73-91 Main Street

The Department's description

Exterior description and setting

Terrace of recently ‘modernised’ two storey gabled single fronted dwellings and shops on the south side of Main Street within the village of Kircubbin. All of these buildings have been greatly altered during recent times, with window openings enlarged and modern windows installed in all properties.

Nos.79 and 83 converted to shops, roofs recovered in either asbestos, asbestos-free or concrete slates, modern doors installed to Nos.73-87, and some houses rendered with limestone chips.

At the rear, large returns/extensions have been added, most with flat roofs, PVC gutters and down spouts have been installed in places and all chimney stacks appear to have been reconstructed.

Historical information

Buildings are shown on this site on the OS Map of 1834, however, recent alteration to the terrace as a whole and lack of documentary evidence, makes it difficult to ascertain a date of construction. The curved corner to the house at the south end of the terrace (No.91) may suggest that this property, at least, may have been built/rebuilt in the early twentieth century. Conceivably sections of the terrace may have been rebuilt at various stages, and the dwellings shown on the 1834 map may have now been replaced entirely.

References- Primary sources
1 Pigot & Co.s “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.]
2 PRONI Ordnance Survey Maps, 1st Edition, 1834, Co. Down 18.
3 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]
4 PRONI VAL 1B/311A & B 1st valuation, Inishargy, c.1835.
5 PRONI Ordnance Survey Maps, 1st revision, 1860, Co. Down 18.
6 PRONI 2nd valuation, Inishargy, c.1863.

Criteria for listing: architectural interest

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Criteria for listing: historic interest

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Evaluation

A much altered and ‘modernised’, plain, two storey, terrace of possible late 19th to early 20th century origin, with many window openings enlarged at front and modern extensions to the rear.