Historic Building Details

HB Ref No:
HB17/06/032 E

Address :
5 Mourne View Terrace Banbridge Co Down BT32 3HJ

Townland:
Tullyear

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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:
220/8

IG Ref:
J1227 4520

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Owner Category

Private

Exterior Description And Setting

A two-bay two-storey-with-attic Victorian end-terrace house; built c.1890 and located on an elevated site to the west side of Newry Road, south of Banbridge town centre. Rectangular plan with two-storey canted bay rising to a canted dormer and two-storey return to rear. Pitched natural slate roof with blue/black angled ridge tiles; hipped roof to attic dormer with leaded ridges and hips; rendered chimneystack with moulded caps and clay pots. Cast-iron ogee rainwater goods on dentilled eaves. Walling is painted smooth render with dentilled moulded string course above ground floor canted bay window. Windows are 1/1 timber sliding sash; round-arched to dormer and camber-arched to first floor with continuous sills to canted bay. The principal elevation faces east; two-storey canted bay window with dormer to left with window to each face on each floor (square-headed to ground floor, camber-arched to first floor and round-arched to dormer). To right is a window at first floor and at ground floor, a replacement panelled-and-glazed timber door with elliptical overlight surmounted by a hood mould with carved foliate stops. The south elevation is blank. The west (rear) elevation was not viewed. The north elevation is abutted by adjoining building; HB17/06/032D. Setting Set back from the street on an elevated site with flagstones to front garden enclosed by a smooth rendered wall and replacement tiles to front path. Roof: Natural slate Walling: Smooth render Windows: Timber RWG: Cast-iron

Architects

Not Known

Historical Information

The house is one of a terrace of five two-storey-with-attic dwellings completed in 1890 by local developer John Gordon and let out to members of Banbridge’s aspiring middle classes and petty bourgeoisie. According to a current resident, John Gordon was involved in the Armagh rail disaster of 12th June 1889 in which 80 people were killed and 260 injured and received a large amount of money because of it. It was this money which allowed him to complete the terrace, construction of which had begun in the late 1870s. Two of the houses were completed and inhabited by 1879 and a further three were added in 1890. The terrace was originally named ‘Mourne Terrace’ and from the 1920s ‘Mourne View’. (Freeman’s Journal; Belfast Newsletter) Number one first enters valuation records in 1890 at a valuation of £21 and is leased from John Gordon, the developer. The first resident to be noted is Thomas Crothers in 1890. He is followed by William Kennedy (1899) whose wife gave birth to a son at the house in August 1899 (Belfast Newsletter) and then Elizabeth Gill (1903). In 1901 Elizabeth Gill, widow from Newtownards, was in residence with her six adult children. The eldest son was a medical student and four of the remaining children were working in the boot and shoe trade. One of the daughters helped her mother to keep house. In 1911 Elizabeth Gill remained resident with two of her children, her son William working as a boot merchant. Also resident at the time was her married daughter and her two young grandchildren. William F Gill, boot merchant, is the occupier from 1922 and James Gordon from 1929, a likely descendant of the original developer John Gordon. The house remained in the Gordon family until at least 1957. A garden was added to the plot in 1934 and the valuation was raised by £2 as a consequence. In the early 1930s the house was revalued at £26. The occupier was James Gordon, who owned the house. On the ground floor was a lobby, a front reception with bay, kitchen and scullery. On the first floor, a large reception with bay at the front, one middle bedroom, at back one small bedroom and bathroom and a separate WC. On the top floor was a large attic bedroom, a full depth dormer window at the front and a skylight at the back and one small box room. There was an enclosed yard and offices, and a garden plot at the side. The valuer noted that the house was ‘well built and in very fair condition and modernised’. A plan and dimensions are given which show the house and return with a store at the back of the yard which it is noted ‘could be converted into garage’ and a glass house in the garden to the side. James Gordon appealed the valuation on the grounds that there was a small frontage to the house and ‘cramped bad rere...The garden has been spoiled by the electricity board erecting poles in it and running the wires across it’. The valuer commented on inspection in 1935 that it was a ‘good type terrace house’ and was the only house in the row to have a garden. The house continues in use as a domestic dwelling. References: Primary Sources 1. PRONI OS/6/3/27/1 First Edition OS Map 1833 2. PRONI OS/6/3/27/2 Second Edition OS map 1860 3. PRONI OS/6/3/27/3 Third Edition OS Map (c1900) 4. PRONI OS/6/3/27/4 Fourth Edition OS Map 1903-18 5. PRONI VAL/12/B/16/6A-H Annual Revisions (1864-1929) 6. PRONI VAL/3/C/4/4 First General Revaluation (1936-57) 7. PRONI VAL/3/D/4/2/B/1/D 8. Freeman’s Journal of 13th June 1889. 9. Belfast Newletter 26th October 1889 10. Belfast Newsletter 18th August 1899 Secondary Sources 1. Owner information

Criteria for Listing

Architectural Interest

Not listed

Historic Interest

Not listed

Evaluation

A two-bay two-storey-with-attic Victorian end-terrace house; built c.1890. Forming part of a terrace of five, all similarly well-preserved with much of the architectural detailing intact. This group is an example of a late-Victorian terrace, all with proportions and detailing typical of the style. Although unchanged and associated with the development of the town centre during the mid-nineteenth century, the terrace is of a relatively late date and not among the best examples of the type.

General Comments

Date of Survey

22 November 2011