Historic Buildings Record · Northern Ireland
8 Church Street
Greyabbey, Ards and North Down, Northern Ireland
The record
- Designation
- Listed building, Grade B2
- Grade
- B2
- Type
- House
- Date of listing
- 12 April 1990
- Date of construction
- 1820 - 1839
- Address
- 8 Church Street, Greyabbey, Newtownards, Co. Down, BT22 2NQ
- Townland
- Greyabbey
- Council
- Ards and North Down
- Country
- Northern Ireland
- Coordinates
- 54.53779, -5.55471
- Date of survey
- 27 November 1997
- HB reference
- HB24/04/088 B
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Shown on 5 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
Single storey 'semi-detached' vernacular house of possible pre 1834 construction, now with concrete pan tile roof and gabled return to rear. The property is set on the NE side of Church Street, Greyabbey.
Entire house finished in unpainted roughcast render with pan tiles to the pitched roof. Two small rendered chimney stacks to main roof. PVC rw goods.
The front (SW) elevation is asymmetrical and has a door to the far left with two widely spaced sash windows with Georgian panes to the right.
The SE gable is blank.
There is a return to the rear with modern timber windows made to resemble sash windows.
Low, partly rendered rubble wall in front of houses.
Historical information
There are buildings shown on this general site on the OS map of 1834, but it is difficult to tell whether they correspond exactly with the siting of the houses we see today. Thus, while it is possible that these houses originally date from the early nineteenth century (at least), it is difficult to be certain. Certainly their overall proportion suggests that they may belong to the large class of ‘ground floor’ houses in the village referred to in the OS Memoirs of c.1835.
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
Secondary sources
1 Bob Trayte, "The Greyabbey and village" in 'Journal of the Upper Ards Historical Society' No.16 (1992), pp.2-4
Criteria for listing: architectural interest
B. Proportion
H-. Alterations detracting from building
J. Setting
K. Group value
Criteria for listing: historic interest
X. Local Interest
Evaluation
Single storey 'semi-detached' vernacular house of possible pre 1834 construction, now with pan tile roof and gabled return to rear.
Nearby in the register
- 6 Church StreetHouseunder 1 mi
- 1-9 Church StreetHouse - Terraceunder 1 mi
- 4 Church StreetHouseunder 1 mi
- 2 Church StreetHouseunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.