Historic Building Details

HB Ref No:
HB16/13/055

Address :
23 Clontigora Road Newry Co. Armagh BT35 8RW

Townland:
Killeen

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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:
Yes

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OS Map No:
276/7

IG Ref:
J0852 2069

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Owner Category

Private

Exterior Description And Setting

Two storey two bay vernacular house aligned NW-SE of lane on Clontigora Road, with a number of outbuildings to its front site. Pitched natural slate roof with brick chimney to each gable. Half round metal rainwater goods. Walls are lime-rendered rubble stone. Evidence of rougher walls to lower section of wall indicates that the house probably started as single storey and was later raised. Principal elevation faces NE. To centre is a windbreak porch with pitched natural slate roof, t+g half door to front face. Its left and right cheeks are blank. To either side is a window with concrete cills. Aligned above to first floor are similarly detailed but taller windows. All are 2/2 sliding sash windows except that to ground floor left which is a 3/3. Left gable is blank. Rear elevation has an infilled window opening to ground floor of each bay, that to left has a concrete cill. Right gable is abutted by two single storey outbuildings, and has a fixed 2x2 window to first floor left. Outbuildings have pitched roofs, lime rendered walls and t+g sheeted doors their front face. That to left has a corrugated metal roof and that to right has a natural slate roof. Its right gable is abutted by a corrugated lean-to (of no interest). Rear elevations of both outbuildings are blank. To front site of are two small outbuildings (of no interest).

Architects

Not Known

Historical Information

The building shown on this plot in the 1835 OS map has no valuation suggesting a small one storey structure. Its valuation in 1862 was £1.10s.0d, but this is revised to £1 in 1903 and remains unchanged thereafter. One can only conclude that the house was raised to its present form sometime between 1835 and 1862. 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/2/37A, p.16). 4. Valuation Revision book, 1903 (PRONI - VAL 12B/15/17C, p.96).

Criteria for Listing

Architectural Interest

A. Style B. Proportion J. Setting

Historic Interest

X. Local Interest

Evaluation

A privately located vernacular farmhouse with a small group of outbuildings, providing a good sense of enclosure. A good example of the development of vernacular design by extension upwards.

General Comments

**Under consideration : awaing additional information** 30th March 2004

Date of Survey

12 June 2000