Historic Buildings Record · Northern Ireland
28-30 Main Street
Kircubbin, Ards and North Down, Northern Ireland
The record
- Designation
- Record only (not listed)
- Grade
- Record Only
- Type
- House
- Date of construction
- 1820 - 1839
- Address
- 28-30 Main Street, Kircubbin, Newtownards, Co. Down, BT22 2SP
- Townland
- Kircubbin
- Council
- Ards and North Down
- Country
- Northern Ireland
- Coordinates
- 54.48892, -5.53534
- Date of survey
- 06 October 1997
- HB reference
- HB24/02/015
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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
Two storey terraced house and shop at the N end of Main Street in the village of Kircubbin.
Front SW elevation has modern glazed door with adjoining fixed light shop window to right (shop is No.28). Large PVC internally illuminated sign above shop front and similar (but much smaller) projecting sign to left at first floor.
No.30 ground floor has modern two pane timber window to left, timber panelled door with plain narrow fanlight in ‘centre’ and segmental arch head coach opening to right, with timber double door.
First floor (which belongs entirely to No.30), has four windows as ground floor No.30. Entire facade finished in limestone chip render, with crude ‘home made’ window boxes to house cills. Roof pitched with asbestos-free slates and three lined rendered chimney stacks. Cast iron gutters and down spouts. Large full height flat roofed return/extension at rear No.30, long single storey ‘lean to’ extension to rear of No.28, all with modern windows.
Historical information
This section of terrace may be early nineteenth century (or slightly earlier) in origin as buildings are shown on this site on the 1834 OS Map, however, in the absence of concrete sources it is difficult to be certain. Photographic evidence shows that No.28 has been a shop since at least c.1910, and that all the window and door openings to the front were the same then as now. The large flat roofed return to No.30 was added in the 1940s.
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
Not listed
Criteria for listing: historic interest
Not listed
Evaluation
Plain and unremarkable two storey terraced shop and house of probable pre 1834 origin but now with modern shop front and interior.
Nearby in the register
- 24-26 Main StreetShopunder 1 mi
- 30A-32 Main StreetHouseunder 1 mi
- 25-27 Main StreetHouseunder 1 mi
- ’The Village Inn’Public Houseunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.