Historic Building Details

HB Ref No:
HB18/14/017

Address :
12-22 Bryansford Road Newcastle Ballaghbeg Co Down BT33 0AX

Townland:
Ballaghbeg

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Survey 2:
Record Only

Date of Listing:

Date of De-listing:

Current Use:
House - Terrace

Former Use
House - Terrace

Conservation Area:
No

Industrial Archaeology:
No

Vernacular:
No

Thatched:
No

Monument:
No

Derelict:
No

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OS Map No:
255/11 SW

IG Ref:
J3746 3073

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Owner Category

Private Private Private Private Private Private

Exterior Description And Setting

Six small one and a half storey gabled houses of perhaps c.1860, arranged in two terraced blocks on the W side of the S end of the Bryansford Road, just S of Newcastle town centre. No.12 is a semidetached house at the S end of the grouping. Its front, roughly E facing façade has a central gabled porch with modern door. To the left of the porch is a window with modern frame, with a similar window to the right of the porch. The S gable is blank. There was no access to the rear and the rear façade is obscured by a high wall. The façade is finished in lined render and unpainted. The roof is covered in natural slate with two gabled dormers to front and one to the rear. Single rendered chimney stack shared with no.14). Mixture of PVC and cast iron rw goods. No.14’s front façade is as no.12 but with a stable door to porch, small roundel windows to porch sides and shaped barges to all front gables. The N gable is blank. To the rear left is a window and to the right, a single storey lean-to with stable door and window. The front façade is in lined render and painted, the gable likewise but unpainted and the rear in plain render. The roof is as no.12 but with a further flat roofed dormer to the rear and with shaped barges to rear gabled dormer. Two modern rooflights to rear also. Rendered chimney stack to N gable. No.16 is to the S end of the upper block of four houses. It is entered on the S gable, where, to the right on the ground floor there is a modern flat roofed porch. To the left on the first floor of this gable is a modern window. This gable merges with the S face of a large two storey flat roofed extension which has a modern window and door. To the W face of this extension there are modern windows to the ground and first floors. The short E façade has a single modern window. The façade is finished in rough cast and painted. The main roof is covered in natural slate with a gabled dormer with modern window to E side. Rendered chimney stack to S gable. PVC rw goods. No.18 has a modern, timber gabled porch to front. To the left of this is a window with modern frame (this opening looks to have been enlarged). The rear is obscured by a large, two storey modern extension. The front façade is finished in rough cast and painted. The extension is in unpainted plain render. The main roof is covered in natural slate and has two timber gabled dormers with modern windows to front. PVC rw goods. Tall rendered chimney stack to N, shared with no.20. No.20 has a gabled porch to left on front façade, with modern door. This porch may have been rebuilt. To the right of this is a modern window. To the centre of the rear façade there is a small, badly dilapidated gabled extension. To the left of this there appears to be a doorway. To the upper floor there is a small 2 over 2 sash window with vertical glazing bars. The front façade is finished in plain render and unpainted, the rear in painted rough cast. The roof is covered in natural slate with a single gabled dormer to front with an 8 over 4 sash window. PVC and cast iron rw goods. The front façade of no.22 has a timber gabled porch to right with open doorway to front. Within the porch is the front entrance with a stable door. To the right of the porch is a small modern window. The N gable has a small modern window to the upper level right. This gable merges with the N face of a large, two storey modern flat roofed extension, which has a similar upper level window. The S face of the extension has modern windows and doors, with a recently inserted pair of French doors to the main rear façade. The façade is finished in unpainted render throughout, lined at front and N, but plain to the rear. The main roof is covered in natural slate, with two gabled dormers with modern window frames to front and a modern rooflight to rear. Single rendered chimney stack to N. PVC rw goods. Row of brick built WCs to rear of nos.16-22. Just to the N of this grouping is a small single storey gabled school house, now used as a hall, built 1904 to replace an old pre 1834 school house.

Architects

Not Known

Historical Information

This end of the Bryansford Road is shown vacant on the OS map of 1834. Buildings are shown on the sites of nos.12-18 on the revised OS map of 1859, which probably correspond to the houses we see today. The valuation records of 1863 state that the present nos.12 and 14 belonged to an Ellen Glass and Robert Grey respectively, but that the present nos.16 and 18 were one house, belonging to a Denis Maginn. This might explain the reason why the entrance to no.16 is now awkwardly placed on the gable, i.e. it is not original. Nos.20 and 22 were added some time after 1859, perhaps during the 1860s. Just to the north of this terrace there is a small school house, now a hall, dating from 1904. This replaced an earlier school house, which had stood here since the 1830s. References- Primary sources 1 PRONI OS/6/3/49/2 OS map, first rev., Co. Down 49. 2 PRONI Second (‘Griffith’s) valuation, Kilcoo, 1863. 3 PRONI VAL/12E/111/1 Valuation town plan of Newcastle, 1864-1906. 4 PRONI and Linen Hall Library ‘Belfast and Province of Ulster Directory’ Vols.1-21, 1852-1900, (Belfast, Henderson [1852-65], Belfast News-Letter [1865- ]). 5 George Henry Bassett ‘County Down Guide and Directory’ (Dublin 1886), pp.161-165. 6 PRONI OS/8/136/1-4 OS plans of Newcastle, 1901. Secondary sources 1 P.J. Rankin, 'Historic Buildings, Groups of Buildings, Areas of Architectural Importance in the Mourne Area of South Down', (Belfast UAHS 1975), p.78. 2 Grenfell Morton ‘Victorian and Edwardian Newcastle’ (Belfast 1988).

Criteria for Listing

Architectural Interest

Not listed

Historic Interest

Not listed

Evaluation

Six small one and a half storey gabled houses of perhaps c.1850s-1860s, with gabled porches and dormers to front. All somewhat altered over the years, with most now having large modern extensions and replacement windows. Nos.16 and 18 may have been built as a single property.

General Comments

Date of Survey

25 November 1999