219 Ardglass Road

The Department's description

Exterior description and setting

A single storey, five bay house set back behind a low wall and an area of grass parallel to the main road from Downpatrick to Ardglass and facing east. There is a further grassed area to the south side of the forecourt that is finished with stone screenings and there is tiled paving at the rear. The entrance to the house, placed just left of centre on the front elevation, is recessed within a segmental arched opening. The door that is a modern interpretation of a six panel raised and fielded type is flanked by sidelights that together with the fanlight are filled with obscure glass. There are raised and fielded panels at the base of the sidelights. To the south of the entrance there are two top hung timber windows with deep sills. Two similar windows to the right are spaced further apart, the first lighting the original house and the other the later part of the building to the north. The rear of the main house is lighted by two top hung timber windows.

The south gable is blank and on the opposite, or north side, a wing wall encloses the entrance to the farmyard. There is an Edward VII letterbox set in the part of the wall that faces the road.

The wall finish is of modern roughcast above a smooth rendered recessed base. The roof is covered with cement fibre slates contained within large cement skews on the original four bay block and with a similar smaller termination on the extension, each rising to a chimneystack finished with plain cappings and one black pot. Rainwater goods are of plastic.

The building extends to the rear in two periods of single storey construction. The windows are modern in form either of timber or plastic framing. The doors are of timber sheeting or are flush. The roofs are of natural slate and the rainwater goods are of plastic.

The front wall and piers are finished with modern roughcast above a smooth rendered base. The gate piers and the walling have cast concrete copings and cappings. The gates are of modern galvanised mild steel construction.

Historical information

References-

Primary sources

OS map, 1st edition 1833-34, Co. Down 45

Criteria for listing: architectural interest

Not listed

Criteria for listing: historic interest

Not listed

Evaluation

The external appearance has been altered completely and apart from two early doors all detail has been removed from the interior.