Boathouse on lane to, 97 Cranfield Point Lane, Cranfield, Kilkeel, Newry, Co Down, BT34 4LP is a Grade Record Only listed building in the Newry, Mourne and Down local planning authority area, Northern Ireland.
Boathouse on lane to, 97 Cranfield Point Lane, Cranfield, Kilkeel, Newry, Co Down, BT34 4LP
- WRENN ID
- peeling-spindle-rush
- Grade
- Record Only
- Local Planning Authority
- Newry, Mourne and Down
- Constituency
- South Down MP: Chris Hazzard (SF)
- Country
- Northern Ireland
- Address
- Boathouse on lane to, 97 Cranfield Point Lane, Cranfield, Kilkeel, Newry, Co Down, BT34 4LP, BT34 4LP
- Irish grid reference
- J 273 101
- Coordinates
- 54.02458, -6.05829
- Source
- NI Environment Agency listing
Description
The ruinous remains of a boathouse stand between the road and the cliff edge at Cranfield, near Kilkeel, Co Down. Dating to between 1820 and 1839, the structure is functionally associated with the nearby coastguard houses, which were erected in the early 1820s and occupied until the 1880s.
The visible structure comprises a retaining wall to the road, enclosing a passage to the rear of the remaining walls, including a low rear wall and two side walls. The walls are constructed of split rubble, and were originally whitewashed internally. The floor appears to have been cobbled with beach stones. Scattered within the ruins are pieces of slate, likely from the roof, and red brick, possibly from dressings around openings. The structure has been significantly eroded by wave action.
The boathouse is referenced in the 1836 Ordnance Survey Memoir and shown on the 1834 Ordnance Survey map. A local resident recalls that the building once had a front garden and a slipway to the sea, and was occupied until the 1930s. Although derelict, the boathouse possesses industrial archaeological interest.
Local climate
Boathouse on lane to, 97 Cranfield Point Lane, Cranfield, Kilkeel, Newry, Co Down, BT34 4LP sits in a wetter-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 1,080 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 87% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 92% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 7 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 95% of listed buildings. Of these, 4 follow 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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