60-62 Mountstewart Road

The Department's description

Exterior description and setting

Long picturesque single storey rubble-built pair of estate workers' dwellings, (now converted to a single property), of c.1860s with gabled porches decorative barges and moulded dripstones. The building is one of a small collection of similar dwellings set on the north side of the Mountstewart Road close to the Mount Stewart demesne, roughly three miles north west of Greyabbey.

Main roof pitched with large overhang at gable ends and porches. Decorative barge boards to gable eaves. Bangor blue slates to main house, porches and extension with two small brick chimney stacks to main house. Two Velux windows to front elevation of main roof and two to extension roof. PVC rw goods.

The front S elevation has left of centre shallow gabled porch with unusual alternate (possibly granite) ‘quoins’, decorative barges and finial. Front gable of porch has timber sheeted door with brick filled semicircular arched recess above, with rectangular stone plaque also in arch.

To left of porch is three light casement window with ogee arch head to frames and diamond pattern leaded lights. Plain label moulding over window with slate facing to lintel. Two similar windows to right of porch. To the right of these is another porch, similar to before, but with small oriel window where the door (to former No.62) once was. Window to right of porch same as those to left.

Each gable end has two light casement attic window, similar in style to those at front.

Rear has a large two level pitched roofed extension with large modern windows with a large PVC conservatory attached to the W side of extension.

Historical information

According to the owner of near by No[s].48-50, these houses and their largely similar neighbours were constructed c.1860s, by the Mount Stewart estate, probably as estate workers' dwellings. It is uncertain when both houses were amalgamated to form the present single dwelling, but the large extension to the rear appears to have been added relatively recently [?c.1990].

References- Primary sources
1 PRONI OS/6/3/11/2 OS maps, Down 11, 1860
2 PRONI VAL/12B/23/16a-f Annual valuation revision books, Greyabbey, 1866-1930
3 PRONI OS/6/3/11/3 OS maps, Down 11, 1901

Secondary sources
1 Anne Casement, 'Mount Stewart Landscape Study' (The National Trust Northern Ireland Region, 1995)

Criteria for listing: architectural interest

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Criteria for listing: historic interest

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Evaluation

Long picturesque single storey rubble-built pair of estate workers' dwellings of c.1860s, (now converted to a single property), with gabled porches decorative barges, moulded dripstones and a large modern extension to the rear. The building is one of a small collection of similar dwellings close to the northern edge of the Mount Stewart demesne.