Historic Buildings Record · Northern Ireland
1 Quintin Bay Road
Tara, Ards and North Down, Northern Ireland
The record
- Designation
- Record only (not listed)
- Grade
- Record Only
- Type
- House
- Date of construction
- 1820 - 1839
- Address
- 1 Quintin Bay Road, Tara, Portaferry, Co Down, BT22 1QB
- Townland
- Tara
- Council
- Ards and North Down
- Country
- Northern Ireland
- Coordinates
- 54.35933, -5.49095
- Date of survey
- 08 August 1997
- HB reference
- HB24/01/072
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Shown on 4 historical map sheets, the earliest the 1794 "Sheet 55. (Cary's England, Wales, and Scotland)." (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries).
The Department's description
Exterior description and setting
Long, single storey vernacular dwelling of probable pre 1834 construction, with small lean-to porch to front and small modern extensions to rear. The property is set at the end of a lane to the S of Quintin Bay Road, c.3 miles SE of Portaferry.
The front façade faces S and is asymmetrical. To the left of centre is a small lean-to (with a very shallow pitch) porch extension, with timber sheeted door to E face, fixed light window to S face, and a steel six pane window to W. To the left of the porch are two sash windows, to the right are three similar windows, widely spaced.
Both E and W gables are blank, but that to east has water tank set on top of small block built store in middle of gable.
Rear elevation has three windows similar to front, but with horizontal astragals, and two small flat roofed extensions with modern timber windows and a glazed door to the extension to the west.
The façade is finished in rough cast and painted. Part of render at rear has broken away to reveal random rubble construction.
The gabled roof is covered with asbestos slates. Stone parapets and four rendered chimney stacks with a single pot to the first and third stacks (from W). Eaves course, cast iron gutters and down spouts. Adjacent out buildings.
Historical information
A building is shown on this site on the 1834 OS map and all other maps thereafter. It is probable that the house we see today corresponds to that of 1834. Unfortunately. the property was not recorded during the valuation of 1838.
References- Primary sources
1 PRONI OS/6/3/32/1 OS maps, 1st ed., 1834, Down sheet 32
2 PRONI VAL/1B/37 1st valuation, Ballyphilip, c.1835-38 [The house on this site is not recorded in the first valuation.]
3 PRONI OS/6/3/32/2 OS maps, 1st rev., 1860, Down sheet 32
4 PRONI Second ('Griffith's') valuation, 1861 [in print]
Criteria for listing: architectural interest
Not listed
Criteria for listing: historic interest
Not listed
Evaluation
Long, single storey vernacular dwelling of probable pre 1834 construction, with small lean-to porch to front and small modern extensions to rear.
Nearby in the register
- Tara FortFortunder 1 mi
- Telephone Kiosk, Quintinbay Road, Portaferry, Co Down, BT22 1RETelephone Kioskunder 1 mi
- 19 Ballyfounder RoadHouseunder 1 mi
- St Cooey’s WellsWellunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.