Historic Buildings Record · Northern Ireland
’The Hill Farm’
Tullytramon, Ards and North Down, Northern Ireland
The record
- Designation
- Record only (not listed)
- Grade
- Record Only
- Type
- House
- Date of construction
- 1820 - 1839
- Address
- ’The Hill Farm’, 57 Portaferry Road, Tullytramon, Cloghy, Newtownards, Co. Down, BT22 1HP
- Townland
- Tullytramon
- Council
- Ards and North Down
- Country
- Northern Ireland
- Coordinates
- 54.42701, -5.49607
- Date of survey
- 24 September 1997
- HB reference
- HB24/02/045
Slide toward Today to fade the historical sheet and see the modern map underneath.
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Shown on 4 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
Much renovated single storey gabled farmhouse with attic situated on a hill top less than a mile west of the village of Cloghy.
Front SE facade has off centre timber panel door with two modern two pane timber windows to left of door, and one to right. Two similar upper level windows to NE gable with one to right on ground floor, with similar arrangement to SW gable.
Rear has off centre timber and glazed back door with a window to left and two to right, much as before only smaller.
Entire house finished in limestone chip render with simple smooth cement surrounds to doors and windows and edges of some walls. Smooth cement to base also. Roof gabled and pitched with concrete pan tiles, stone parapets and four yellow brick chimney stacks with dentilled corbelling. Velux window to right of centre at rear. PVC ogee gutters and square down spouts.
Tall rendered wall enclosing corrugated iron ‘shed’ to right at rear.
Historical information
A building is shown on this site on the OS Map of 1834, much the same as today, therefore, it may be assumed that this house dates from the early nineteenth century at least.
References- Primary sources
1 PRONI Ordnance Survey Maps, 1st Edition, 1834, Co. Down 25.
2 PRONI VAL 1B/310 1st valuation, Castleboy, c.1835.
3 Ordnance Survey Memoirs of Ireland Vol.7: Parishes of County Down II, ed. Angelique Day and Patrick McWilliams (QUB 1991), pp. 26-7.
4 PRONI Ordnance Survey Maps, 1st revision, 1860, Co. Down 25.
5 PRONI 2nd valuation, Castleboy, c.1863.
Secondary sources
1 A.J. Hughes and R.J. Hannan 'Place-Names of Northern Ireland Vol. Two, County Down II- The Ards', p.81.
Criteria for listing: architectural interest
Not listed
Criteria for listing: historic interest
Not listed
Evaluation
Plain, recently renovated one and a half storey vernacular farmhouse of probable of pre 1834 origin.
Nearby in the register
- Castleboy Old ChurchDemolishedunder 1 mi
- CastleboyDemolishedunder 1 mi
- Old Corn MillHouseunder 1 mi
- Old Presbyterian Church, 1A Main Road, Cloughy, BT22 1GBNo type recordedunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.