25 Mound Road, Milltown, Newry, Co Down, BT34 3PP

25 Mound Road, Milltown, Newry

An attractive and somewhat unusual design for this area, particularly notable for its distinctive roof treatment.

A one and a half storey, three-bay house set in a garden on the east side of Mound Road. The building features a half-hipped natural slate mansard roof with plain timber eaves carrying half-round metal rainwater goods. Cement-rendered chimneys flank either side of the central bay. Three gable dormers punctuate the front pitch and one the rear pitch, each with pitched natural slate roofs featuring wavy-cut bargeboards and small finials. The dormers contain pairs of 4/1 side-hung casements with slate-hung cheeks.

The walls are rendered in dashed cement with smooth cement render trim to corners, base course and gable detailing. Windows are fitted with decorative eared architraves. The principal elevation faces north-west towards the road.

The main entrance is contained within a porch abutting the right end of the left bay, with a gabled natural slate roof, plain overhanging bargeboards, and a front wall of dashed render. The porch front contains a pair of fixed windows, each with two small glazed transoms, flanked by plain sidelights. The left cheek has similar glazing. The right cheek contains a modern four-panelled door with round-headed glazed top panes, flanked by narrow sidelights.

The left bay of the front elevation features a 4/2 sliding sash window with horns and painted cill. The middle bay contains a slightly larger window opening with a pair of 6/1 sliding sashes. The right bay has a window similar to the left. The left gable has a 6/1 sliding sash window at ground floor and is blank above.

The rear elevation is abutted to the right by a rear return, with the remainder of the wall blank. The rear return roof matches that of the main block and carries two gable dormers (wider than those on the main block) on its left pitch. Its left cheek has a modern four-panelled door to ground floor left with glazed sidelights. The remaining wall contains three modern 6/1 top-hung casement windows. Its end gable has a pair of French windows at ground floor and a small modern window in the gable. Its right cheek has a tongue-and-groove sheeted door with glazed top panel. To its right is a pair of 2/1 modern side-hung casement windows, and to the right of these is a narrow margin-paned window.

The right gable of the main block has a partly glazed timber door at ground floor centre, set within an open timber porch with a pitched natural slate roof featuring a wavy bargeboard, supported on plain timber posts with trellis frames filling its cheeks.

The setting comprises small mature gardens to front and rear, with a driveway from the road running up the right side of the house to a rear yard area. A pair of low decorative timber gates faces the road.

Historical Context

Although a house is recorded on this site on the 1834 Ordnance Survey 6-inch map, it was demolished around 1919. No house is noted in the Valuation Books until sometime after 1931. The present house appears to be a complete rebuild of inter-War date, probably constructed between 1920 and 1939.