Historic Buildings Record · Northern Ireland
Presbyterian Manse
Ballymacruise, Ards and North Down, Northern Ireland
The record
- Designation
- Record only (not listed)
- Grade
- Record Only
- Type
- Demolished
- Date of construction
- 1860 - 1879
- Address
- Presbyterian Manse, 30 Main Street, Ballymacruise, Millisle, Newtownards, Co. Down, BT22 2HR
- Townland
- Ballymacruise
- Council
- Ards and North Down
- Country
- Northern Ireland
- Coordinates
- 54.60651, -5.52902
- Date of survey
- 04 March 1998
- HB reference
- HB24/05/036
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 1854 "Ireland." (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries).
The Department's description
Exterior description and setting
Site of former two storey manse house originally built in 1859/60 and demolished c.1982 with modern sheltered dwellings now on site.
Description from 1st Survey card "2/sty house. Roof slated, gable ends, plain barges on brackets. Chimneys yellow brick. Walls rendered, lined abd painted. Corbelled eaves. Vermic. Quoins, level base. East front has 3 F/FL & 2 Gr/FL D/H windows, horizon. Astragals, moulded architrave, decorated keystone. Central doorway now enclosed by projecting porch with shed roof & with glazed walls and flush panel door on RHS. Main doorway has segmental arch head, mld architrave, 4 pane fanlight, 2 pane sidelight & glazed & panelled door."
Historical information
The manse originally on this site was built in 1859/60 on land leased from Andrew Mulholland of Springvale. The building was demolished in c.1982.
References- Primary sources
1 PRONI Ordnance Survey Maps 1st Revision 1858-60, Down 7.
2 PRONI ‘Griffith’s’ valuation for the townland of Ballymacruise (Parish of Donaghadee) 1863
3 PRONI D.1167 Dunleath Papers. [The Mulhollands owned the land on which this manse was built, conceivably there may be leases relating to the property within this collection].
Secondary sources
1 Rev. T. Kilpatrick 'Millisle and Ballycopeland Presbyterian Chuch- a short history' (Newtownards, 1934), pp.41-43, 79.
2 Grace Seymour 'Echoes of Millisle and district' (Rathfriland ?c.1983), p.24.
Criteria for listing: architectural interest
Not listed
Criteria for listing: historic interest
Not listed
Evaluation
Site of former two storey manse built in 1859/60 and demolished c.1982
Nearby in the register
- Former Church SchoolChurchunder 1 mi
- St. Patrick’s C of I ChurchChurchunder 1 mi
- 51-53 Main StreetHouseunder 1 mi
- 43 Main StreetDemolishedunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.