Mondarragh, , 4 Creevy Road, , Rademan, Crossgar, , Co. Down, BT30 9HX is a Grade B1 listed building in the Newry, Mourne and Down local planning authority area, Northern Ireland. First listed on 16 May 1980. 1 related planning application.
Mondarragh, , 4 Creevy Road, , Rademan, Crossgar, , Co. Down, BT30 9HX
- WRENN ID
- drifting-flint-tarn
- Grade
- B1
- Local Planning Authority
- Newry, Mourne and Down
- Country
- Northern Ireland
- Date first listed
- 16 May 1980
- Source
- NI Environment Agency listing
Description
Mondarragh is a substantial two-storey gabled house dating to approximately 1840–50, built in a simple late Georgian style. The house is situated at the end of a drive to the west of Creevy Road, roughly a mile west of Crossgar and four and a half miles east of Ballynahinch, in County Down.
The symmetrical south-facing front façade features a central panelled timber door with sidelights and a large semicircular fanlight. The fanlight displays radial tracery with interweaving detail around its perimeter, while the sidelights (which are more recent additions) incorporate glazed panels with similar interweaving detail. To the left of the doorway is a sash window with Georgian and margin panes (10/10), set within a shallow elliptical arch recess. The first floor contains three similar windows, not set within recesses. The west gable has a French door to the left on the ground floor, a modern insertion, and at attic level two small semicircular-headed recesses, originally windows. The east gable similarly has a window on the ground floor and first floor matching those to the front, with two recesses at attic level that were once windows.
A low-proportioned two-storey gabled return projects from the centre of the rear elevation. The west face of this return has a partly glazed door with a small window to the left and a slightly larger window to the right, both with modern frames; a similar window appears on the first floor to the right. The east face contains a window with modern frame to the centre of the ground floor, another to the first floor, and a tall semicircular-headed sash window (14/10) set at intermediate level to the left. A squat window with modern frame appears at ground floor left of the return's gable, with a blocked doorway to its right and a small window with modern frame above. The rear façade of the main building has windows to left and right on the ground floor, and a smaller first-floor window to the right; some window openings here appear to be modern insertions.
The entire façade is finished in roughcast render and painted. The roof is slated with two Velux windows inserted to the rear. Two rendered and painted chimney stacks rise from the main gables. Two-storey outbuildings stand to the rear.
At the entrance, a pair of good wrought-iron gates with heart-shaped finial detail and bracing rods are flanked by a smaller wire fence on a grass bank.
Historical records show a building on this site on the Ordnance Survey map of 1834, but its shape differs entirely from the present structure. The current house with its return first appears on the revised Ordnance Survey map of 1858, marked as Mondarragh. The property is listed in the 1863 valuation as the home of Arthur Johnston; James Orr was in residence in 1886, and the Orrs appear to have remained there until circa 1940. The property subsequently passed through several owners: Mr Gilpin, Mr Gibson, and Mr Steel (acquiring it in the mid-1970s). Around 1970 the interior was badly damaged by fire. The building was renovated with grant assistance from the Environment and Heritage Service in 1988. The present owner acquired the house in 1995.
The building is recognised for its style, proportion, ornamentation, surviving plan form, internal detail, and considered setting. The entrance gates and gate screen are included in the listing. It represents a good farmhouse of the era and is of local historical interest.
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