Historic Building Details

HB Ref No:
HB24/03/023

Address :
’Old Life Boat House’, [?4A] Portavogie Road Ballyhalbert Newtownards Co Down BT22 1BU

Townland:
Ballyhalbert

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Survey 2:
Record Only

Date of Listing:

Date of De-listing:

Current Use:
House

Former Use
Boat house

Conservation Area:
No

Industrial Archaeology:
Yes

Vernacular:
No

Thatched:
No

Monument:
No

Derelict:
No

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OS Map No:
169/11

IG Ref:
J6290 6639

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Owner Category

Private

Exterior Description And Setting

Former long rectangular boat house set on the rocky shore line to the south of Ballyhalbert, now converted to a dwelling house with many multi pane timber windows, asbestos slate hipped roof, plain render, PVC gutters and down spouts, chimney etc. Nothing appears to remain of this building’s former existence except for the remnants of the stone slipway for the boat at the E gable, a gable which itself must have once incorporated a large (probably arched) doorway for the boat.

Architects

Not Known

Historical Information

A building is shown on this site and marked ‘Coast Guard Station’ on the OS Map of 1834, which, so the OS Memoirs noted, was staffed by ‘6 coastguard men and 1 chief officer’. Some later built dwellings just to the north of the former boat house are still known as ‘Coast Guard Cottages’. References- Primary sources 1 PRONI Ordnance Survey Maps, 1st Edition, 1834, Co. Down 18. 2 Ordnance Survey Memoirs of Ireland Vol.7: Parishes of County Down II, ed. Angelique Day and Patrick McWilliams (QUB 1991), p. 6. 3 PRONI VAL 1B/312 1st valuation, St. Andrews, c.1835. 4 PRONI Ordnance Survey Maps, 1st Revision, 1860, Co. Down 18. 5 PRONI 2nd valuation, St. Andrews, c.1863.

Criteria for Listing

Architectural Interest

Not listed

Historic Interest

Not listed

Evaluation

Former boat house of the early nineteenth century now converted to a dwelling house, with many new window and door openings created in the process.

General Comments

Date of Survey

16 September 1997