Historic Building Details

HB Ref No:
HB16/12/011 A

Address :
Moygannon House Rostrevor Road Warrenpoint Newry Co Down BT34 3RU

Townland:
Moygannon

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Survey 2:
B+

Date of Listing:
12/01/1982 00:00:00

Date of De-listing:

Current Use:
House

Former Use
House

Conservation Area:
No

Industrial Archaeology:
No

Vernacular:
No

Thatched:
No

Monument:
No

Derelict:
No

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OS Map No:
277/10

IG Ref:
J1623 1851

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Owner Category

Private

Exterior Description And Setting

Single storey early 19thC house (with semi-basement) set in mature grounds on N side of Rostrevor Road. Hipped U shaped natural slate roof with half-round metal rainwater goods on advanced eaves. All chimneys are rendered with chimney pots. The E roof of the house has two chimneys (one to either side of its central bay). The W roof of the house has four chimneys (one on the N gable and one between each of the bays). Walls are cement dashed and painted with smooth base course to façade only. The front elevation faces S and ground floor only is exposed. It is three bays wide. The central one contains the main entrance. Two granite steps with moulded nosings lead to a pair of narrow four panelled doors. Each panel is horizontal and raised and fielded, the second and fourth ones from bottom being smaller than the others. Doors are flanked by full height 2/2 (horizontally divided) sliding sash sidelights with painted granite cills. Over doorway and sidelights is a shallow segmental fanlight with sunburst leaded glazing. Smooth render architrave. On wall to left and right are modern coach arches. The left and right bays of façade are almost completely abutted by a bowed bay, detailed as walls of main block and with similar eaves. Each has a pitched natural slate roof which curves with the wall below. Each has a tripartite front window consisting of a central 6/6 sash flanked by narrower 2/2 sashes. Smooth rendered architrave is segmental headed with plain masonry tympanum. Painted granite cill. The bowed bay has single 6/6 sash windows to each side, with similar cills and flat headed architraves. The left elevation is four bays wide and its basement is fully exposed. The left bay seems to be a later addition and has two 1/1 sashes to each floor. The second bay from left has two 6/3 sashes to basement (the left one is exposed box and the right one is larger and has a higher cill level). Above, to ground floor, is a tripartite window (6/6 sash flanked by 2/2 sashes). The third bay from left has a glazed timber door to left and a 6/3 sash to right in basement. At ground floor there is a pair of narrow glazed doors (each four paned) with a transom over each. It is served by a flight of concrete steps which rise from ground level and are enclosed by a plain metal balustrade. The right bay has a 6/3 sash at basement left and a 6/6 sash to ground floor centre. All basement windows have granite cills and security bars to front. The N gable of the W wing is abutted to centre and right by a slightly lower single bay extension. It has a pitched natural slate roof and walls as main block. Its W elevation is flush with the W elevation of the main block and has two small 1/1 sashes at ground floor level. Basement is blank. The basement gable is abutted by a higher ground level and its first floor has a modern uPVC window. Its E facing elevation is exposed at basement and has a t+g sheeted door. Ground floor is blank. The exposed left part of the N gable and the left part of this elevation are abutted by a plain narrow structure (open to basement) with walls as main block and flat roof. It possibly contains a water tank. The E facing wall of the W wing is exposed to right (N) end and has a 2/2 sash window to each floor. The central courtyard (see later) is separated from the rear by a link block with joins the two wings. It is aligned W-E and has a flat roof, and walls as main block. Its S face fronts the inner yard (see later) and its N face is abutted to right by a two storey lean-to and to left by a single-storey porch. The exposed part at ground floor left has a small modern timber window. The two-storey lean-to at right has a shallow roof and a 2/2 window to each floor of its N wall. Its left (E) cheek is blank and its right (W) cheek abuts the W wing. The porch has a pitched natural slate roof, plain bargeboard and a t+g sheeted door. Its W cheek abuts the two-storey lean-to and its left cheek abuts the garage (see below). The N end wall of the E wing is blank and abutted to basement by a lean-to garage block with natural slated lean-to roof. Roof overhangs and front wall has a large garage doors (two cars wide). Its E facing cheek is dashed as house and basement has a pair of 2x3 paned casement windows in a common opening. The E elevation of the house is three bays wide and basement is exposed. The left bay is blank but has marks in the render to suggest it once had a first floor window. It has a single window to the central and right bays. Both ground floor windows are 6/6 sashes. All basement windows are 6/3 sashes with painted granite cills and bars (not aligned with those above). The inner yard of the house has an open basement. Its S side (front block) has a 6/6 sash at ground floor and a glazed timber door to basement (transom over). The N side (link block) has three 1/1 sashes in a single opening and a pair of 4/2 sashes in a single opening at basement. The W and E sides are each abutted by lean-to extensions under cat-slides off the main roofs. The lean-to on W side of yard (W wing) does not abut basement wall at right and in that recess there is a pair of 4/4 sashes. The lean-to has a segmental headed archway at left with a tiny 1/1 window and a six panelled door (top and bottom ones horizontal). At ground floor there is a 6/3 sash at left side with a tiny 1/1 sash to its left. The lean-to on E side of the yard (E wing) does not abut basement wall at left and in that recess there is a pair of 4/2 sashes and a t+g sheeted door on the left cheek (into front block). The lean-to has a modern timber casement window at ground floor left, a t+g sheeted door at basement right, and a pair of 4/2 sashes at ground floor right. Setting The grounds are extensive and planted with mature trees and shrubs. Large lawned area to S of house enclosed to front by modern gates and rendered walling. To NE of house is farmyard and to NW of the house is the walled garden. Farmyard To NE of house is the former farmyard. It is surrounded by a high rubble stone wall, the E wall being the party wall with the yard to the adjacent house (HB16/12/012). Yard is accessed through a pair of large flat iron gates on its S elevation. To left on entry is a one and half storey outbuilding aligned N-S. Yard is partially enclosed to its E and W sides by similar outbuildings. All outbuilding walls are rendered random rubble, and doors are t+g sheeted. The N-S outbuilding has a pitched natural slate roof (half hipped to N end). Its N wall has a semi-elliptical doorway to ground floor (with a pair of t+g sheeted doors). Above in gable is a 6/3 sliding sash window (partially collapsed). Rear (S) gable is blank. Its right and left elevations were not inspected. The E outbuilding has a hipped roof (part natural slate and part artificial), with advanced eaves course supporting half-round cast-iron rainwater goods. Its end gables are covered in dense foliage. Its W facing wall has the openings. Most windows are gone but their frames suggest they were sliding sashes. Louvred vents to loft level. Its E wall ties into the E boundary wall (yard with adjacent house HB16/12/012). The W outbuilding has a lean-to natural slate roof (sloping into yard). The W elevation is the boundary wall and ground level embanks up to attic floor where there are three small window openings. The S gable has a doorway. The N gable and yard facing elevation were not inspected. Walled garden To NW of the house is a walled garden. Enclosed by high rubble stone walls and with a number of small lean-to outbuildings on its external N elevation. The lean-tos are in rubble stone with shallow masonry roofs.

Architects

Not Known

Historical Information

Shown as ‘Moygannon Cottage’, along with the farmyard and cruciform gate lodge, on the 1834 OS 6” map. Described in the 1835 First valuation book as being occupied by Joseph McCormack and measuring 60ft x 27ft6in x 12ft6in, with two wings, each 32ft6in x 20ft x 12ft6in, and with basements to all. It also noes that it was built 25 years ago by Mr Moore of Arno’s Vale. Described in the 1861 Valuation as the match of Clooneavin (HB 16/12/012) and “a very pretty cottage residence with splendid view of woods”. The plan form of this house and Cooleavin (HB16/12/012) are believed to be unique to this area. A very similar property built at around the same time is Templegowran (HB16/10/018) located to NE of Newry. Primary sources 1. OS 6” map, 1834 Co Down sheet 54 (PRONI: OS 6/3/54/1). 2. First Valuation book, 1835 (PRONI: VAL 1B/ 361, pp 142). 3. OS 6” maps, 1859 Co Down sheet 54 (PRONI: OS 6/3/54/2). 4. Second Valuation book, 1861 (PRONI: VAL 2B/3/61B, p.65). Secondary sources 1. E. Jope (ed), An Archaeological Survey of Co Down (Belfast 1966), p.388.

Criteria for Listing

Architectural Interest

A. Style B. Proportion C. Ornamentation D. Plan Form I. Quality and survival of Interior J. Setting

Historic Interest

X. Local Interest

Evaluation

This attractive single storey early 19thC house has a basement and is set within mature facing the sea grounds. House is almost identical to the adjacent Cooleavin (HB16/12/012). It is U planned and the interior retains much of its original character. Walled garden and farmyard are little altered. This group of structures provides a good example of an early 19thC micro-demesne.

General Comments

Date of Survey

30 November 1999