Historic Building Details

HB Ref No:
HB24/17/075

Address :
43 Ballydorn Road Ballydorn Killinchy Co Down BT23 6QB

Townland:
Ballydorn

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Survey 2:
Record Only

Date of Listing:

Date of De-listing:

Current Use:
Demolished

Former Use
Thatched house

Conservation Area:
No

Industrial Archaeology:
No

Vernacular:
No

Thatched:
No

Monument:
No

Derelict:
Demolished

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OS Map No:
168/9

IG Ref:
J5204 6297

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Owner Category

Private

Exterior Description And Setting

Site (on the S side of the Ballydorn Road c.2 miles NE of Killinchy) of former single storey thatched cottage, now demolished. First Survey Record: 'Single storey cottage; roof thatched; gable ends. Chimneys roughcast. Walls rendered and painted white. North front has 2 casement windows; horizontal astragals and central sheeted door. Right hand window in 6in deep recess. Condition poorish. About 35 feet front.'

Architects

Not Known

Historical Information

A building is shown on this site on the OS maps of 1834 and that of 1859-60. The owner of the building is not stated in the first valuation of c.1835, but the second valuation records of c.1861 state that the building contained two dwellings [?one room] both belonging to a Hamilton Patton but leased to James Orr and James Maxwell respectively. The building was demolished some time after January 1974. References- Primary sources 1 PRONI OS maps 1st ed. 1834, Co. Down 17. 2 PRONI VAL 1B/335 pp.73-74 1st valuation Killinchy parish, Ballydorn td, c.1835. 3 PRONI OS Maps 1st rev. 1859-60, Co. Down 17. 4 PRONI 2nd valuation, Killinchy parish, Ballydorn td., c.1861.

Criteria for Listing

Architectural Interest

Not listed

Historic Interest

Not listed

Evaluation

Site of former single storey thatched cottage of possible pre 1834 origin, now demolished.

General Comments

Date of Survey

07 July 1998