Historic Buildings Record · Northern Ireland
Dry Closet,
Ballymacreelly, Ards and North Down, Northern Ireland
The record
- Designation
- Listed building, Grade B2
- Grade
- B2
- Type
- Closet
- Date of listing
- 4 March 1977
- Date of construction
- 1820 - 1839
- Address
- Dry Closet,, Holly Park, 37 Holly Park Road, Ballymacreelly, Killinchy, Newtownards, Co Down, BT23 6SN
- Townland
- Ballymacreelly
- Council
- Ards and North Down
- Country
- Northern Ireland
- Coordinates
- 54.45743, -5.69797
- Date of survey
- 04 August 1998
- HB reference
- HB24/17/013
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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
Dry closet situated at the edge of a wood to the rear (N) of Holly Park house, to the W of the Holly Park Road, roughly one mile SW of the village of Killinchy.
The building measures roughly 3.5m x 2m and is constructed of random rubble with a Bangor blue slated gabled roof. To the right on the N facade is a timber sheeted door and, on the E gable is a crude pointed arch window with brick dressings and a recent looking frame (without glass).
For description of Holly Park house see ref. HB24/17/012.
Historical information
Holly Park house probably dates from the 18th century but this dry closet is not shown on any of the OS map of the 1800s, nor the most up to date OS map!. Thus, without expert analysis of the fabric of this building, it is impossible to be certain as to its age; it could neither be as old as Holly Park House itself, or more recent.
References- Primary sources
1 PRONI OS maps 1st ed. 1834, Co. Down 17.
2 PRONI OS maps 1st rev. 1859-60, Co. Down 17.
3 PRONI OS maps, 3rd ed. 1921.
Criteria for listing: architectural interest
A. Style
D. Plan Form
H+. Alterations enhancing the building
I. Quality and survival of Interior
K. Group value
Criteria for listing: historic interest
X. Local Interest
Z. Rarity
Evaluation
Uncommon remaining example of a simple, rubble built, dry closet of indeterminate age. It has group value with Holly Park house.
Nearby in the register
- Holly ParkHouseunder 1 mi
- 35 Thorny Hill RoadHouseunder 1 mi
- AshvilleHouseunder 1 mi
- 55 Derryboy RoadHouseunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.