Historic Buildings Record · Northern Ireland
Black Island
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
- Black Island, 158 Movilla Road, Loughriscouse, Newtownards, Co Down, BT23 3RL
- Townland
- Loughriscouse
- Council
- Ards and North Down
- Country
- Northern Ireland
- Coordinates
- 54.60692, -5.62140
- Date of survey
- 06 February 1998
- HB reference
- HB24/08/016
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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
Single storey gabled dwelling situated on a slight rise at the end of a laneway roughly 3 miles NE of Newtownards.
Front S facade has left of centre doorway with plain (now painted) stone surround and PVC door. To the left of the doorway is a window with modern frame and recent looking wooden shutters, with two similar windows to the right. At the end of each side of the front facade (i.e. attached to each gable) is a tall castellated wall with a doorway set within an arched recess on that to the W and a similar arched recess (without a doorway) on that to the E.
The E gable has a window (as front) to the left, with a small single storey lean to ‘shed’ attached to the right. The shed has a corrugated iron roof and a timber sheeted door to the N facade.
The W gable is blank.
The N (rear) facade has a window to the left, as front, with two more similar, but smaller, windows to the right of this. Attached to the far right is a large single storey flat roofed extension with PVC windows and door. Most of the centre and right of the rear facade merges into a long flat roofed dormer with large modern windows.
The entire facade is finished in rough cast.
The roof is pitched with concrete slates with two large Velux windows to the rear left, and two rendered chimney stacks (one of which is oddly placed on the slope of the roof). PVC rw goods.
Historical information
A building is shown on this site on the 1834 and c.1860 OS Maps, which probably corresponds to the house we see today. The castellated walls are probably later additions.
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
Single storey house of probable early nineteenth century origin (at least), now modernised with a large extension and flat roofed dormers to the rear.
Nearby in the register
- The RookeryHouseunder 1 mi
- 26 Loughries RoadHouseunder 1 mi
- 3 Drumawhey RoadHouse1 mi
- Brown's IslandHouse1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.