Historic Buildings Record · Northern Ireland
Culvert face and bridge
Springvale, Ards and North Down, Northern Ireland
The record
- Designation
- Listed building, Grade B2
- Grade
- B2
- Type
- Bridge
- Date of listing
- 20 March 2003
- Date of construction
- 1840 - 1859
- Address
- Culvert face and bridge, Ballywalter Park, Springvale, Ballywalter, Newtownards, Co. Down, BT22 2PP
- Townland
- Springvale
- Council
- Ards and North Down
- Country
- Northern Ireland
- Coordinates
- 54.53504, -5.49283
- Date of survey
- 11 November 1997
- HB reference
- HB24/04/096
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
Rubble built culvert face with partly blocked roughly 1m wide arch, built into an embankment a short distance to the west of the stables at Ballywalter Park, roughly half a mile south of Ballywalter.
The arch has a vermiculated keystone and three now rusted small iron bars project from the face. These bars may once have been part of the support for a grill covering the arch. A c.1.5m wide bridge has been constructed just to the west of the culvert face, with a rough dry jointed rubble bridge screen over a small arch. The bridge track is covered in grass.
Historical information
Whilst this culvert face shows some formality and may have been constructed at the same time as the laying out of the gardens at Ballywalter Park (c.1846-52), the bridge is much cruder and probably later.
References- Primary sources
1 PRONI OS/6/3/12/2 Ordnance Survey Maps, 1st Revision, 1860, Co. Down 12
Secondary sources
1 Lord Dunleath et al 'Ballywalter Park' (UAHS 1985).
2 Alistair Rowan, ‘Ballywalter Park, Co. Down- I, II’ in 'Country Life', vol.CXLI, No.3652, 2nd March 1967, pp.456-60: No.3653, 9th March 1967, pp.516-20.
3 J.A.K. Dean 'The Gate lodges of Ulster- a gazetteer', p.63.
Criteria for listing: architectural interest
C. Ornamentation
D. Plan Form
F. Structural System
J. Setting
K. Group value
Criteria for listing: historic interest
X. Local Interest
Evaluation
Rubble built culvert face with partly blocked roughly 1m wide arch, built into an embankment a short distance to the west of the stables at Ballywalter Park.
Nearby in the register
- StableyardStablesunder 1 mi
- Bridge on garden pathBridgeunder 1 mi
- The AlbanyEstate Related Structuresunder 1 mi
- Ballywalter Park House & garden wallingCountry Houseunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.