Historic Building Details

HB Ref No:
HB24/01/101 A

Address :
Entrance Gates for Portaferry House Church Street Portaferry Co Down

Townland:
Ballyphilip

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Survey 2:
B2

Date of Listing:
07/09/1976 00:00:00

Date of De-listing:

Current Use:
Gates/ Screens/ Lodges

Former Use
Gates/ Screens/ Lodges

Conservation Area:
Yes

Industrial Archaeology:
No

Vernacular:
No

Thatched:
No

Monument:
No

Derelict:
No

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OS Map No:
206/12

IG Ref:
J5942 5107

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Owner Category

Exterior Description And Setting

Decorative yet restrained gate screen of c.1850, fronting the former Church Street entrance to the Portaferry House demesne. The screen consists of tall square piers constructed in a buff coloured sandstone. The piers have a projecting base with chamfered blocks and entablature with fluted frieze and ball finial. Cast iron central carriage gates with cast iron spear head railings. Similar styled pedestrian gates to either side of piers. Matching railings to either side of pedestrian gates on rendered low stone wall. Interestingly, the spearhead gate/fence pattern adorns other buildings in Portaferry, for example the Presbyterian and C of I churches.

Architects

Not Known

Historical Information

Though the Church Street entrance to the Portaferry House demesne is shown on Patrick O’Hare’s 1799 map, no gates are indicated on either this map or the valuation town paln of 1838. A screen which appears to match the plan of that we see today is shown on the valuation town plan of c.1861. The gates may have been erected in c.1850, at the same time as the accompanying gate lodge appears to have been built. References- Primary sources 1 PRONI OS/6/3/32/1 OS maps, 1st ed., 1834, Down sheet 32 2 PRONI VAL/1D/3/4 Valuation town plan of Portaferry, c.1838 3 Linen Hall Library ‘Slater’s National Commercial Directory of Ireland’ (Manchester 1846), p.520-23 4 PRONI VAL/12E/112/1- Valuation maps of Portaferry, c.1861, with revisions of 1902 5 PRONI OS/8/23/2 OS town plan of Portaferry, 1874 6 PRONI OS/8/23/3 OS town plan of Portaferry, 1900 7 PRONI VAL/12E/112/2- Valuation maps of Portaferry, 1902, with revisions of 1935 Secondary sources 1 G. Philip Bell, C.E.B. Brett, Sir Robert Matthew, 'Ulster Architectural Heritage Survey: Portaferry & Strangford' (Belfast UAHS 1969) 2 J.A.K. Dean, ‘The Gatelodges of Ulster- A Gazetteer’ (Belfast UAHS, 1994), p.89

Criteria for Listing

Architectural Interest

A. Style B. Proportion C. Ornamentation D. Plan Form J. Setting K. Group value

Historic Interest

X. Local Interest

Evaluation

Decorative yet restrained gate screen of c.1850, fronting the former Church Street entrance to the Portaferry House demesne, with sandstone pillars and cast iron spear head railings. Group value with the other listed demesne buildings/

General Comments

This record was previously numbered HB24/01/101.

Date of Survey

17 June 1997