232 Ballybogey Road

The Department's description

Exterior description and setting

Detached asymmetrical split-level single-storey over part basement rendered Modernist house, built c.1968, to the designs of Robert Morrow of John Neill & Partners. Laid out as a pair of staggered blocks, facing north on an elevated site at the end of a long bitmac lane to the southwest of Ballybogy Road, shared with a neighbouring house.

Flat rubber-lined roofs with horizontally-sheeted timber eaves apron. Painted rough-cast cement rendered walling with recessed smooth rendered plinth course. Full-height square-headed window openings of vertical emphasis with splayed sills formed in the plinth course and original hardwood double-glazed windows.

Split-level front elevation with the west end rising above the remainder of the façade over basement and having an oriel type bay window cantilevered over clerestorey windows to the basement. Main entrance adjacent to the bay window with a varnished vertically-sheeted hardwood paneling to the entrance bay with matching door and opening onto two concrete paved steps.

Symmetrical east side elevation has full-height windows wrapping around both corners. This elevation is now extended to the left as a sheeted hardwood screen wall.

Rear elevation abutted by a lean-to hardwood framed conservatory, added c.2000 flanked by projecting walls. To the west is the bedroom block set back to the southwest corner of the main block.

West side elevation is abutted by a large rendered chimneystacks and framed by a corner window to the left and a glazed patio door to the right opening onto a terracotta tiled floating patio. The bedroom block projects beyond the west elevation by a further four windows.

Setting
Located on an elevated site at the end of a long shared bitmac drive to the southwest of Ballybogy Road with extensive landscaped gardens overlooking the coast.

Roof Rubber compound
RWG Not seen
Walling Painted rough-cast cement render
Windows Original hardwood casement

Historical information

The current dwelling was constructed in 1968 to designs by Robert Morrow of John Neill & Partners. The house does not appear on historic OS map editions but is first listed in valuation records in 1970 at £42. The initial occupier was Alexander George Hamilton Morrow, presumably a relative of the architect. The house was extended by the addition of a sun-room c2000.

References:

Primary Sources

1. PRONI VAL/4/B/1/26 Second General Revaluation 1933-57

Secondary Sources

1. Owner information

Criteria for listing: architectural interest

Not listed

Criteria for listing: historic interest

Not listed

Evaluation

Detached asymmetrical split-level single-storey over part basement rendered Modernist house, built c.1968, to the designs of Robert Morrow of John Neill & Partners. This modest-scaled Modernist house occupies a prominent elevated location but does not meet the criteria for listing.