Historic Buildings Record · Northern Ireland
13 Main Street
Greyabbey, Ards and North Down, Northern Ireland
The record
- Designation
- Listed building, Grade B2
- Grade
- B2
- Type
- House
- Date of listing
- 20 December 1976
- Date of construction
- 1860 - 1879
- Address
- 13 Main Street, Greyabbey, Newtownards, Co. Down, BT22 2NE
- Townland
- Greyabbey
- Council
- Ards and North Down
- Country
- Northern Ireland
- Coordinates
- 54.53518, -5.56013
- Date of survey
- 27 November 1997
- HB reference
- HB24/04/080 C
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Shown on 3 historical map sheets, the earliest the 1854 "Ireland." (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries).
The Department's description
Exterior description and setting
Plain two storey, terrace house of c.1865 set on the SE side of Main Street.
The front facade is finished in lined render, the rear in rough cast. The main roof is covered with Bangor blue slates and two yellow brick chimneys (one shared with No.11). Mixture of cast iron and PVC rw goods.
The front (SE) elevation is asymmetrical and has a slightly right of centre timber panelled door with plain fanlight. To the right of this is a very large flat arch coach door with plain sheeted double timber doors with raised surround and cornice. To the left of the entrance door is a sash window with Georgian panes with three similar windows to the first floor.
The rear of the main house has two sash windows, with Georgian panes to the window to the far right and margins to the window to the left of this. To the far right (above the flat arch) is a modern looking casement bathroom window.
To the rear is a large single storey flat roof extension with modern windows. This extension is sandwiched between a gabled former outbuilding, which now contains the glazed entrance door to the kitchen extension.
Historical information
The OS maps of 1834 and c.1860 show a smaller building roughly on the site of No.11a and party on the site of No.11, so it is likely that Nos.11 and 13 are post 1860 in date.
A photograph of Main Street dating from c.1920 shows that there was what appears to be a pediment above the large coach arch to No.13.
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
H-. Alterations detracting from building
K. Group value
Criteria for listing: historic interest
X. Local Interest
Evaluation
Plain two storey, terrace house of c.1865 with large carriage doorway.
Nearby in the register
- 11 Main StreetHouseunder 1 mi
- RUC StationPolice Stationunder 1 mi
- 11A Main StreetShopunder 1 mi
- 17 Main StreetHealth Centreunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.