Historic Buildings Record · Northern Ireland
11 Court Street
Newtownards, Ards and North Down, Northern Ireland
The record
- Designation
- Record only (not listed)
- Grade
- Record Only
- Type
- Demolished
- Date of construction
- 1840 - 1859
- Address
- 11 Court Street, Newtownards, Co. Down, BT23 3NX
- Townland
- Newtownards
- Council
- Ards and North Down
- Country
- Northern Ireland
- Coordinates
- 54.59139, -5.69612
- Date of survey
- 09 September 1998
- HB reference
- HB24/13/018
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Shown on 4 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, near the W end of the S side of Court Street, of former two storey terrace house. The house was probably constructed in the 1840s and had an ‘Ards’ doorway, sash windows and a slated gabled roof, but was demolished some time between 1972 and 1978. The site is now partly taken up with a small, single storey, flat roofed shop, constructed in 1978.
First Survey Report.
'2 storey house. Roof slated. Chimneys rendered. Wall rendered, lined and painted. Bevel base. 3 first floor double/hung windows, Georgian panes. Gd floor has lintolled coachway with sheeted door. Then Ards doorway with 5 course archivolt and keystone on blocked pillasters, plain fanlight and pannelled door and double/hung window as above.
Condition fair. Frontage about 25 feet.'
Historical information
Court Street appears to have been laid out in the 1840s, taking its name from the fact that the near by medieval priory served a court house between 1817 and 1850. The revised OS map of 1858 shows that the south side had been completely developed by this date, with a long unbroken terrace stretching along the entire length and including the house formerly on this site. The house on this site appears to have occupied when first surveyed in October 1972, but was demolished at some point prior to 1978, when the small, flat roofed shop was built on part of the site.
For more historical information on Court Street see ref HB24/13/41.
References- Primary sources
1 PRONI D.654 Londonderry Papers [This collection contains many documents relating to the development of Newtownards.]
2 PRONI OS Maps 1st ed. 1834, Co. Down 6.
3 PRONI OS Maps 1st rev. 1858-60, Co. Down 6.
4 Ordnance Survey Memoirs of Ireland Vol.7: Parishes of County Down II, ed. Angelique Day and Patrick McWilliams (QUB 1991), pp.105-106.
5 PRONI 2nd (‘Griffith’s’) valuation, Newtownards parish, Newtownards 1863. [The town plan to accompany the 2nd valuation does not appear to be held at PRONI thus making it difficult to match the information contained within the written record with actual buildings.]
6 UFTM WAG 944 W.A. Green Collection- Photograph of the old priory and Court Street, c.1910.
Secondary sources
1 Trevor McCavery 'Newtown: a history of Newtownards' (Dundonald 1994), pp.35, 80, 117, 146, 159, 190.
Criteria for listing: architectural interest
Not listed
Criteria for listing: historic interest
Not listed
Evaluation
Site of former two storey house of 1840s origin, demolished some time between 1972 and 1978 with site now partly taken up with a small modern shop.
Nearby in the register
- 7 Court StreetHouseunder 1 mi
- 15 Court StreetShopunder 1 mi
- 1-5 Court Street & 34 South StreetDemolishedunder 1 mi
- 4-8 Court StreetShop - Terraceunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.