Historic Building Details

HB Ref No:
HB16/26/020 B

Address :
7 Downshire Place Newry Co Down BT34 1DZ

Townland:
Carneyhough

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Survey 2:
B+

Date of Listing:
26/02/1976 00:00:00

Date of De-listing:

Current Use:
Office - 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:
266/7 NW

IG Ref:
J0887 2704

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Owner Category

Charity

Exterior Description And Setting

Second building from right in a symmetrical terrace of four two-storey (+ semi-basement + attic)/ three-bay houses on the east side of Downshire Road. Four openings wide at front. Pitched artificial slate roof with cast iron skylights to rear pitch. Cement rendered chimneys with projecting caps to each gable (each shared with adjacent properties). Rainwater goods are semicircular plastic. Wall to facade is painted and lined rendered; projecting eaves course, also rendered. Two granite steps lead to granite paved platform in front of main entrance in third opening from left on ground floor. Original palmette headed cast iron railings flank sides of platform. To right of doorway inset into granite paving is iron bootscraper. Door is painted timber with beaded muntin, four bolection-moulded panels, and brass furniture. Door frames are reeded timber. Door is flanked by two three-quarter attached granite Tuscan columns supporting a moulded granite entablature (with modern light attached to underside) and with leaded Greek Revival transom light over. The opening has one-piece moulded granite jambs, with scrolled consoles at top supporting a moulded granite cornice. At left of left jamb is a modern intercom box. To left of entrance are two windows and to right a single window, all 6/6 top-hung plastic windows. All windows have painted granite cills throughout. To basement, at left, in line with ground floor windows are two 3/3 sliding sashes without horns and metal security grilles over. Window to right bay has been rendered over and its cill removed. Directly under entrance platform is a porch with divides the passage across front of basement into two sections, and which is accessed by concrete steps from foot of main entrance steps. Door on right cheek of porch is infilled. At first floor are four equally spaced windows, identical to those on ground floor, but diminished in height. Left and right gables form party walls with adjacent properties (nos 5 and 9). The basement to rear elevation is at ground level due to the sloping topography of the site. Rear wall is painted and wet dashed with projecting eaves course. At right of centre at basement level is a pair of modern timber doors with boxed roller shutter over. A large open lean-to shelter abuts the whole right half of basement and has profiled a plastic roof. To ground floor left and right bays are single 3/3 plastic windows. Between ground and first floor, in centre bay, is a tall 6/6 plastic window. At first floor left and right are single 6/6 windows (sliding sash and top hung respectively). To right of the left window is a small timber six-pane casement window serving small toilet. All rear windows have metal security grilles except ground floor left. Rear garden is enclosed to sides by granite rubble walls and to rear by a pair of large sheet metal doors to lane leading to Church Avenue. Setting Garden to front is enclosed by chamfered granite base wall with the remains of wrought iron railings. A cement path from street leads to front door and to either side are small lawns and mature shrubs.

Architects

Not Known

Historical Information

Shown in present form in 1834 OS map. Owned by Robert Nicholson in 1838 Valuation. Probably erected in 1820s or early 1830s as part of development of Downshire Road by Marquis of Downshire. Seemingly conceived as part of a longer terrace never completed. Primary Sources: 1. PRONI OS 6/3/46/1 OS 6" map, 1st edition (1834) Co Down sheet 46 2. Valuation revision books, 1866-1930, PRONI VAL 1B/ 389, p.55 3. Valuation revision books, 1866-1930, PRONI VAL 1D/3/8A. 4. Archaeological Survey Co. Down, p.420, 428 (entry 417.26).:

Criteria for Listing

Architectural Interest

A. Style B. Proportion C. Ornamentation D. Plan Form H-. Alterations detracting from building K. Group value

Historic Interest

X. Local Interest

Evaluation

Second building from right in a symmetrical terrace of four two-storey. A fine example of an earlier 19th century Georgian townhouse and an early example of town planning by an improving landlord. Its appearance is enhanced by its restrained decoration (particularly the doorcase) and grouping within an intact symmetrical terrace.

General Comments

Date of Survey

23 March 1998