Historic Buildings Record · Northern Ireland
West gate lodge
Ballyrawer, Ards and North Down, Northern Ireland
The record
- Designation
- Record only (not listed)
- Grade
- Record Only
- Type
- Demolished
- Date of construction
- 1800 - 1819
- Address
- West gate lodge, Carrowdore Castle, Abbey Road, Ballyrawer, Carrowdore, Newtownards, Co Down, BT22 2JH
- Townland
- Ballyrawer
- Council
- Ards and North Down
- Country
- Northern Ireland
- Coordinates
- 54.57900, -5.55033
- Date of survey
- 09 March 1998
- HB reference
- HB24/05/065
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
Site of former Upper, Town or Barbican gate lodge, built in 1818 (at the same time as the present Carrowdore Castle) and demolished in 1992, with modern gate screen a short distance to the W.
The 1994 UAHS The Gate Lodges of Ulster- A Gazetteer described this building as a ‘delightful folly entrance sited as a focus at the end of Main Street...symmetrical Romantic in similar materials to the lower lodge [random rubble basalt with red brick dressings to openings] Here the central carriage archway had double segmental heads which carried a room over with crow-stepped gables front and back. To each corner slender square towers rising two storeys and decorated with more arrowloops. This watchroom, with a Georgian squared sash window back and front, can only be approached by ladder from one of the two ground floor rooms. Each of these in the form of a lean to with their own crow-stepped gables and little square corner turrets’.
Historical information
The gate lodge formerly on this site was built in 1818 by Nicholas Delacherois Crommelin, at the same time as the building of the present Carrowdore Castle. It was demolished in 1992.
References- Primary sources
1 PRONI VAL 1B/32 Valuation records for the townland of Ballyrawer (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. 49.
4 PRONI CR1/50 Correspondence relating to the parish of Carrowdore 1837-1874.
5 PRONI Ordnance Survey Maps 1st Revision 1858-60, Co. Down 7.
6 PRONI ‘Griffith’s’ valuation for the townland of Ballyrawer (Parish of Donaghadee) 1863.
7 UFTM W.A. Green Collection WAG 1855 The Barbican, Carrowdore Castle, c.1920.
Secondary sources
1 'Archaeological survey of County Down' (1966), pp.355-56 (with plate).
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.
Criteria for listing: architectural interest
Not listed
Criteria for listing: historic interest
Not listed
Evaluation
Site of former barbican gate lodge of c.1818, demolished c.1992.
Nearby in the register
- Former school houseHouseunder 1 mi
- Water PumpPumpunder 1 mi
- Carrowdore & Ballyfrenis Presbyterian ChurchChurchunder 1 mi
- Carrowdore Castle,Country Houseunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.