94 Mountstewart Road

The Department's description

Exterior description and setting

Two storey late Victorian gabled farmhouse of c.1880s-90s with moulded surrounds to openings, set at the end of a short lane just off the Mountstewart Road, roughly 2 miles north of Greyabbey.

Entire house finished in rough cast render with chamfered quoins to front and gables. Bangor blue slates to all roofs with two brick chimney stacks to the gables of the main house and one to the gable of the return. PVC rw goods. Large farm buildings to E and N.

The front S elevation is symmetrical and has central timber glazed door and plain fanlight all encased by fluted pilasters, frieze lintel, cornice and curved blocking course. To left of doorway is modern two pane timber window with simple moulded surround and keystone, with similar window to right. First floor has a set of paired windows to left and right with a single window in the centre all set within segmental arch headed openings. The window frames are similar to the ground floor with similar simple moulding and keystone.

W gable has a window to the left on the ground floor, as ground floor front with a similar, but smaller, window directly above.

E gable has a small store, with mono pitched roof, attached to the ground floor (the other side of this store is attached to a long farm building which runs at a right angle to the house), and a window (as W gable) to right on first floor.

The rear has a full height gabled return with various modern timber windows, with smooth cement surrounds, and a tall but narrow lean to extension attached to its gable. The rear of the main house has a ground floor window, as ground floor front but with simple smooth cement surround, to left of return. To the right of the return on the main house is a timber and glazed rear door.

On the opposite side of the Mountstewart Road from this property, is a large modernised gabled dwelling known as ‘Ballygrangee House’ which appears to be possibly older than this property, and may have been locally important at one time.

Historical information

A building, with return, is shown on this site on the OS map of 1834 along with the line of [presumably] farm buildings to the east side. The house we see today, with its segmental arch heads to upper floor windows and window and door surrounds, appears, however, to date from the latter half of the nineteenth century, probably the 1880s or 1890s.

References- Primary sources
1 PRONI OS/6/3/11/1 OS maps, Down 11, 1834
2 PRONI VAL/1B/33 First valuation, c.1834-38
3 PRONI VAL/2B/3/4 Second valuation, Greyabbey, c.1859
4 PRONI OS/6/3/11/2 OS maps, Down 11, 1860
5 PRONI VAL/12B/23/16a-f Annual valuation revision books, Greyabbey, 1866-1930

Criteria for listing: architectural interest

Not listed

Criteria for listing: historic interest

Not listed

Evaluation

Two storey gabled farmhouse of c.1880s-90s with some characteristic late Victorian mouldings to front facade openings.

General comments

On the opposite side of the Mountstewart Road from this property, is a large ‘modernised’ gabled dwelling known as ‘Ballygrangee House’ which appears to be possibly older than this property, and may have been locally important at one time. It is also shown on the 1834 map, with a small plantation to the east of the property.