Historic Buildings Record · Northern Ireland
8 Loughries Road
Loughriscouse, Ards and North Down, Northern Ireland
The record
- Designation
- Record only (not listed)
- Grade
- Record Only
- Type
- House
- Date of construction
- 1820 - 1839
- Address
- 8 Loughries Road, Loughriscouse, Newtownards, Co Down, BT23 3RN
- Townland
- Loughriscouse
- Council
- Ards and North Down
- Country
- Northern Ireland
- Coordinates
- 54.58613, -5.64242
- Date of survey
- 04 February 1998
- HB reference
- HB24/08/013
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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
Remains of a former two storey farm house roughly 1km N of the small hamlet of Loughries. Much of this house has now been demolished with only the rubble walls of the ground floor section still standing. Most of the openings are now blocked on the S and E facades, though some remain on the N elevation.
Attached to the W side of this former house is a rubble built gabled barn/outbuilding which is in poor condition but still retains much of its openings and its slated roof.
Historical information
A building appears on this site on the OS Map of 1834. The original survey of this house (carried out in April 1973) noted that there was an inscribed stone on the N face which read ‘Built by H. Ferguson AD 1821’. In recent times this house has been partly demolished due to its dangerous condition. A modern replacement dwelling has been built just to the S of the former house.
References- Primary sources
1 PRONI Ordnance Survey Maps, 1st Edition, 1834, Down 6.
2 PRONI VAL 1B/34 1st valuation, Newtownards, c.1835.
3 PRONI Ordnance Survey Maps, 1st Revision, 1860, Down 6.
4 PRONI 2nd valuation, Newtownards, c.1861.
Criteria for listing: architectural interest
Not listed
Criteria for listing: historic interest
Not listed
Evaluation
Former two storey farmhouse, probably built in 1821, now mainly demolished with only the dilapidated shell of the ground floor still standing.
Nearby in the register
- Ballyblack LodgeHouseunder 1 mi
- 51 Ballyreagh RoadHouseunder 1 mi
- ’Swiss Cottage’Houseunder 1 mi
- HillvilleHouseunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.