Historic Building Details

HB Ref No:
HB16/30/020

Address :
The Satellite Café 13 Kilmorey Street Newry Co Down BT34 2DF

Townland:
Ballynacraig

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Survey 2:
Record Only

Date of Listing:

Date of De-listing:

Current Use:
Shop

Former Use
House

Conservation Area:
No

Industrial Archaeology:
No

Vernacular:
No

Thatched:
No

Monument:
No

Derelict:
No

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OS Map No:
266/7SW

IG Ref:
J0862 2595

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Owner Category

Exterior Description And Setting

Much altered two storey house. Gabled asbestos slate roof a,nd cement rendered walls. Ground floor comprises black tiled 1950s shop front with central doorway containing two stained glazed doors with transom light above. Large square window on either side of door. Above door in three-dimensional white italic letters ‘The Satellite’. Between the ‘The’ and ‘Satellite’ is a blue bulb housed in a circular black fitting. Two modern top hung windows on both first and second floors. Between these windows are two sets of vertical letters spelling ‘café’ and an internally lit projecting sign

Architects

Not Known

Historical Information

A building is shown here on the 1835 OS map. The 1835 valuation notes its occupant as Miss Thompson. It is described as being three storeys high in the 1863 valuation. Primary Sources: 1. OS 6" map, 3rd edition PRONI OS 9/15/1/3. 2. Valuation revision books, 1866-1930, PRONI VAL 1B.389, pp 42 3. Valuation revision books, 1866-1930, PRONI VAL 2B/3/69K, p.279.

Criteria for Listing

Architectural Interest

Not listed

Historic Interest

Not listed

Evaluation

Much altered two storey house. Not of special architectural or historic interest, but of some note asa shop surviving unaltered from the 1950s/60s.

General Comments

Date of Survey

15 August 1997