Historic Buildings Record · Northern Ireland
13 Main Street
Ballywalter, Ards and North Down, Northern Ireland
The record
- Designation
- Record only (not listed)
- Grade
- Record Only
- Type
- House - Terrace
- Date of listing
- 20 December 1976
- Date of delisting
- 3 July 2003
- Date of construction
- 1880 - 1899
- Address
- 13 Main Street, Ballywalter, Newtownards, Co. Down, BT22 2PQ
- Townland
- Ballywalter
- Council
- Ards and North Down
- Country
- Northern Ireland
- Coordinates
- 54.54266, -5.48401
- Date of survey
- 12 November 1997
- HB reference
- HB24/04/036 E
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 1841 "Scotland (Southern part). XIII" (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries).
The Department's description
Exterior description and setting
Small, plain, single fronted two storey terrace house of probable late 19th century construction, set on the east side of Main Street, Ballywalter.
The asymmetric front elevation faces W and has a panelled timber door to the left with plain fanlight. To the right of this is a sash window with horizontal astragals (2/2). Two similar windows to first floor.
At the rear there is large single storey lean to extension with modern windows and door, above this to the first floor of the main house there are two windows as front.
The gabled roof is slated and has a brick chimneystack to S (shared with no.11). Cast iron rw goods. Facade rendered 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
Small, plain two storey single-fronted terrace house of probable mid to later 19th century construction, with modern flat roofed extension to rear.
Nearby in the register
- 11 Main StreetHouseunder 1 mi
- 9 Main StreetHouseunder 1 mi
- 7 Main StreetHouseunder 1 mi
- 5 Main StreetHouseunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.