Historic Buildings Record · Northern Ireland
11A Main Street
Greyabbey, Ards and North Down, Northern Ireland
The record
- Designation
- Listed building, Grade B2
- Grade
- B2
- Type
- Shop
- Date of listing
- 20 December 1976
- Date of construction
- 1840 - 1859
- Address
- 11A Main Street, Greyabbey, Newtownards, Co. Down, BT22 2NE
- Townland
- Greyabbey
- Council
- Ards and North Down
- Country
- Northern Ireland
- Coordinates
- 54.53505, -5.56031
- Date of survey
- 27 November 1997
- HB reference
- HB24/04/080 A
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 1794 "Sheet 55. (Cary's England, Wales, and Scotland)." (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries).
The Department's description
Exterior description and setting
Small, low, two storey terrace shop of possible mid 19th century construction, with recent shop front. The property is set on the SE side of Main Street, Greyabbey.
The main roof and return roof are both gabled and covered with Bangor blue slates. The front facade is finished in lined render, the rear return in rough cast. Cast iron rw goods.
The front (NW) elevation is asymmetrical. To the ground floor of the front is a recently installed, but traditional looking, shop front with a recessed glazed door with fanlight and sidelight, to the left, and a large multi pane adjoining shop window to the right. Projecting painted timber sign above shop front with raised gold lettering. To the first floor are two plain sash windows.
To the rear is a long two storey gabled return with various loft and window openings (part of this return belongs to No.11).
Historical information
The OS maps of 1834 and c.1860 show a building roughly on this site, though it is difficult to be certain.
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
A. Style
B. Proportion
C. Ornamentation
H-. Alterations detracting from building
K. Group value
Criteria for listing: historic interest
X. Local Interest
Evaluation
Small, low, two storey terrace shop of possible mid 19th century construction, with recent shop front.
Nearby in the register
- 7-9 Main StreetShopunder 1 mi
- 11 Main StreetHouseunder 1 mi
- 5 Main StreetShopunder 1 mi
- 13 Main StreetHouseunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.