Historic Building Details

HB Ref No:
HB18/19/025

Address :
Clougher Hall Ardglass Road Clogher Downpatrick BT30 6

Townland:
Clogher

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Survey 2:
Record Only

Date of Listing:

Date of De-listing:

Current Use:
House

Former Use
House

Conservation Area:
No

Industrial Archaeology:
No

Vernacular:
Yes

Thatched:
No

Monument:
No

Derelict:
No

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OS Map No:
224/16

IG Ref:
J5062 4294

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Owner Category

Private

Exterior Description And Setting

Single storey gabled vernacular farm house of pre 1834 construction, now vacant. The property is set at the end of a long lane to the S of Ardglass Road, roughly 1½ miles SE of Downpatrick. The asymmetrical front façade faces N. To right of centre is the timber panelled door which has a simple geometrical surround. To the left are two window openings of differing size and with surrounds as doorway. Both these openings, and all others, are boarded over. To the right of the doorway is another window opening. The E and W gables each have a single window opening. To the left of centre at the rear is a lean-to with timber sheeted lean-to to W face and two small window openings. To left of the lean-to (to rear façade of main house) are three window openings. The entire façade is finished in unpainted rough cast. The roof is slated with rendered parapets and has three rendered chimney stacks. Cast iron rw goods. Concrete covered farm yard to rear with mainly single storey rough cast finished outbuildings.

Architects

Not Known

Historical Information

A building is shown on this site on the OS map of 1834. This probably equates to today’s house for the 1838 valuation returns tell us that it was of the same dimensions. The same records also tell us that the property at this point was probably over thirty years old and belonged to a Mr Richard West. Richard West [?the son of the above] is recorded as resident in the 1863 valuation, but by 1886 the house appears to changed hands. The property appears to have been vacated in the 1970s. References- Primary sources 1 PRONI OS/6/3/38/1 OS map, Down sh 38, 1834 2 PRONI VAL/1B/378 First valuation, Down, c.1838 3 PRONI OS/6/3/38/2 OS map, Down sh 38, 1858 4 PRONI Second valuation, Down, 1863 (in print) 5 George Henry Bassett ‘County Down guide and directory’ (Dublin 1886), pp.201-207

Criteria for Listing

Architectural Interest

Not listed

Historic Interest

Not listed

Evaluation

Plain single storey gabled farm house of pre 1834 construction, now vacant.

General Comments

Date of Survey

13 November 2000