Historic Buildings Record · Northern Ireland
189 Ballywalter Road
Ballyhaskin, Ards and North Down, Northern Ireland
The record
- Designation
- Record only (not listed)
- Grade
- Record Only
- Type
- House
- Date of construction
- 1980 - 1999
- Address
- 189 Ballywalter Road, Ballyhaskin, Millisle, Newtownards, Co Down, BT22 2LY
- Townland
- Ballyhaskin
- Council
- Ards and North Down
- Country
- Northern Ireland
- Coordinates
- 54.58992, -5.50751
- Date of survey
- 12 March 1998
- HB reference
- HB24/05/011
Slide toward Today to fade the historical sheet and see the modern map underneath.
Shown on 2 historical map sheets, the earliest the 1941 "OS GSGS 3906 Scotland 1:25,000 (1940-1943)" (National Library of Scotland).
The Department's description
Exterior description and setting
Recently much extended and renovated single storey gabled house on the E side of the Ballywalter Road less than 2 miles S of Millisle.
The front of this house was originally the SW facade (facing the road), but this facade now has three small window openings and one large (modern) one all with PVC frames and modern cills. Until recently this facade had an entrance door and four small windows.
Both the SE and NW gables are blank.
The rear has been greatly extended in recent times and now sports a lean to section (which runs almost the entire length of the rear of the main house). Out of this lean to projects a long gabled return. The rear sections all have modern looking window openings with PVC frames. The house is entered on the left side of the SE facade of the return via a modern glazed door with large sidelight.
The entire facade is finished in rough cast render.
The roof of the original house is pitched and it and part of the lean to roof are covered in Bangor blue slates. The roof of the return has asbestos free slates. The roof of the original house has a single rendered chimney stack. PVC rw goods.
The original section of this house is probably quite old (at least early nineteenth century) and until recently maintained some semblance of its original look. However, the front facade has now been radically altered and the rear greatly extended, with the overall result that this dwelling is now bland and uninteresting.
Historical information
A building is shown on this site on the OS Maps of 1833/4 and 1858-60, which probably corresponds to the original (SW) section of the present dwelling. The changes to the former front facade and the extensions to the return to the rear are all post 1973.
References- Primary sources
1 PRONI VAL 1B/32 Valuation records for the townland of Ballyhaskin (Parish of Donaghadee) 1830s.
2 PRONI Ordnance Survey Maps 1st Edition 1833/4, Down 7.
3 PRONI Ordnance Survey Maps 1st Revision 1858-60, Down 7.
4 PRONI ‘Griffith’s’ valuation for the townland of Ballyhaskin (Parish of Donaghadee) 1863.
Criteria for listing: architectural interest
Not listed
Criteria for listing: historic interest
Not listed
Evaluation
Single storey house of probable early nineteenth century origin (at least) now much altered and extended.
Nearby in the register
- Millisle coastguard station housesHouse - Terraceunder 1 mi
- Woburn HouseOfficeunder 1 mi
- 27 Drumfad RoadHouseunder 1 mi
- Forest CottageDemolishedunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.