Historic Buildings Record · Northern Ireland
88 Saintfield Road
Ballymacashen, Ards and North Down, Northern Ireland
The record
- Designation
- Record only (not listed)
- Grade
- Record Only
- Type
- Demolished
- Date of construction
- 1820 - 1839
- Address
- 88 Saintfield Road, Ballymacashen, Killinchy, Co Down, BT23 6RW
- Townland
- Ballymacashen
- Council
- Ards and North Down
- Country
- Northern Ireland
- Coordinates
- 54.47093, -5.73174
- Date of survey
- 08 July 1998
- HB reference
- HB24/17/027
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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 S side of the Saintfield Road c.1.5 miles W of the village of Killinchy) of former single storey thatched house, demolished c.1987.
First survey record: 'Single storey cottage. Roof thatched, gable ends. Chimneys rendered. Wall rendered and whitewashed. North front has 3 small double hung windows, no astragals. Sheeted door between windows 2 and 3 with 3 stone steps. Recent shed addition at left hand. Condition fair to poor. Front about 48 feet.'
Historical information
A building is shown on this site on the OS maps of 1834 and 1859-60, which probably corresponds to the dwelling standing here until recently. No mention of the property appears to occur in the first valuation records of c.1835, but he second valuation of c.1861 noted that the building contained two dwellings in possession of Isabella and Elizabeth McVeagh, who leased them from a Samuel Lowry.
Local residents state that the house was demolished c.1987.
References- Primary sources
1 PRONI D.2005/1/1-47 Lowry Family Estate Papers- Title deeds to lands in Ballymacashen 1741-1930.
2 PRONI OS maps 1st ed. 1834, Co. Down 16.
3 PRONI VAL 1B/335 p.33 (79) 1st valuation Killinchy parish, Ballymacashen td., c.1835.
4 PRONI OS maps 1st rev. 1859-60, Co. Down 16.
5 PRONI 2nd valuation Killinchy parish, Ballymacashen td., c.1861.
Criteria for listing: architectural interest
Not listed
Criteria for listing: historic interest
Not listed
Evaluation
Site of former single storey thatched house of probable pre 1834 origin, demolished c.1987.
Nearby in the register
- 89 Saintfield RoadHouseunder 1 mi
- 87 Saintfield RoadHouseunder 1 mi
- 86 Saintfield RoadDemolishedunder 1 mi
- Reformed Presbyterian ChurchChurchunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.