Historic Buildings Record · Northern Ireland
45 Cloughy Road
Ratallagh, Ards and North Down, Northern Ireland
The record
- Designation
- Record only (not listed)
- Grade
- Record Only
- Type
- House
- Date of construction
- 1860 - 1879
- Address
- 45 Cloughy Road, Ratallagh, Portavogie, Newtownards, Co. Down, BT22 1EF
- Townland
- Ratallagh
- Council
- Ards and North Down
- Country
- Northern Ireland
- Coordinates
- 54.44827, -5.45159
- Date of survey
- 18 September 1997
- HB reference
- HB24/03/009
Slide toward Today to fade the historical sheet and see the modern map underneath.
David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford LibrariesDavid Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford LibrariesNational Library of Scotland
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
Two storey house with single storey extension to S gable and single storey return to rear, set on the Cloughy Road, just south of Portavogie, overlooking the shore.
E facade has off centre timber glazed front door with two pane PVC window to right with one to left and two to far left on extension. Three similar windows to first floor main house. All windows have smooth cement surrounds.
N gable main house has window as before to left on ground floor and right on first floor, with one to side of return.
S gable of main house and extension both blank. S side of return has modern two pane window to left and two plain timber sheeted doors to right.
W gable which is the rear of the main house has three windows similar to front on first floor with two to ground floor. Window to left on first floor is partly obscured by ridge of return roof. Rear of extension has plain sheeted timber door to left and large modern two pane PVC window to right.
Roofs of all sections of house pitched and gabled with asbestos free slates to main house, Bangor blues to return and asbestos slates to extension. Two yellow brick chimneys stacks to main house and one rendered stack to return.
PVC gutters and down spouts. Entire house finished in limestone chip render with smooth cement render to wall edges and base.
Low rendered rubble wall to front.
Historical information
Building shown on site on OS Map of 1834 and on that of 1860, but on both occasions without return or extension. When first surveyed in 1971, the decoration to the windows and doors of this housewas reminiscent of the 1860s.
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
Plain two storey house of probable mid 19th century origin, the Victorian decoration to the front facade having been removed.
Nearby in the register
- Kirkistown CastleGallery/ Museumunder 1 mi
- Barn by Kirkistown CastleOutbuildingsunder 1 mi
- Old WindmillWindmillunder 1 mi
- 83 Main RoadHouse1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.