Historic Buildings Record · Northern Ireland
Little Clandeboye
Ards and North Down, Northern Ireland
The record
- Designation
- Record only (not listed)
- Grade
- Record Only
- Type
- No type recorded
- Address
- Little Clandeboye, Main Street, Conlig, Co Down
- Council
- Ards and North Down
- Country
- Northern Ireland
- Coordinates
- 54.62317, -5.68085
- Date of survey
- 04 February 2011
- HB reference
- HB23/06/007
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 1636 "Vltoniae Orientalis Pars" (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries).
The Department's description
Exterior description and setting
The Little Clandeboye ruins have been demolished.
The First Survey card records:
'Ruins of former large house. All timber work gone but walls & architectural detail still substantially remain. 2/Sty main bldg with basement & single /sty extensions to N. & S. Main bldg facing due E has 3 bays. Central bay recessed, has parapet & upturned frieze, 2 F/FL window opes, bevel surround & label mldg. continued as string course. Porch screen in front has 3 pointed arches, centre wider, with dividing Gothic pilasters (2) &n triple columnar supports to arches carried up as archivolts. Arch haunches have trefoil infill panel. F/FL level string course & crenellated parapet. Panelled pilaster buttresses finish with triangular pinnacle. Main wall behind screen has central doorway with flat painted arch head on triple columns & triple archivolt. Door opening has decor. panelled architrave. On each side of doorway is window, painted arch head & bevel surround. 6 mld. wide steps up to entrance screen. Walls generally in whinstone rubble, rendered & lined with sandstone dressings. [description continues over 3 sheets]
Condition ruinous & abandoned. E. front about 115 ft.
Has same design features as Ballyalton House & possibly by same archt.
Appears on O.S. Map of 1834.
Date of visit: 23/11/72'
Evaluation
The Little Clandeboye ruins have been demolished
General comments
Partial Survey Only
Nearby in the register
- The Gate LodgeGates/ Screens/ Lodgesunder 1 mi
- 40, 42 Main StreetNo type recordedunder 1 mi
- The ManseNo type recordedunder 1 mi
- Standing StoneNo type recordedunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.