10 Main Street

The Department's description

Exterior description and setting

Relatively small one and a half storey terrace house of c.1890 with gabled half dormers and moulded window surrounds, possibly a remodelling of an older dwelling. The property is set within a mixed terrace on the NW side of Main Street, Greyabbey.

Front facade finished in rough cast with plain moulded quoins. The gabled roof is slated and has a single centred yellow brick chimney stack; barges on gables match moulding around windows.

The front SE elevation is asymmetrical and has a timber panelled door, with plain fanlight, to left, all encased with plain pilasters, lintel frieze and cornice. To the left of doorway are three sash windows with simple moulded surrounds. To upper floor are two similar windows set in gabled half dormers. Cill course to upper floor windows incorporates cast iron ogee gutter and three short (square) gutters, run from another ogee gutter eaves course, to this.

NE gable blank and rendered. No access to rear.

Historical information

On the OS map of 1834 this site is partly taken up by the SW end of a terrace. With its gabled half dormers this house is probably late Victorian, and shows some similarities with its detached neighbour to the NE, (which was built around 1887); however the irregular arrangement of the openings to the front suggest this building may represent a remodelling of a older house..

References- Primary sources
1 PRONI OS/6/3/11/1 OS maps, Down 11, 1834
2 'Ordnance Survey Memoirs of Ireland Vol.7: Parishes of County Down II', ed. Angelique Day and Patrick McWilliams (QUB 1991), pp.67-72 [1834]
3 PRONI VAL/1B/33 1st valuation, Greyabbey, c.1834-38
4 PRONI VAL/1D/3/17 Valuation plan, Greyabbey, c.1838
5 PRONI VAL/2B/3/4 Second valuation, Greyabbey, c.1859
6 PRONI VAL/2D/3/10 Second valuation plan, Greyabbey, 1859
7 PRONI VAL/2B/3/4 Second valuation, Greyabbey, c.1859
8 PRONI VAL/2D/3/ Second valuation plan, Greyabbey, 1859
9 PRONI OS/6/3/11/2 OS maps, Down 11, 1860
10 PRONI VAL/12B/23/16a-f Annual valuation revision books, Greyabbey, 1866-1930
11 PRONI VAL/12E/99/1 Valuation plan, Greyabbey, 1906-35
12 UFTM W.A. Green Collection WAG 3038 Photograph of Main Street Greyabbey looking south west

Criteria for listing: architectural interest

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Criteria for listing: historic interest

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Evaluation

Relatively small one and a half storey 'terrace' house of c.1890 with gabled half dormers and moulded window surrounds, possibly a remodelling of an older dwelling.