Historic Buildings Record · Northern Ireland
Entrance gateway to Carrowdore Castle
Ballyrawer, Ards and North Down, Northern Ireland
The record
- Designation
- Listed building, Grade B2
- Grade
- B2
- Type
- Gates/ Screens/ Lodges
- Date of listing
- 20 December 1976
- Date of construction
- 1800 - 1819
- Address
- Entrance gateway to Carrowdore Castle, Carrowdore Castle, Carrowdore, Ballyrawer, Newtownards, Co Down, BT22 2JH
- Townland
- Ballyrawer
- Council
- Ards and North Down
- Country
- Northern Ireland
- Coordinates
- 54.58363, -5.55044
- Date of survey
- 09 March 1998
- HB reference
- HB24/05/003
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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
Symmetrical entrance gateway to the NW of Carrowdore Castle at the junction of the Abbey Road and the Woburn Road.
The gateway is constructed in random basalt rubble with red brick dressings to openings. In the centre is a tall semicircular carriage arch with a castellated parapet and a narrow castellated tower to either side with recessed cross motifs and mock arrow loops. Flanking are two semicircular arched pedestrian gates also with castellations. Each of these is joined to the remnants of what were once single storey rectangular one room ‘box’ sections with castellations, each of which had a single window opening to the front (NW), now blocked.
The rears of both ‘box’ sections have been largely demolished. Elements of rough cast to stone work still visible. Largely simple (and probably not original) low wrought iron gates to all entrances. Low curving castellated wall in front of gate screen.
This gateway is now in poor condition and appears to have been largely neglected in recent times.
Historical information
This gateway was built by Nicholas de La Cherois-Crommelin in c.1818 at the same time as the construction of Carrowdore castle. There were originally two small outer rooms flanking the gates, but these have now been largely demolished.
References- Primary sources
1 PRONI Ordnance Survey Maps 1st Edition 1833/4, Down 7.
2. Ordnance Survey Memoirs of Ireland Vol.7: Parishes of County Down II, ed. Angelique Day and Patrick McWilliams (QUB 1991), p. 49.
3 PRONI CR1/50 Correspondence relating to the parish of Carrowdore 1837-1874.
4 PRONI Ordnance Survey Maps 1st Revision 1858-60, Down 7.
Secondary sources
1 'Archaeological Survey of County Down' (1966), pp.355-56 (with plates).
2 J.A.K. Dean 'The Gate lodges of Ulster- a gazetteer' (UAHS 1994), p.67.
3 Susan E. Pack Beresford 'Christ Church Carrowdore' (1994), pp.42-45.
4 Grace Seymour 'Echoes of Millisle and District' (Rathfriland ?c.1980), pp.139-140.
Criteria for listing: architectural interest
A. Style
B. Proportion
C. Ornamentation
H-. Alterations detracting from building
J. Setting
K. Group value
Criteria for listing: historic interest
X. Local Interest
Nearby in the register
- West gate lodgeDemolishedunder 1 mi
- Carrowdore Castle,Country Houseunder 1 mi
- Former school houseHouseunder 1 mi
- 13 Abbey RoadHouseunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.