear of the house there is a single storey gabled extension, which has been renovated in recent years and sports a modern window to each face. To the main façade either side of the extension there is a single window with modern frame. The façade is finished in rough cast render and painted to front. The roof is covered in natural slate, with artificial slate to the extension. Rendered parapets to main roof. Two rendered chimney stacks (to gables). Cast iron and PVC rw goods.

Architects

Not Known

Historical Information

This house was built between 1834 and 1859. It is recorded in the second valuation of 1863 as the home of one James Martin and possessing the (below value) rateable value of £1. References- Primary sources 1 PRONI OS/6/3/49/3 OS maps 1st rev.1859, Co Down sheet 49 2 PRONI Second (Griffith’s) valuation records, Kilcoo (1863) [in print]

Criteria for Listing

Architectural Interest

Not listed

Historic Interest

Not listed

Evaluation

Relatively small, two storey vernacular farm house of c.1840s, with lean-to entrance porch and modern gabled extension to the rear.

General Comments

Date of Survey

19 January 2000