Historic Buildings Record · Northern Ireland
Cottages
Ballyhalbert, Ards and North Down, Northern Ireland
The record
- Designation
- Record only (not listed)
- Grade
- Record Only
- Type
- House
- Date of construction
- 1820 - 1839
- Address
- Cottages, 8 Victoria Road, Ballyhalbert, Newtownards, Co. Down, BT22 1DQ
- Townland
- Ballyhalbert
- Council
- Ards and North Down
- Country
- Northern Ireland
- Coordinates
- 54.49137, -5.46697
- Date of survey
- 11 September 1997
- HB reference
- HB24/03/026
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
Long single storey whitewashed gabled terrace consisting of a house (or cottage) with attached out buildings, all set back from the Victoria Road, west of Ballyhalbert. The house is roughly in the middle of the terrace and has an off centre timber panelled door with a sliding sash and case window with vertical astragals to the right and a further two to the left. The out house to the right (SE) has three door openings and a dilapidated Bangor blue slated pitched roof, whilst the out house the NW has one door opening with a corrugated asbestos pitched roof. The house itself has a pitched roof with Bangor blue slates, four rendered chimney stacks and a cast iron gutter.
Historical information
Building shown on this site on the OS map of 1834.
References- Primary sources
1 PRONI Ordnance Survey Maps, 1st Edition, 1834, Co. Down 18.
2 PRONI VAL 1B/312 1st valuation, St. Andrews, c.1835.
3 PRONI Ordnance Survey Maps, 1st Revision, 1860, Co. Down 18.
4 PRONI 2nd valuation, St. Andrews, c.1863.
Criteria for listing: architectural interest
Not listed
Criteria for listing: historic interest
Not listed
Evaluation
Single storey vernacular terrace consisting of a dwelling house and out houses, probably of pre 1834 construction and now partly dilapidated.
Nearby in the register
- School Master's HouseDemolishedunder 1 mi
- Victoria SchoolDemolishedunder 1 mi
- Standing stone,Standing Stoneunder 1 mi
- Ballyhalbert ChurchGraveyardunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.