Historic Buildings Record · Northern Ireland
43 Main Street
Ballymacruise, Ards and North Down, Northern Ireland
The record
- Designation
- Record only (not listed)
- Grade
- Record Only
- Type
- Demolished
- Date of construction
- 1840 - 1859
- Address
- 43 Main Street, Ballymacruise, Millisle, Newtownards, Co. Down, BT22 2HR
- Townland
- Ballymacruise
- Council
- Ards and North Down
- Country
- Northern Ireland
- Coordinates
- 54.60751, -5.52878
- Date of survey
- 04 February 1998
- HB reference
- HB24/05/039
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 1831 "Scotland southern." (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries).
The Department's description
Exterior description and setting
Site of former single storey terraced house (on the E side of Main Street), demolished c.1992 with modern single storey shops now built on site.
Description from 1st Survey Card " Single sty house. Roof slated. Wall rendered, lined & painted white. Block painted quoins & base. 3 D/H windows, Georgian panes. Doorway between 2nd and 3rd windows. Sheeted door. Plain fanlight."
Historical information
A building is shown on this site on the OS Maps of 1833/4 and 1858-60. The single storey house which once occupied this ground until c.1992, may have been originally early nineteenth century (at least), and possibly one of Millisle’s 67 one storey dwellings noted in the OS Memoirs of c.1834. The present building was constructed soon after the demolition of the former house.
References- Primary sources
1 PRONI VAL 1B/32 Valuation records for the townland of Ballymacruise (Parish of Donaghadee) 1830s.
2 PRONI Ordnance Survey Maps 1st Edition 1833/4.
3 Ordnance Survey Memoirs of Ireland Vol.7: Parishes of County Down II, ed. Angelique Day and Patrick McWilliams (QUB1991), p. 50.
4 PRONI Ordnance Survey Maps 1st Revision 1858-60, Down 7.
5 PRONI ‘Griffith’s’ valuation for the townland of Ballymacruise (Parish of Donaghadee) 1863.
6 PRONI D.1167 Dunleath Papers. [The Mulhollands came into possession of much land in Millisle area in the 1840s, conceivably there may be leases relating to the above property within this collection.]
7 UFTM WAG 3040 Photograph of Main Street, Millisle c.1920.
8 Photographs of Main Street Millisle in the early twentieth century reprinted in Grace Seymour 'Echoes of Millisle and district' (Rathfriland ?c.1980), pp.26-30 etc..
Criteria for listing: architectural interest
Not listed
Criteria for listing: historic interest
Not listed
Evaluation
Site of former single storey house, of possible early nineteenth century origin, demolished c.1992.
Nearby in the register
- 24 Main StreetHouseunder 1 mi
- 'First and Last'Public Houseunder 1 mi
- 51-53 Main StreetHouseunder 1 mi
- Former Church SchoolChurchunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.