Historic Building Details

HB Ref No:
HB17/03/031

Address :
40 Main St Scarva Craigavon Co Down BT63 6LS

Townland:
Monclone

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Survey 2:
Record Only

Date of Listing:
25/10/1977 00:00:00

Date of De-listing:
18/11/2013 00:00:00

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:
220/10

IG Ref:
J0643 4369

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Owner Category

Private

Exterior Description And Setting

A two-storey four-bay mid-terrace townhouse pre-dating 1830; rectangular plan form with rear return. Located centrally in the village on the east side of Main Street. Pitched natural slate roofing with clay ridge tiles; uPVC replacement rainwater goods; cement rendered chimneys with clay pots. Dry-dashed rendered walling with cement plinth and quoins. 1/1 double-glazed timber sliding sash windows; masonry cills. Replacement timber front door. The principal elevation faces west and is asymmetrically arranged. The front door is located in the left bay; four windows to the right; alterations to original openings. The first floor comprises four unequally spaced windows. The left gable is abutted by 38 Main Street. (HB17/03/030). The rear elevation is asymmetrically arranged. Single-storey rear return located right of centre; door to the right; single uPVC casement window to the left. Five modern rooflights to the rear pitch. The right gable is abutted by 42 Main Street. (HB17/03/032). Setting The building is part of a continuous terrace running the full length of the east side of Main Street. Heavily vegetated embankment to the rear. Opposite the house is the two storey Park Inn, beyond which runs the Newry Canal. Roofing: Natural slate Walling: Dry dash Windows: Timber RWG: uPVC

Architects

Not Known

Historical Information

The building is a dwelling and former shop, of late eighteenth/early nineteenth century date, originally lime-rendered and likely to be one of the earlier buildings in Scarva. The building, which served for some years as a grocer’s shop, has evolved over time. The village of Scarva was founded, beside the newly-opened Newry Canal, in 1746 by John Reilly of Scarva House and the earliest buildings in the town are likely to be those nearest the bridge, the town extending northwards from this point during the course of the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries. The impetus for building the town came from the opening of the Newry Canal in 1742 to connect Carlingford Lough with Lough Neagh, principally as a means to bring coal from east Tyrone to Dublin speedily and inexpensively. (McCutcheon) John Reilly, the founder of the town, procured a patent for holding fairs and markets, in anticipation of building the town, and to build a small dock and quay. Taylor and Skinner’s 1777 map of Scarva shows that the early development of the town was concentrated around the bridge over the canal. The 1797 Topographica Hibernica describes Scarva as a ‘small neat village’ with a large ‘salt work’. Fairs were held four times a year. Capper’s Topographical Dictionary gives the population of Scarva in 1829 as 170 living in 33 houses. By 1875 traffic along the Newry Canal was bringing cargoes of turf to Scarva, using the dock and quay for lighters but the market was no longer being held. (Knox) The population remained reasonably steady over the course of the nineteenth century and in 1910 was 157. (Street Directory) A house is shown on the site on the 1st edition OS map of 1834 and is listed in the Townland Valuation of 1828-40 as a house and yard occupied by Felix Morrow and valued at £3.14s. Griffith’s Valuation lists the house as the property of JT Reilly, a house, yard and small garden valued at £7 and occupied by Owen Bradley who pays a rent of £8 a year. Dimensions are given for the two-storey slated house. Subsequent occupiers are Anne Taylor (1904) John Patton (1908) Thomas Allen (1910) Joseph Bennett (1911) John Moody (n.d.) Constable Davis (1920) and John Kinley (1927). At the time of the 1901 census the occupier was Belfast-born Samuel Dunlop, a grocer who was living with his Dublin wife. The couple appear to have travelled, their daughter was born in the USA and their son in Queenstown (now Cobh) County Cork. By 1911 the premises was run as a grocer’s shop by Joseph Bennett of County Down who lived with his Armagh wife and two children, both born in England. A photograph of 1910 shows the shop as a lime rendered building with door and window openings differing slightly from those captured at the time of the first survey in 1975. At the time of the First General Revaluation (1933/4) the occupier of the house, shop and garden was Sarah Kinley in fee. The house was revalued at £8.15s and accommodation comprised a kitchen, reception room, three bedrooms and a shop. The house has been remodelled since the First Survey of 1975 to remove the shopfront and is now in use as a single dwelling. References: Primary Sources 1. PRONI OS/6/3/33/1 First Edition OS Map 1834 2. PRONI OS/6/3/33/2 Second Edition OS map 1860 3. PRONI OS/6/3/33/3 Third Edition OS Map 1903 4. PRONI OS/6/3/33/4 Fourth Edition OS Map 1903-18 5. PRONI VAL/2/B/3/55D Griffith’s Valuation (1856-64) 6. PRONI VAL/12/B/16/22A-D Annual Revisions (1864-1929) 7. PRONI VAL/3/C/4/3 First General Revaluation (1936-57) 8. Taylor and Skinner’s Map of the Roads of Ireland, 1777 9. Capper, B.P. “A Topographical Dictionary of England, Wales, Scotland, Ireland” London: Sir Richard Phillips and Co, 1829 10. Seward, W W “Topographica Hibernica” Dublin, 1797 11. Young, A F and Quail, D “Old Gilford, Scarva, Loughbrickland and Lawrencetown” Stenlake Publishing, 2002 12. Street Directory, 1910 13. Banbridge Chronicle 26th July 1978 Secondary Sources 1. Day, A. and P. McWilliams, eds. “OS Memoirs of Ireland, Parishes of County Down III, 1833-8, Vol. 12.” Belfast: Institute of Irish Studies, 1992. 2. Knox, Alexander, M.D. “A History of the County of Down” Dublin: Hodges, Foster & Co, 1875 3. McCutcheon, W.A. “The Industrial Archaeology of Northern Ireland,” London: HMSO, 1980. 4. Shaffrey, P and M “Buildings of Irish Towns – Treasures of Everyday Architecture” Dublin: O’Brien, 1983 5. Young, A F and Quail, D “Old Gilford, Scarva, Loughbrickland and Lawrencetown” Stenlake Publishing, 2002

Criteria for Listing

Architectural Interest

Not listed

Historic Interest

Not listed

Evaluation

A two-storey four-bay mid-terrace house (formerly two dwellings) pre-dating 1830. The openings to the principal facade have been altered although the overall proportions and historic characteristics are still evident. Otherwise, it has been completely altered resulting in the loss of historic character and it does not meet the statutory and policy tests as a building of special architectural or historic interest.

General Comments

Date of Survey

08 December 2011