Historic Buildings Record · Northern Ireland
Old Head
Ards and North Down, Northern Ireland
The record
- Designation
- Record only (not listed)
- Grade
- Record Only
- Type
- No type recorded
- Address
- Old Head, 28 Ballymenoch Road, Holywood, Co Down
- Council
- Ards and North Down
- Country
- Northern Ireland
- Coordinates
- 54.64124, -5.81135
- Date of survey
- 04 February 2011
- HB reference
- HB23/18/056
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 house has been demolished and a new housing development erected on the site.
The First Survey card records:
'A single storey bungalow of immediate post-war date, with large windows, a feature chimney in stone, and stone quoins to the front entrance recess, but extended to one end with a link block leading to a storey and a half addition.
designed for Douglas Wilson by the architect Granville Smyth, 1950. Featured in an article on Ulster architecture in 1951 published by R. J. McKinstry in Architects Journal, 31 May, 1951.'
Historical information
N/A
Criteria for listing: architectural interest
Not listed
Criteria for listing: historic interest
Not listed
Evaluation
The house has been demolished and a new housing development erected on the site.
General comments
Partial Survey Only
Nearby in the register
- STONE COTTAGES ATHOUSEunder 1 mi
- The Holywood Rudolf Steiner SchoolSchoolunder 1 mi
- Sir Samuel Kelly Memorial Eventide HomeResidential Homeunder 1 mi
- 7 Ardmore TerraceNo type recordedunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.