Historic Buildings Record · Northern Ireland
27 Ballygelagh Road
Ballygelagh, Ards and North Down, Northern Ireland
The record
- Designation
- Record only (not listed)
- Grade
- Record Only
- Type
- Demolished
- Date of construction
- 1860 - 1879
- Address
- 27 Ballygelagh Road, Halftown, Ballygelagh, Kirkistown, Newtownards, Co. Down, BT22 1JG
- Townland
- Ballygelagh
- Council
- Ards and North Down
- Country
- Northern Ireland
- Coordinates
- 54.44145, -5.49935
- Date of survey
- 24 September 1997
- HB reference
- HB24/02/039
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Shown on 3 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
Site (on the side of the Ballygelagh Road south of Kirkistown) of former two storey house of perhaps c.1870s with formal front façade and decorated door surround. The building was demolished in 1995, with only various gabled outbuildings surrounding the grass covered ground where it once stood.
Description from 1st Survey "2/sty house with single/sty extension on L/H and single/sty projection at back. Roof asbestos slated, gabled ends. Yellow brick mld chimneys. 3 F/FL and 2 G/FL blocked window openings. Segmental arch head and decorated keystone. Walls rendered and lined. Central doorway with pilasters, lintol, cornice and blocking course. Decorated motifs on lintol, blocking course and frieze of pilasters. Door panelled and oblong fanlight blocked. Base course. Front 33ft."
Historical information
Building shown on this site on the OS Map of 1834 and c.1860, but the house on this site until recently may have dated from c.1870s. The building was demolished c.1995.
References- Primary sources
1 PRONI Ordnance Survey Maps, 1st Edition, 1834, Co. Down 25.
2 PRONI VAL 1B/35 1st valuation, Ardkeen, c.1835.
3 PRONI Ordnance Survey Maps, 1st revision, 1860, Co. Down 25.
4 PRONI 2nd valuation, Ardkeen, c.1863.
Criteria for listing: architectural interest
Not listed
Criteria for listing: historic interest
Not listed
Evaluation
Site of former house of possible later nineteenth century origin, demolished c.1995.
Nearby in the register
- Christ Church (C of I)Churchunder 1 mi
- ’Thorndale’Houseunder 1 mi
- ’The Hill Farm’House1 mi
- Ballycran National SchoolHall1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.