Historic Building Details

HB Ref No:
HB18/17/039

Address :
Former goods Shed at 150a Ballydugan Road Tullymurry Downpatrick County Down BT30 8HH

Townland:
Tullymurry

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Survey 2:
B2

Date of Listing:
29/03/2006 00:00:00

Date of De-listing:

Current Use:
Store

Former Use
Railway Station Structures

Conservation Area:
No

Industrial Archaeology:
Yes

Vernacular:
No

Thatched:
No

Monument:
No

Derelict:
No

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OS Map No:
241/1

IG Ref:
J4324 4130

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Owner Category

Commercial

Exterior Description And Setting

Relatively small, single storey former railway goods shed of c.1897 with large modern lean-to extension. The building is located next to the former Tullymurry station, on the S side of Ballydugan Road, c.4 miles SW of Downpatrick. The building now contains a small metalworking ‘shop’. The shed is a simple gabled stone building with an arched opening to the S side of each gable. Each opening is dressed with cut stone. Each opening has a sliding door: that to the W is sheeted timber while that to the W is corrugated iron. Walls are in random mixed rubble with dressed quoins. There is a large door opening to the left side of the N wall. The S side is obscured by a large modern concrete block extension. The roof is slated. RW goods are in cast iron. Just to the E side is a small railway crane which appears to be complete.

Architects

Culverwell, GP

Historical Information

This station complex to which this shed belongs, was built in 1897, probably to designs by B&CDR engineer G.P. Culverwell. It replaced an earlier station of 1871 constructed a short distance to the north by the DD&NR, and was intended to cope with the increase in traffic to and from Ballykinlar army base. The goods sidings were extended for military traffic during WWI. The station closed in 1950 and since then the building appears to have been used as a store and now as a small metalworking shop. Secondary Sources: 1 Desmond Coakham, Belfast & County Down Railway (Midland publishing Ltd, 1998), p.54

Criteria for Listing

Architectural Interest

A. Style B. Proportion H-. Alterations detracting from building J. Setting K. Group value

Historic Interest

X. Local Interest V. Authorship Y. Social, Cultural or Economic Importance

Evaluation

Relatively small, single storey former railway goods shed of 1897 with large modern lean-to extension. The shed was formerly part of the Tullymurry station grouping and is now used as a metalworking shop. This shed has group value with the adjacent former Station Master's house and signal box..

General Comments

Date of Survey

20 July 2000