Historic Building Details

HB Ref No:
HB18/07/007

Address :
45-47 Windmill Street Ballynahinch Co. Down BT24 8HB

Townland:
Ballynahinch

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Survey 2:
Record Only

Date of Listing:

Date of De-listing:

Current Use:
Public House

Former Use
Shop

Conservation Area:
No

Industrial Archaeology:
No

Vernacular:
No

Thatched:
No

Monument:
No

Derelict:
No

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OS Map No:
204/6 NE

IG Ref:
J3674 5243

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Owner Category

Commercial Financial

Exterior Description And Setting

Substantial two storey gabled block of probable late 19th century origin, now containing a public house and office. The block is set on the S side of Windmill Street, just to the E of Ballynahinch. The front façade faces N, with the front of No.47 (to the left) occupying roughly one third of the façade. To the ground floor front of No.47 is a panelled door with plain fanlight. To the left of this are two windows with modern frames. Above all is a modern sign board with raised lettering. To the first floor are two windows with frames as ground floor but with segmental heads to the openings themselves. The N gable is blank and has a single storey lean-to extension to the ground floor, which stretches to the S (left) of the gable to join to the E face of the rear return. To the rear of No.47 is a large two storey gabled return. The W face of the return is blank and is abutted by an extension belonging to No.45. The E face is also blank and is abutted by the lean-to stretching from the main gable (see above). The gable of the return has a squat modern window to the ground floor and another window to the first floor, the opening of which appears original, but the frame of which is modern. The front façade and gable of No.47 are finished in painted lined render, with tiling to ground floor level. Moulded quoins to the front. The return is finished in pebbledash. The main roof has natural slate, with non-asbestos slates to the lean-to and return. Two chimney stacks, one rendered, one painted brick (to No.45). PVC rw goods. No.45 is much larger than its neighbour and has been converted to a public house. To the ground floor of the front façade is a panelled door to the far left with segmental headed fanlight. To the right of this is are large bowed windows flanking a central doorway with panelled door and three pane fanlight. The bowed windows each have twelve panes, some with lattice lights. To the right of the pub front is a much smaller window with modern frame. A large public house sign board, with raised letters, spans across the ground floor openings. Spotlights above first floor windows. To the first floor are four windows with segmental heads and modern frames. Between and around these windows are flag poles, a wrought iron bracket for a sign and an internally illuminated PVC public house sign. The W gable is blank and has a lean-to section attached to the ground floor. This lean-to stretches to the rear where it merges with a very large, modern, single storey gabled extension. This extension covers much of the rear elevation and has a small lean-to section stretching from its E face, which abuts the return at the rear of No.47. The rear façade of the main (original) building is only visible at first floor level where there is a small window (with modern frame), to the left. The entire façade is rendered and painted, with some sections of the render lined. Moulded quoins to front. Panels painted between first floor windows to front. The main roof is covered in natural slates with two Velux windows to the rear and two painted brick chimney stacks. PVC and cast iron rw goods.

Architects

Not Known

Historical Information

The south side of Windmill Street is shown almost entirely vacant on the OS map of 1834, with only a few houses to the west end where the street opens into The Square. By 1858 it had been completely developed with an almost unbroken terrace in place. This block may have been present at this stage, but its segmental headed windows and (believed) brick construction suggests it dates from c.1880 or even later. When the block was first surveyed in August 1974, both Nos.45 and 47 were shops (with apartments above). No.45 had become a pub by 1978 and both properties were greatly extended in the 1980s-90s. References- Primary sources 1 PRONI D.1255 Title deeds, legal and testamentary papers, correspondence and Irish Land Commissioners Papers re the Ballynahinch Estate, 1630-1940. 2 PRONI OS/1/3/22 OS map 1st ed., 1834, Co. Down 22. 3 PRONI VAL/1B/388A-B Valuation records, Magherdrool, 1834-1838. 4 PRONI VAL/1D/3/19 Valuation town plan, Ballynahinch, 1838. 5 PRONI and Linen Hall Library ‘Belfast and Province of Ulster Directory’ Vols.1-21, 1852-1900, (Belfast, Henderson [1852-65], Belfast News-Letter [1865- ]). 6 PRONI OS/9/41/1 OS Town plan of Ballynahinch, 1860 7 PRONI and Linen Hall Library Second (Griffith’s) valuation, Magherdrool, c.1863 [in print]. 8 PRONI VAL/12E/83/1 Valuation town plans, Ballynahinch, 1864-1905. 9 PRONI VAL/12E/83/2 Valuation town plans, Ballynahinch, 1905-35. 10 PRONI OS/8/3/2 OS town plan of Ballynahinch, 1920. 11 PRONI VAL/3G/59/1 Valuation town plans, Ballynahinch, 1937-53. Secondary sources 1 S. McCullough ‘Ballynahinch: centre of Down’ (Ballynahinch Chamber of Commerce 1968).

Criteria for Listing

Architectural Interest

Not listed

Historic Interest

Not listed

Evaluation

Much altered and extended two storey gabled block possibly dating from c.1880, now containing a public house and an office. The façade of the public house (No.45) has undergone a remodelling with bowed windows and a large modern extension to the gable and rear. No.47 has lost its former shop front and has a large lean-to extension to its gable and rear.

General Comments

Date of Survey

04 October 1999