Historic Building Details

HB Ref No:
HB24/02/039

Address :
27 Ballygelagh Road Halftown Ballygelagh Kirkistown Newtownards Co. Down BT22 1JG

Townland:
Ballygelagh

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Survey 2:
Record Only

Date of Listing:

Date of De-listing:

Current Use:
Demolished

Former Use
House

Conservation Area:
No

Industrial Archaeology:
No

Vernacular:
No

Thatched:
No

Monument:
No

Derelict:
Demolished

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OS Map No:
188/5

IG Ref:
J6228 5765

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Owner Category

Private

Exterior Description And Setting

Site (on the side of the Ballygelagh Road south of Kirkistown) of former two storey house of perhaps c.1870s with formal front façade and decorated door surround. The building was demolished in 1995, with only various gabled outbuildings surrounding the grass covered ground where it once stood. Description from 1st Survey "2/sty house with single/sty extension on L/H and single/sty projection at back. Roof asbestos slated, gabled ends. Yellow brick mld chimneys. 3 F/FL and 2 G/FL blocked window openings. Segmental arch head and decorated keystone. Walls rendered and lined. Central doorway with pilasters, lintol, cornice and blocking course. Decorated motifs on lintol, blocking course and frieze of pilasters. Door panelled and oblong fanlight blocked. Base course. Front 33ft."

Architects

Not Known

Historical Information

Building shown on this site on the OS Map of 1834 and c.1860, but the house on this site until recently may have dated from c.1870s. The building was demolished c.1995. References- Primary sources 1 PRONI Ordnance Survey Maps, 1st Edition, 1834, Co. Down 25. 2 PRONI VAL 1B/35 1st valuation, Ardkeen, c.1835. 3 PRONI Ordnance Survey Maps, 1st revision, 1860, Co. Down 25. 4 PRONI 2nd valuation, Ardkeen, c.1863.

Criteria for Listing

Architectural Interest

Not listed

Historic Interest

Not listed

Evaluation

Site of former house of possible later nineteenth century origin, demolished c.1995.

General Comments

Date of Survey

24 September 1997