Historic Building Details

HB Ref No:
HB16/12/004 A

Address :
2 Osborne Promenade Warrenpoint Newry Co Down BT34 3NQ

Townland:
Ringmackilroy

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Survey 2:
Record Only

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

Date of De-listing:
08/02/2008 00:00:00

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:
277/9 SE

IG Ref:
J1440 1792

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Owner Category

Private

Exterior Description And Setting

Two storey / single bay house set in a terrace and facing the sea on Osborne Promenade. Pitched artificial slate roof with unpainted rendered chimney to left end of ridge. Front pitch of roof has two wall-head dormers with hipped roof and modern casement windows. Ogee rainwater goods. Rear pitch has a single dormer, as those to façade. Front elevation faces SW and is lined rendered and painted. Right bay has three granite steps up to an early 20thC (arts and crafts) front door with eye-brow glazed top panel with three additional upper lights, all stained glass. It is set within a finely dressed semi-elliptical headed granite doorcase with moulded arris. The doorway is framed by finely dressed Ionic columns supporting a moulded entablature. Over is a leaded peacock tail fanlight. On ground floor left bay there is a modern window (in an enlarged opening) containing a fixed light with three transoms over. There are three first floor windows - all are fixed lights with pairs of top-hung transoms over. Painted granite cills. Small area to front of house is enclosed by a cement rendered dwarf wall with granite coping. Set into render at left and right of doorcase are cast-iron posts, all that remain of the original railings. The left gable is abutted by No.3 Osborne Promenade (HB16/12/004B). The right gable is abutted by No.1 Osborne Promenade (HB16/12/004C). Rear elevation is rendered and unpainted. It is abutted to left by a two storey return and at right by a single storey extension. Remaining wall at ground floor has a large modern picture window with granite cill. Above at first floor centre is an original window opening containing a modern fixed window. At first floor right (over extension) there is a smaller window opening with concrete cill and modern casement window. The two storey return is narrow and short. Its pitched natural slate roof ties into the main roof. Its left ckeek is blank and its end gable is abutted by an outbuilding (see later). Its right cheek has a modern door and small modern window. At first floor is a large modern window lighting the stairwell and there is a small window at second floor level. The extension is all modern. It has a mono-pitched artificial slate roof and rendered walls. Its right wall abuts the yard wall, its end gable has a modern window and its left cheek (yard facing) has a large modern window and a modern door. Outbuilding is slightly smaller than the return, which it abuts. Its is shared with the building next-door (HB16/12/004C). Its walls are slate hung and painted. Its end gable is narrow and blank. Its left wall was not inspected. Its right wall (yard facing) has a t+g sheeted door at ground floor. Small garden to rear has a two storey outbuilding (of no interest) enclosing its rear boundary.

Architects

Not Known

Historical Information

Shown on the 1834 OS 6” map, along with the rest of this terrace. Noted in the 1835 First Valuation as being occupied by Mrs Osborne (this family also occupies the flanking houses at this time). Identical measurements to No.1 – 25ft x 36ft6in x 25ft. An old postcard of Osborne Promenade shows the façade of these houses to have had tripartite Georgian paned sash windows to ground floor and 6/6 sashes to first floor. Locals believe that this house and the one next door were a single dwelling at one time. The house has been occupied by the present (in 1999) occupant since 1961. 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/367). 3. Postcard entitled ‘Osborne Terrace Warrenpoint’ (c1920), private ownership.

Criteria for Listing

Architectural Interest

Not listed

Historic Interest

Not listed

Evaluation

This terraced house has inappropriate modern windows and the roofing has been alterd. Internally, rooms have been modernisedand subdivided and the extension is entirely modern. It is of no special architectural or historic interest.

General Comments

Date of Survey

02 December 1999