Historic Building Details

HB Ref No:
HB16/26/020 D

Address :
Newry Baptist Church 11 Downshire Place Newry Co Down BT34 1DZ

Townland:
Carneyhogue

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Survey 2:
B+

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

Date of De-listing:

Current Use:
Church

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:
J0888 2706

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Owner Category

Church - Other

Exterior Description And Setting

Left one of a symmetrical terrace of four two-storey (+semi-basement + attic)/ three-bay houses on the east side of Downshire Road. Three openings wide at front and to side. Hipped, artificial slate L-shaped roof is gabled at right where adjoins no.9. Cement rendered chimneys with projecting caps rise from either end of front ridge (right chimney shared with no.9). Semicircular metal rainwater goods. Wall to façade is painted line render with stepped render quoins and plain rendered projecting eaves course. Single granite step rises to granite paved platform in front of main entrance at ground floor centre. Original palmette-headed cast iron railings flank sides of platform. To left and right of doorway, inset into granite paving, are metal boot scrapers. Door is painted timber with beaded muntin, four bolection moulded panels, and assorted ironmongery. Door frame is of reeded timber and is flanked by two three-quarter attached granite Tuscan columns which support a moulded granite entablature. Above is a decorative lead Greek Revival rectangular transom light. Entrance opening has one piece moulded granite jambs, with scrolled consoles at top supporting a moulded granite cornice. On wall to right of front door is a modern glazed timber sign. To left and right bays at ground floor are single 6/6 sliding sash window with horizontal drip moulds (which have foliated stops). These and all other windows have horns and painted granite cills unless otherwise stated. At basement, in line with ground floor windows, are 3/3 sliding sashes (without labels). Underneath entrance platform is a porch which divides the passage across front of basement into two sections. Porch has t+g sheeted door on right cheek. At first floor are three equally spaced labelled windows, as ground floor but slightly diminished in height. Wall to left elevation is rendered as facade with passage to front and similar quoins to each corner and projecting eaves course. There are three equally spaced 3/3 sliding sash windows to basement. At ground and first floors are three labelled 6/6 sashes in line with each other; those to first floor are slightly diminished in height. Right gable forms party wall with adjacent property (no.9). The basement to rear elevation is at ground level due to the site’s sloping topography. The right section of this elevation forms a hipped return to the front section. Wall is painted unlined render with projecting eaves course. The angle between the back of the main block and left cheek of the return is infilled with a one-storey extension. The exposed section of main block wall, at left, left contains a pair of small modern top-hung casements windows with concrete cills at basement level. At ground floor left is a 3/3 sliding sash window; this and all other rear sashes are without horns. To right, on half landing between ground floor and first floor (over extension) is a tall 6/6 sliding sash half-landing window. At first floor left, in line with ground floor window, is a 6/6 sliding sash window. The gable wall of return formerly had a chimney, now removed. At basement level is a pair of modern timber and glass doors with matching sidelights. To ground floor, at left and right, are single 1/1 sliding sashes. The left cheek of return is abutted to basement by the extension. At first floor is a single 3/3 sliding sash window (with horns and concrete cill). Extension has a hipped, overhanging artificial slate roof and smooth rendered walls. There is a pair of modern doors with sidelights (as those to return) in its rear wall. To immediate left of doors is a small modern top-hung window, and similar to left cheek. Setting A garden to front is bounded to street by a painted and rendered coped wall. A concrete path from gate leads to entrance steps. The side garden is bounded by random rubble wall and contains a stained timber picket fence with gate to rear garden. Rear garden is enclosed to sides by granite rubble walls and to back by a modern rendered cement coped wall with pair of timber gates to Church Avenue.

Architects

Not Known

Historical Information

Shown in present form in 1834 OS map. Owned by Col. William Hamilton 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. Purchased by Trustees of First Newry Presbyterian Church (Sandys St) in 1855 for use as a minister’s house. 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). 5. Rev. W.G. Straban, 1904, ‘First Newry Presbyterian Church’, p.43 (Newry).

Criteria for Listing

Architectural Interest

A. Style B. Proportion C. Ornamentation D. Plan Form I. Quality and survival of Interior K. Group value

Historic Interest

X. Local Interest

Evaluation

Left one of a symmetrical terrace of four two-storey/ three-bay houses. A fine example of an earlier 19th century Georgian townhouse in virtually original condition 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