Entrance to Dunnywater, Head Road, Annalong, Newry, Co Down, BT34 4RR is a Grade B2 listed building in the Newry, Mourne and Down local planning authority area, Northern Ireland. First listed on 15 March 1996.
Entrance to Dunnywater, Head Road, Annalong, Newry, Co Down, BT34 4RR
- WRENN ID
- forgotten-joist-rowan
- Grade
- B2
- Local Planning Authority
- Newry, Mourne and Down
- Constituency
- South Down MP: Chris Hazzard (SF)
- Country
- Northern Ireland
- Date first listed
- 15 March 1996
- Irish grid reference
- J 357 222
- Coordinates
- 54.13168, -5.9234
- Source
- NI Environment Agency listing
Description
These gates mark the main entrance to the Belfast & District Water Commissioners’ Dunnywater waterworks, constructed around 1900 as part of the first phase of the Mourne Scheme, Belfast’s water supply. They are of architectural interest due to their style, proportions, and embellishments, and hold historical significance as one of several water-related structures within Dunnywater, contributing to the area’s group value.
The entrance consists of a set of double carriage gates set between four granite piers, with a smaller pedestrian gate located to their left when viewed from the outside. The piers are constructed of regularly coursed, quarry-faced ashlar granite, built upon chamfered pedestals and embellished with finely dressed quoins, two corbel courses at the top, and tall pyramidal tops surmounted by square finials with chamfered corners. To the left of the pedestrian gate is a screen made of squared granite rubble, topped with crenellated coping and terminating in a pier matching those at the main gates. A similar screen to the right of the main entrance curves around towards the road, ending in a fourth pier of matching appearance. Roughly dressed drystone granite walls run away from the piers. Both the vehicular and pedestrian gates are made of red-painted wrought-iron vertical bars, each terminating in arrowhead spikes. Alternate bars extend up to dog bar level and feature cast iron fretted quatrefoil and arrowhead spikes. Two diagonal bars, strengthened by a rosette, are set in the lower half of each gate.
The entrance, along with the nearby Water Superintendent’s house, was built in 1900 by P. Mc Aleenan, a Castlewellan building contractor, based on designs by L.L. Macassey, the Engineer to the Belfast City & District Water Commissioners. Original drawings indicate that the piers were intended to be 6 feet (1.8 meters) square and 21 feet 6 inches (6.6 meters) in overall height, with the main gates set 16 feet (4.9 meters) apart. Although a similar entrance was planned for the Silent Valley, it was not executed.
Local climate
Entrance to Dunnywater, Head Road, Annalong, Newry, Co Down, BT34 4RR sits in one of the wettest parts of the UK, with an average of 1,210 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 91% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 98% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 2 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 99% of listed buildings. Of these, 1 follows at least 1 mm of rain in the preceding 48 hours. Average temperatures at this location have risen by 0.2°C per decade since 1991.
Averages for 1991–2020; temperature trend 1991–2025. Figures describe the wider area (a grid cell of roughly 10 km), not the individual site. Contains modified Copernicus Climate Change Service information 2026.
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