Historic Building Details

HB Ref No:
HB16/28/084 B

Address :
6 Sandys Street Newry Co Down BT34 1EN

Townland:
Carneyhough

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Survey 2:
Record Only

Date of Listing:

Date of De-listing:

Current Use:
House

Former Use
House

Conservation Area:
Yes

Industrial Archaeology:
No

Vernacular:
No

Thatched:

Monument:
No

Derelict:
Partially

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OS Map No:
266/7 NW

IG Ref:
J0885 2683

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Owner Category

Private

Exterior Description And Setting

Left one of a pair of three-storey/ two-bay houses fronting the south side of Sandys Street. These houses are the mirror image of each other. The building is skewed in plan, and no wall is parallel to another. Pitched artificial slate roof with rendered chimney on left gable. Half-round metal gutters with downpipe to left on facade. Walls to street are painted, lined and rendered, with raised eaves course. At right is main entrance, with single granite step up from street. To its left is a single storey canted bay with cornice around parapeted flat roof; downpipe to left. This cornice continues as a two-step platband between ground floor and first floor. Bay contains a window opening to each face. All ground floor openings are covered with plywood sheeting. First floor windows have been boarded up. Second floor has two 2/2 sliding sash windows. These are in line with one another but offset to left of ground floor openings. Top floor windows diminish in height. All cills are painted granite. House separated from footpath by wall which comprises a chamfered granite plinth surmounted by a rendered brick wall which rises at sides of entrance steps. Left gable is painted, lined and rendered. Right gable forms party wall with adjoining house (HB16/28/084A). On the rear elevation, a two storey return abuts at left. To its right, there is a single window to each back room of the main block; that to second floor right is a 2/2 sliding sash. The return has a pitched artificial slate roof. On its right cheek is a window and door to ground floor, and two windows above. All the openings to this side of the house are now blocked up.

Architects

Not Known

Historical Information

First appears in Valuation Revision book entry of 1879, the lessor being John Nesbitt, whose name is associated with a number of houses built hereabouts at this time (HB 16/28/083, /084A, /100A,B). Primary Sources: 1.Valuation revision books, 1866-1930, PRONI – VAL 12B/22/14C, p.133 (house no.4a); 2.Valuation revision books, 1866-1930, PRONI - VAL 12E/125/1/13.

Criteria for Listing

Architectural Interest

Not listed

Historic Interest

Not listed

Evaluation

Left one of a pair of three-storey/ two-bay houses. One of a number of mid-Victorian houses of broadly similar style along this street.

General Comments

Date of Survey

28 March 2000