30A-32 Main Street

The Department's description

Exterior description and setting

Two storey terraced house and shop at the N end Main Street in the village of Kircubbin.

Front SW facade has modern timber four pane window with timber panelled door to right, with both window and door belonging to No.30A. No.32 has modern fixed light shop window with adjoining door (to right), with PVC [?internally illuminated] shop sign and awning above. Flat arch coach way to right of shop front with large modern metal ‘garage’ door. The first floor (which all belongs to No.30A) has four windows similar to ground floor of No.30A. Front facade finished in limestone chip render with chamfered plinth.

Rear has gabled return and flat roofed extensions, all with modern windows.

Roof pitched with Bangor blue slates, with a line rendered chimney stack to No.30 and a brick stack, shared with No.34. Cast iron gutters and down spouts.

Historical information

A building is shown on the is site on the OS map of 1834. Conceivably this house and shop may date from the early nineteenth century, or even earlier, however, in the absence of concrete evidence, its age can only be conjectured. A photograph of this property dating from c.1910 shows that whilst modern doors and windows have been installed, the openings have remained the same. The current owner (1997) informed the writers that No.32 has been a shop for over a century.

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.
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

Unremarkable two storey terrace shop and house of possible early nineteenth century origin, but now with modern window frames, shop front and pebbledash.