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33 Upper Gransha Road

Gransha, Ards and North Down, Northern Ireland

The record

Designation
Record only (not listed)
Grade
Record Only
Type
Demolished
Date of construction
1840 - 1859
Address
33 Upper Gransha Road, Gransha, Newtownards, Co Down, BT23 ?
Townland
Gransha
Council
Ards and North Down
Country
Northern Ireland
Coordinates
54.62364, -5.62616
Date of survey
16 June 1998
HB reference
HB24/09/026

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David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries

Shown on 3 historical map sheets, the earliest the 1831 "Scotland southern." (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries).

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The Department's description

Exterior description and setting

Site (on the W side of the Upper Gransha Road c.3.5 miles NE of Newtownards), of former single storey vernacular house, now demolished.

Description from 1st Survey card " Single/sty cottage. Roof slated, gable ends. Brick chimneys. Walls rubble, rendered and white washed. Front has window - door - window - door - window. Windows D/H horiz astragals. Doors sheeted. R/H door also half door."

Historical information

A building is shown on this site on the revised OS Map of 1858-60, but not that of 1834, suggesting that the building formerly present dated to between these dates.

References- Primary sources
1 PRONI OS Map, 1st rev. 1858-60, Down 6.
2 PRONI 2nd valuation, Bangor, c.1863.

Criteria for listing: architectural interest

Not listed

Criteria for listing: historic interest

Not listed

Evaluation

Site of former single storey vernacular house, probably built c.1840, demolished in recent times.

Nearby in the register

Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.

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