Historic Building Details

HB Ref No:
HB24/01/103 A

Address :
Entrance Gates for Portaferry House Deerpark Road Portaferry Co Down

Townland:
Ballymurphy

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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:
No

Industrial Archaeology:
No

Vernacular:
No

Thatched:
No

Monument:
No

Derelict:
No

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OS Map No:
206/8

IG Ref:
J5973 5180

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Owner Category

Private

Exterior Description And Setting

Relatively plain gate screen, of possible mid 19th century construction, fronting the main (NE) entrance to Portaferry House. The screen is located on the W side of Deerpark Road, a short distance to the N of Portaferry. Overall the screen is relatively simple. It has decorated wrought iron gates with cross work and ball heads (painted gold). Uneven coach gates in centre with pedestrian gate to left all set between low line render plinth walls and similar square piers, with ball pinnacles and caps in sandstone.

Architects

Not Known

Historical Information

Though this entrance to the Portaferry House Demesne is shown on the OS map of 1834, the actual drive leading from it headed in a southwards direction, until curving west and north-westwards towards the house itself. At this stage the gate lodge (and possibly the original gates), where set not at the roadside (now Deerpark Road), but further along the original drive to the south. By 1860 the drive had been reorientated in a south-westerly direction and the present lodge built. The gate screen was presumably also erected at this stage also. References- Primary sources 1 PRONI OS/6/3/32/1 OS maps, 1st ed., Parish of Ardquin, 1834, Down sheet 32 2 PRONI OS/6/3/32/2 OS maps, 1st rev., 1860, Down sheet 32 3 PRONI Second ('Griffith's') valuation, 1861 [In print.] 4 PRONI OS/6/3/32/3 OS maps, 2nd ed., 1899-1900, Down sheet 32 Secondary sources 1 G. Philip Bell, C.E.B. Brett, Sir Robert Matthew, 'Ulster Architectural Heritage Survey: Portaferry & Strangford' (Belfast UAHS 1969) 2 Dick Oram, "The Buildings of Portaferry" in 'Journal of the Upper Ards Historical Society No.16' (1992), p. 24 3 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

Gate screen, of possible mid 19th century construction, fronting the main (NE) entrance to Portaferry House. Group value with the other listed buildings in the demesne.

General Comments

This record was previously numbered HB24/01/103.

Date of Survey

01 July 1997