Historic Buildings Record · Northern Ireland
[?23] Ballydorn Road
Ballydorn, Ards and North Down, Northern Ireland
The record
- Designation
- Record only (not listed)
- Grade
- Record Only
- Type
- Demolished
- Date of construction
- 1820 - 1839
- Address
- [?23] Ballydorn Road, Ballydorn, Killinchy, Co Down, BT23 6QB
- Townland
- Ballydorn
- Council
- Ards and North Down
- Country
- Northern Ireland
- Coordinates
- 54.48981, -5.66155
- Date of survey
- 07 July 1998
- HB reference
- HB24/17/074
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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 Ballydorn Road c.2 miles NE of Killinchy) of former single storey thatched cottage, now demolished. The site of the house is surrounded by many outbuildings some of which appear to still in use.
First Survey Record: Single storey cottage. Roof thatched, gable ends with former single storey extension on right hand gable. Chimneys brick. Walls rendered on stone rubble and white washed. West front has three single and one 2-light double hung windows. All have coved angles to top sash. Single windows have no astragals. 2-light windows have square panes. Doorway between windows 3 and 4, has margined paned fanlight and glazed and panelled door.
Condition poorish. Front about 60 feet. Front enclosed garden and adjacent farm buildings.
Historical information
A building is shown on this site on the OS maps of 1834 and that of 1859-60. The first valuation records of c.1835 state that the dwelling was in possession of a Hamilton Patton. Hamilton Patton (?or a relative of the same name) was [still] living in the house at the time of the second valuation survey in c.1861, which also notes that he leased it from a James Ferguson.
The building was demolished some time after January 1972.
References- Primary sources
1 PRONI OS maps 1st ed. 1834, Co. Down 17.
2 PRONI VAL 1B/335 pp.74 1st valuation Killinchy parish, Ballydorn td, c.1835.
3 PRONI OS Maps 1st rev. 1859-60, Co. Down 17.
4 PRONI 2nd valuation, Killinchy parish, Ballydorn td., c.1861.
Criteria for listing: architectural interest
Not listed
Criteria for listing: historic interest
Not listed
Evaluation
Site of former single storey thatched dwelling of possible pre 1834 origin, now demolished.
Nearby in the register
- 93 Ballydorn RoadDemolishedunder 1 mi
- 43 Ballydorn RoadDemolishedunder 1 mi
- Former Ardmillan Primary SchoolHouseunder 1 mi
- 63 Ballydorn RoadHouseunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.