Historic Buildings Record · Northern Ireland
Presbyterian Manse
Ballykelly, Causeway Coast and Glens, Northern Ireland
The record
- Designation
- Listed building, Grade B2
- Grade
- B2
- Type
- Rectories/ Manses etc
- Date of listing
- 28 March 1975
- Date of construction
- 1840 - 1859
- Address
- Presbyterian Manse, 56 Main Street, Ballykelly, Limavady, Co Londonderry, BT49 9HS
- Townland
- Ballykelly
- Council
- Causeway Coast and Glens
- Country
- Northern Ireland
- Coordinates
- 55.04378, -7.01759
- Date of survey
- 16 June 1997
- HB reference
- HB02/10/005
Slide toward Today to fade the historical sheet and see the modern map underneath.
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Shown on 4 historical map sheets, the earliest the 1838 "Ireland, north sheet." (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries).
The Department's description
Exterior description and setting
A 1½ storey villa built on a site overlooking the centre of Ballykelly village where the Sistrakeel Road meets Main Street. When it was built it would have enjoyed views of Lough Foyle and the Inishowen Hills. The villa has a T-plan with the entrance porch tucked into the angle of the T on the western side. Each principal room has a stone faced bay window now painted. The walls are finished in smooth rendering and painted. The fenestration is a mixture of tall sliding sash windows, single ones decorated with a cornice with modillions missing (they may not have been intended) a couplet of round headed windows to the porch and Suitor version of a Venetian window filling the broken pediments in the gable. These windows have the plain Suitor stone architraves. The house has a slated pitched roof with several chimney stacks Window sashes have neat slim astragals with narrow panes framing the larger panes.
The house has been extended to the side and rear and unsympathetic dormers and windows used. However the principal facades retain their character. The house is in good repair. The northern gable has lost the returns of its broken pediment.
Historical information
The house was built during Reverend Dills tenure and when Arthur Sampson was the Fishmonger’s agent. The facades have the characteristics of the Suitor hand but his may only have been an overseeing role. Under Agent Sampson local people prepared plans, which were submitted to the Fishmonger in 1849.
References: J S Curl, The Londonderry plantation 1609-1914
Criteria for listing: architectural interest
A. Style
B. Proportion
C. Ornamentation
H-. Alterations detracting from building
J. Setting
Criteria for listing: historic interest
W. Northern Ireland/International Interest
Evaluation
An early Victorian villa sited in its own grounds within the village and displaying confident architectural handling of overall form and detail.
Nearby in the register
- CottagesHouseunder 1 mi
- Ballykelly Primary SchoolSchoolunder 1 mi
- 28 Main StreetHouse - Terraceunder 1 mi
- 26 Main StreetHouse - Terraceunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.