Historic Building Details

HB Ref No:
HB24/05/006

Address :
White Horse Inn 61-63 Main Street Carrowdore Millisle Newtownards Co Down BT22 2HN

Townland:
Carrowdore

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Survey 2:
Record Only

Date of Listing:

Date of De-listing:

Current Use:
Public House

Former Use
House

Conservation Area:
No

Industrial Archaeology:
No

Vernacular:
No

Thatched:
No

Monument:
No

Derelict:
No

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OS Map No:
149/3

IG Ref:
J5813 7245

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Owner Category

Commercial

Exterior Description And Setting

Long two storey gabled block (now a public house) on the SE side of Main Street, Carrowdore. Front NW facade has a left of centre timber sheeted door with large-ish ‘olde worlde’ timber multi pane window to the left. To the immediate right is another timber sheeted door and to the right of this are two windows as before. To the first floor are four small-ish windows now with PVC frames and inappropriate modern louvered shutters. Also to this floor are four internally illuminated projecting PVC pub signs. Laminated pub signs between ground and first floor. Both gables are blank. The rear has been greatly extended on successive occasions and now sports large modern one and two storey extensions with modern doors and windows and mono pitched roofs (with very shallow pitch). The main roof is pitched and has Bangor blue slates to the front and pan tiles to the rear. Four evenly spaced rendered chimney stacks. Facade finished in rough cast. Mixture of cast iron and PVC rw goods.

Architects

Not Known

Historical Information

A building is shown on this site on the OS Map of 1833/4 and that of 1858-60 and is undoubtedly one of the five spirit grocers (and one of the eleven two storey slated houses), noted in the OS Memoirs, as present in the village in c.1834. The current owner has deeds dating back to 1804, the year in which the premises were ‘converted for use as a public house. The window openings to the ground floor appear to have been of a large-ish size for some considerable time (and may have been like this originally). References- Primary sources 1 Deeds in possession of owner dating to 1804. 2 PRONI VAL 1B/32 Valuation records for the townland of Ballyrawer (Parish of Donaghadee) early 1830s. 3 PRONI Ordnance Survey Maps 1st Edition 1833/4, Down 6. 4 Ordnance Survey Memoirs of Ireland Vol.7: Parishes of County Down II, ed. Angelique Day and Patrick McWilliams (QUB 1991), p. 49. 5 PRONI CR1/50 Correspondence relating to the parish of Carrowdore 1837-1874. 6 PRONI Ordnance Survey Maps 1st Revision 1858-60, Down 6. 7 PRONI ‘Griffith’s’ valuation for the townland of Ballyrawer (Parish of Donaghadee) 1863. 8 UFTM W.A. Green Collection WAG 1067 Photograph of Main Street, Carrowdore c.1910. 9 Grace Seymour 'Echoes of Millisle and District' (Rathfriland ?c.1980), p.88 [Photograph of Main St. Carrowdore ?c.1910.]

Criteria for Listing

Architectural Interest

Not listed

Historic Interest

Not listed

Evaluation

Large two storey public house of possible pre 1804 origin, now sporting modern window frames, a completely modernised interior and large modern extensions at the rear.

General Comments

Date of Survey

09 March 1998