Historic Building Details

HB Ref No:
HB16/15/050

Address :
11 Molly Road Jonesborough Newry Co Armagh BT35 8HY

Townland:
Foughill Otra

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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:
276/14

IG Ref:
J0567 1695

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Owner Category

Private

Exterior Description And Setting

A two bay vernacular house aligned N-S on a bend on the SE side of Molly’s Road. Left bay is single-storey and right bay is two-storey. Pitched natural slate roof with tiled verges and a chimney to each end gable – that to right is red brick and that to left is rendered. No rainwater goods. Principal elevation faces W. All walls are lime-rendered rubble stone. Left bay has a window opening (now boarded over) with granite cill – all are detailed as this. Right bay has a windbreak porch to left end and a window to each floor to its right. Porch has a natural slate monopitched roof and t+g entrance door; left and right cheeks are blank. Left gable of left bay is abutted by a lower lean-to outbuilding; the exposed section is blank. Lean-to has corrugated metal roof and t+g sheeted door to W face. Rear elevation is cement rendered. Only one opening to this elevation - a metal-frame window to first floor of left bay. Right gable is abutted by a single-storey outbuilding; the exposed section is blank. Outbuilding is detailed as house with pitched corrugated metal roof and t+g door to W face. The right gable of this outbuilding is abutted by a smaller outbuilding, detailed as before but with natural slate roof. Setting: House is enclosed at road by a lime rendered random rubble wall with stone copings and modern square-in-section gate piers which support a pair of wrought-iron loop-headed gates. To front site is a small garden with outbuilding (of no interest).

Architects

Not Known

Historical Information

Although a building is shown at this spot on the 1835 map, its ground plan is not the same as the present one. The Valuation Revision book cites a “new house” in 1875. Primary sources: 1. OS 6” map, 1st edition, Co Armagh sheet 32 (PRONI OS 6/2/32/1). 2. Valuation Revision book, 1875 (PRONI VAL 12B/15/15A, p.95).

Criteria for Listing

Architectural Interest

Not listed

Historic Interest

Not listed

Evaluation

An attractive vernacular house with raised right bay and outbuildings to each gable reflecting the tradition of extending both upwards and longitudinally.

General Comments

Date of Survey

24 July 2000