Historic Buildings Record · Northern Ireland
4 Shore Road
Ballymacruise, Ards and North Down, Northern Ireland
The record
- Designation
- Record only (not listed)
- Grade
- Record Only
- Type
- House
- Date of construction
- 1820 - 1839
- Address
- 4 Shore Road, Ballymacruise, Millisle, Newtownards, Co. Down, BT22 2BT
- Townland
- Ballymacruise
- Council
- Ards and North Down
- Country
- Northern Ireland
- Coordinates
- 54.60883, -5.52841
- Date of survey
- 04 March 1998
- HB reference
- HB24/05/043
Slide toward Today to fade the historical sheet and see the modern map underneath.
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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
Small single storey gabled house (the E part of a short single storey block) at the northern edge of Shore Road.
Front N facade has a timber sheeted door to the far right with three sash windows (with ‘Georgian’ panes), to the left.
The E gable has a small modern window to the left.
To the rear is a small lean to tiny kitchen extension, with a modern door and window on its E face. To the left of the extension (on the main house) is a modern window.
The facade is finished in plain render.
The roof is pitched and covered in corrugated ‘iron’ with two small rendered chimney stacks. PVC rw goods. Low rendered curving wall to front. High rendered wall to rear enclosing small yard.
Historical information
This house is shown on the OS Maps of 1833/4 and 1858-60, and is probably one of the 67 1-storey houses in the village noted in the OS Memoirs of c.1832-4.
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, Co. Down 7.
3 Ordnance Survey Memoirs of Ireland Vol.7: Parishes of County Down II, ed. Angelique Day and Patrick McWilliams (QUB 1991), p. 50.
4 PRONI Ordnance Survey Maps 1st Revision 1858-60, Co. 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 W.A. Green Collection WAG 3485 Photograph of the old flour mill from the shore. [Also shows cottages on Shore Road.]
8 Photographs of Shore Road Millisle in the early twentieth century reprinted in Grace Seymour 'Echoes of Millisle and district' (Rathfriland ?c.1983), pp.26-30 etc.
Criteria for listing: architectural interest
Not listed
Criteria for listing: historic interest
Not listed
Evaluation
Small plain single storey dwelling of probable pre 1834 origin, now with a corrugated ‘iron’ roof.
Nearby in the register
- The Mill HouseHouseunder 1 mi
- 31 Main StreetShopunder 1 mi
- 'First and Last'Public Houseunder 1 mi
- 43 Main StreetDemolishedunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.