Historic Building Details

HB Ref No:
HB23/20/034 B

Address :
6 The Crescent Holywood County Down BT18 9AY

Townland:
Holywood

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Survey 2:
B2

Date of Listing:
28/02/1975 00:00:00

Date of De-listing:

Current Use:
House - Terrace

Former Use
House - Terrace

Conservation Area:
Yes

Industrial Archaeology:
No

Vernacular:
No

Thatched:
No

Monument:
No

Derelict:
No

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OS Map No:
130/04

IG Ref:
J4002 7924

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Owner Category

Private

Exterior Description And Setting

An attractive three-storey two-bay Georgian terraced townhouse, built c.1830, located to the south of High Street, close to the centre of Holywood. Rectangular on plan with two-storey gabled return and extension to rear. Pitched natural slate roof with rectangular brick chimneystacks having stone plinth and terracotta pots. Cast-iron half-round rainwater goods with drive-in brackets; uPVC rainwater goods to rear extension. Walling is painted smooth render with quoins and plinth; plat band between ground and first floor. Windows are 6/6 timber-framed sliding sash (unless otherwise stated) with projecting stone sills. The principal elevation faces north and is two windows wide with smaller 3/3 windows to second floor. Entrance to right accessed by two stone steps; door is double-panelled with brass furniture framed by moulded Doric pilasters; slender transom light surmounted by moulded frieze and cornice with scrolled console brackets; to left canted bay window 2/2 sliding sash with horizontal glazing bars and dividing Doric pilasters. The east elevation is abutted by adjoining building (HB 23/20/034A). Rear elevation has a window opening to each floor and is abutted to left by two-storey gabled return, which is further abutted by a single-storey castellated extension; entrance door to east framed by pastiche Doric pilasters; three window openings to south. The west elevation is abutted by adjoining building (HB 23/15/034C). Setting The terrace is located in a secluded square with mature trees, enclosed by a brick wall with modern electric gates to north, and by mature hedges to east and west. To the rear of the property there are two outbuildings of no real interest. Roof: natural slate Walling: render Windows: timber RWG: cast-iron

Architects

Not Known

Historical Information

According to Merrick, this terrace began life as a single farmhouse in the late eighteenth century, which would have been situated at the edge of the village of Holywood. In the 1820s the plot was taken over by Hugh Stewart and redeveloped to create a terrace of four houses. Hugh Stewart had been appointed Post Master in Holywood in 1822 and was responsible for a number of housing developments including Holywood’s first public baths. (Merrick, p.3, 54) In the Townland Valuation (1828-40) all the houses are listed as the property of Hugh Stewart and this house is valued at £11.8s. In Griffith’s Valuation (1856-64) the house is occupied by Edmond Lord and valued at £17. Dimensions are given for the house, and stables and carriage houses are listed to the rear of the terrace. The valuation town plan dating from c1860 to c1866 notes that the plot in front of the houses is ‘in potatoes’. In Hugh Stewart’s will of 1858 he bequeaths the houses in the Crescent to his daughter Harriet Kennedy “ for her own sole use and benefit independently of her present or any future husband and I direct that they be subject to her own control nevertheless that she be not at liberty to sell alien or mortgage or anticipate the same during her life but that at her death she may will them to whom she pleases”. He further directed that a £12 annuity be paid to his daughter Susan Greenfield “out of the rents derived from the Crescent lying behind the house in which I at present dwell”. Hugh Stewart’s grandson is the immediate lessor of the properties after his grandfather’s death. By 1863 Lewis Kamcke is the occupier and John Anderson and others, the immediate lessor. Kamcke was a partner in the firm of William R Kamcke & co who were linen merchants with offices in the White Linen Hall. The valuation is reduced, in stages, to £14 in 1874, and then £11 in 1892. The house is subject to a large number of changes in occupier, after James Todd (1887) come Lewis Robbin (1900), John Brown (1902), Margaret E Hughes (1918) and John Dugan (1930), to name but a few. In 1903 the valuation of the house is raised slightly to £13 due to the addition of a bathroom. Valuer’s notes give a plan and dimensions. (Merrick, p.54) References: Primary Sources 1.PRONI OS/6/3/1/1 – First Edition OS Map 1834 2.PRONI OS/6/3/1/2 – Second Edition OS map 1858 3.PRONI OS/6/3/1/3 – Third Edition OS Map 1900-02 4.PRONI OS/6/3/1/4 – Fourth Edition OS Map 1919-31 5.PRONI OS/6/3/1/5 – Fifth Edition OS Map 1938-41 6.PRONI VAL/1/B/318 – Townland Valuation (1828-40) 7.PRONI VAL/2/B/3/18A – Griffith’s Valuation (1856-64) 8.PRONI VAL/12/A/3/53 – Valuer’s Notebook (1900-6) 9.PRONI VAL/12/B/17/10A-G – Annual Revisions (1867-1930) 10.PRONI VAL/12/E/123/1/1-6 – Annual Revisions Town Plan (c1860-c1866) 11.PRONI VAL/12/E/123/2/1-6 – Annual Revisions Town Plan (c1867-1900) 12.PRONI T1342/5 – Will of Hugh Stewart dated 12th March 1858 Secondary Sources 1.Brett, C.E.B. “Buildings of North County Down” Belfast: Ulster Architectural Heritage Society, 2002 2.Merrick, Tony “Buildings of Holywood” Holywood: Holywood Advertiser, 1986

Criteria for Listing

Architectural Interest

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

Historic Interest

X. Local Interest

Evaluation

An attractive and well-maintained three-storey two-bay Georgian terraced townhouse, c.1830 situated in an informal square. The architectural detailing on this terrace is of quality and is largely intact. External inspection of the interior indicates that the original floor plan survives. The house is a good example of the type in original condition and has group value within its own terrace, which combines with a Victorian terrace (HB23/20/033A-D) located at right angles to this one to form the square. The setting of an informal square is of note and survives in relatively original form.

General Comments

Renumbered from HB23/20/034 F

Date of Survey

13 May 2010