Historic Buildings Record · Northern Ireland
9 Main Street
Ballywalter, Ards and North Down, Northern Ireland
The record
- Designation
- Record only (not listed)
- Grade
- Record Only
- Type
- House
- Date of listing
- 20 December 1976
- Date of delisting
- 3 July 2003
- Date of construction
- 1860 - 1879
- Address
- 9 Main Street, Ballywalter, Newtownards, Co. Down, BT22 2PQ
- Townland
- Ballywalter
- Council
- Ards and North Down
- Country
- Northern Ireland
- Coordinates
- 54.54254, -5.48401
- Date of survey
- 12 November 1997
- HB reference
- HB24/04/036 C
Slide toward Today to fade the historical sheet and see the modern map underneath.
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Shown on 3 historical map sheets, the earliest the 1841 "Scotland (Southern part). XIII" (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries).
The Department's description
Exterior description and setting
Largely plain, two storey double-fronted rendered terrace house of probable mid to later 19th century construction, now with PVC windows and doors. The property is set on the east side of Main Street, Ballywalter.
The front (W) elevation is symmetrical with a central PVC door, with a single PVC window to either side and three to the first floor. The façade is finished in plain painted render with simulated (painted) quoins.
To the rear is a single storey lean to kitchen/porch extension with PVC windows and door. On either side of this, to the main house, is a single PVC window, with three to the first floor. To the far left on the ground floor is a small shed-like extension.
Pitched roof with Bangor blue slates and two rendered chimney stacks. Cast iron rw goods. The facade is finished in lined render and painted.
Historical information
A terrace is shown on the this site on the OS map of 1834. In 1837 the Ordnance Survey Memoirs Ballywalter was described as having ‘cottages all built of stone, and, with few exceptions, but 1 storey in height...many of them slated...plastered and whitewashed’. It is probable that this terrace was originally mainly one storey and that this house was either heightened, or newly built, in the mid to later 19th century.
References- Primary sources
1 PRONI OS/6/3/12/1 OS maps, Down 12, 1834
2 PRONI VAL/1B/39 First valuation, Ballywalter, c.1834-38
3 'Ordnance Survey Memoirs of Ireland Vol.7: Parishes of County Down II', ed. Angelique Day and Patrick McWilliams
(QUB 1991), pp.16-18 [1837]
4 PRONI VAL/1D/3/4 Valuation plan, Ballywalter, c.1838
5 PRONI VAL/2B/3/9 Second valuation, Ballywalter, c.1859
6 PRONI VAL/2D/3/10 Valuation town plan, Ballywalter, 1859
7 PRONI OS/6/3/12/2 OS maps, Down 12, 1860
8 PRONI VAL/12B/23/6a-f Annual valuation revision books, Ballywalter, 1866-1929
9 PRONI VAL/12E/84/1 Valuation plan, Ballywalter, 1902-35
Secondary sources
1 Derek Patton, "The Village of Ballywalter- A brief history" in 'Journal of the Upper Ards Historical Society' No.14 (1990),
pp.10-15. [This article contains several photographs of Ballywalter c.1910, but no
references are given.]
2 A.J. Hughes and R.J. Hanna, 'Place-Names of Northern Ireland Vol. Two, County Down II- The Ards', (QUB, 1992) pp.66-68
Criteria for listing: architectural interest
Not listed
Criteria for listing: historic interest
Not listed
Evaluation
Largely plain, two storey double-fronted rendered 'terrace' house of probable mid to later 19th century construction, now with PVC windows and doors.
Nearby in the register
- 11 Main StreetHouseunder 1 mi
- 7 Main StreetHouseunder 1 mi
- 13 Main StreetHouse - Terraceunder 1 mi
- 5 Main StreetHouseunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.