Historic Buildings Record · Northern Ireland
72 Movilla Road
Movilla, Ards and North Down, Northern Ireland
The record
- Designation
- Record only (not listed)
- Grade
- Record Only
- Type
- Demolished
- Date of construction
- 1820 - 1839
- Address
- 72 Movilla Road, Newtownards, Co Down, BT23 3RQ
- Townland
- Movilla
- Council
- Ards and North Down
- Country
- Northern Ireland
- Coordinates
- 54.59536, -5.66912
- Date of survey
- 10 June 1998
- HB reference
- HB24/09/018
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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 (on the N side of the Movilla Road on the eastern outskirts of Newtownards) of former single storey cottage, now demolished with a modern housing development on all sides.
Description from 1st Survey card " Single/storey cottage. Roof slated and rendered gable ends. Chimneys roughcast. Walls roughcast. 3 D/H windows horiz. astragals. Doorway between 2nd and 3rd window has projecting plain surround with mldg above lintel, door panelled. Adjacent outbuildings at back."
Historical information
A building is shown on this site on the OS map of 1834 and on that of 1858-60. The house was demolished fairly recently (?c.1990) and a modern estate now covers the general site.
The valuation records of 1834 do not refer to the building on this site, which (if a dwelling) was undoubtedly below rateable value.
References- Primary sources
1 PRONI VAL 1B/34 pp.30-31 1st valuation, Newtownards parish, Movilla Td., c.1836.
2 PRONI OS Maps 1st ed. 1834, Co. Down 6.
3 PRONI OS Maps 1st rev. 1858-60, Co. Down 6
4 PRONI 2nd (‘Griffith’s’) valuation 1863, Newtownards parish, Movilla Td.
Criteria for listing: architectural interest
Not listed
Criteria for listing: historic interest
Not listed
Evaluation
Site of small single storey house of possible pre 1834 origin, demolished some time after 1972 with modern housing estate now on and around the site itself.
Nearby in the register
- Movilla CemeteryGraveyardunder 1 mi
- Corry burial vaultMausoleumunder 1 mi
- Movilla AbbeyReligious Houseunder 1 mi
- Movilla Cemetery LodgeGates/ Screens/ Lodgesunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.