Historic Building Details

HB Ref No:
HB16/15/019

Address :
9 Old Bridge Road Forkhill Newry Co Armagh BT35 9RP

Townland:
Carrickastickan

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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:
281/4

IG Ref:
J0151 1573

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Owner Category

Private

Exterior Description And Setting

A much modernised single-storey four-bay house aligned NE-SW on the S side of the Old Bridge Road. Pitched artificial slate roof with two pebble-dashed chimneys with cement coping - one to party wall between bays 1 and 2 and the other between bay 2 and 3 (from left). Boxed timber eaves support half-round plastic rainwater goods. Walls are pebble-dashed with a smooth rendered and painted base course. All windows are modern top-hung timber casements set within narrow painted and rendered reveals. Cills are concrete. Principal elevation faces NW. The extreme right bay is wider than the others and each bay has a single window – that to bay 2 is set to the right of a projecting porch. Porch is detailed as house with pitched roof. Left cheek contains the entrance accessed by three steps with a modern metal handrail. Door is modern timber with a glazed side panel; front and right cheek each contains a narrow window. Left gable is blank. Rear elevation has a modern timber door accessed by two steps to left. To its right are two windows. Right gable has a window to centre.

Architects

Not Known

Historical Information

A building is shown at this location on the 1835 OS map. However, the site’s evolutionary development could not be determined from the Valuation Books as the plot number on the Valuation maps is unspecific. Primary sources: 1. OS 6” map, 1st edition, Co Armagh sheet 31 (PRONI OS 6/2/31/1).

Criteria for Listing

Architectural Interest

Not listed

Historic Interest

Not listed

Evaluation

A much altered single-storey four-bay dwelling retaining few features of interest.

General Comments

Date of Survey

24 July 2000