Historic Buildings Record · Northern Ireland
13 Main Street
Kircubbin, Ards and North Down, Northern Ireland
The record
- Designation
- Record only (not listed)
- Grade
- Record Only
- Type
- House - Terrace
- Date of construction
- 1820 - 1839
- Address
- 13 Main Street, Kircubbin, Newtownards, Co. Down, BT22 2SS
- Townland
- Kircubbin
- Council
- Ards and North Down
- Country
- Northern Ireland
- Coordinates
- 54.48922, -5.53605
- Date of survey
- 06 October 1997
- HB reference
- HB24/02/001 C
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Shown on 5 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
Part of a two storey gabled terrace at the N end of Main Street, containing three properties.
Front (E) façade is double fronted with an off centre front timber panel door with a ‘tripartite’ PVC window to the left and a smaller single window to the right, with four similar (but slightly smaller) windows to the first floor. The door and windows all have plain moulded surrounds. The front elevation is finished in lined render with chamfered quoins.
The exposed S gable is blank. This gable is finished in lined render. There is a brown brick chimney to this gable.
Rear has mixture of PVC windows and central full height hipped roof return.
The roof of the main house is pitched and all roofs have asbestos slates. A yellow brick chimney, with dentilled corbelling, is shared with No.9/11 (HB24/02/001A and B).
Historical information
A terrace is shown on this site on the OS Map of 1834, complete with the post office at ‘No.11’ where (assuming the terrace is as original as it appears) it remains to this day. A photograph dating from c.1910 (from the Green Collection) shows these buildings much as present, with the same sized door and window openings, however, the door of No.13 was at that stage encased with pilasters and a lintel and cornice, all of which has recently been removed.
1 PRONI Ordnance Survey Maps, 1st Edition, 1834, Co. Down 18.
2 PRONI Ordnance Survey Memoirs of Ireland Vol.7: Parishes of County Down II, ed. Angelique Day and Patrick McWilliams (QUB 1991), p. 84-5. [c.1834].
3 PRONI VAL 1B/311A & B 1st valuation, Inishargy, c.1835.
4 Pigot & Cos “City of Dublin and Hibernian Provincial Directory” (Manchester 1824), pp. 417-18. [Description of the town of Kircubbin etc. in c.1824. See also Slater’s “Directory” for 1846, 1856 and 1870, original copies of which are currently held at the Linenhall Library, Belfast.]
5 PRONI Ordnance Survey Maps, 1st revision, 1860, Co. Down 18.
6 PRONI 2nd valuation, Inishargy, c.1863.
7 UFTM WAG 1837 W.A. Green Collection- Photograph of Main Street, Kircubbin, c.1910.
Criteria for listing: architectural interest
Not listed
Criteria for listing: historic interest
Not listed
Evaluation
Two storey terrace house of probable early nineteenth origin which has recently been renovated. It has now PVC window frames, asbestos slates and has lost some of its front façade detailing.
Nearby in the register
- 11 Main StreetPost Office - Terraceunder 1 mi
- 9 Main StreetHouse - Terraceunder 1 mi
- 15 Main StreetRectories/ Manses etcunder 1 mi
- 24-26 Main StreetShopunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.