Historic Building Details

HB Ref No:
HB19/05/049 A

Address :
20 Lisburn Street Hillsborough County Down BT26 6AB

Townland:
Hillsborough

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Survey 2:
Record Only

Date of Listing:

Date of De-listing:

Current Use:
Shop

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:
184/05

IG Ref:
J2434 5893

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Owner Category

Private

Exterior Description And Setting

A two-storey, two-bay commercial property, built c.1800 originally incorporating numbers 22 and 24 (HB19/05/049B&C); located west of Lisburn Street in Hillsborough town centre. Square on plan with large two-storey modern extension to rear. Pitched natural slate roof with blue/black angled ridge tiles and brick chimneystacks. Cast-iron half-round rainwater goods. Walling is roughcast render with raised smooth rendered quoins to left side at first floor; wooden reproduction timber panelled shop-front to ground floor; modern red-brick and smooth rendered extension to rear. Windows are replacement 6/6 timber-framed sliding sash with smooth rendered surrounds and projecting masonry sills. The principal elevation faces east and is two windows wide to first floor. Shop-front to ground floor comprising replacement half-panelled timber door with small transom light to left; plate glass window to right with vertical dividers and panelled timber plinth; framing door and window are wide panelled pilasters; surmounted by corniced fascia (blank). The south elevation is abutted by adjoining building. The west (rear) elevation is fully abutted by a two-storey modern extension. The north elevation is abutted by adjoining building; HB19/05/49B. Setting: Gravelled car-park and brick paving to rear. Backing onto a lake in the grounds of the Hillsborough Castle Estate, enclosed by an early rubble stone wall. Forming part of an eighteenth-century /early nineteenth-century terrace on the northerly approach into Hillsborough town centre. Roof: Natural slate Walling: Roughcast render Windows: Replacement 6/6 timber-framed sash RWG: Cast-iron

Architects

Not Known

Historical Information

No. 20 Lisburn Street first appears on a c. 1800 map of the Town of Hillsborough where it is depicted, incorporating nos 20 and 24, as a single oblong building on the west side of Lisburn Street; the map shows that the building possessed a large outbuilding which extended from the rear of the current No. 24. Lisburn Street is the oldest part of Hillsborough and witnessed a period of development between c. 1800 and c. 1830 when the majority of buildings on the northern half of the street were constructed; at this time Lisburn Street was known as ‘Great Newport Street in reference to the construction of the Lagan Canal in the late eighteenth century (Barry, p. 39). Nos 20 to 24 Lisburn Street are amongst the earlier houses which date from the mid to late 18th century before the later development of the street. The first edition Ordnance Survey map (1834) and the Townland Valuation map of c. 1830 continued to depict nos 20 to 24 as a single property; the Townland Valuations recorded that a Mr. Allan Weir occupied the site, which at that time was valued at £6. Between 1834 and 1858 the large outbuilding at the rear of the building had been taken down. The second edition of the Ordnance Survey map (1858) shows that two returns had been constructed to the rear of nos 20 and 24 Lisburn Street (one of these appearing to extend from the rear of No. 20). The single building depicted on earlier sources was first recorded as three dwellings in Griffith’s Valuation (1861) which tells us that a Mr. John Mulligan owned the three houses and that No. 20 was let by a Mr. John Murtagh at annual rent of £10. No. 20 Lisburn Street was valued at £8 and was described as a 1a- class two-storey dwelling measuring 5 by 6 yds and possessing a two-storey return (3 ½ by 4yds) and a small pantry room at its rear. John Murtagh had vacated the house by 1864 when a Mr James Scott was recorded as occupant; in 1878 the house fell vacant for a number of years before being reoccupied in 1883 by a Mr. [McKelvey], the first of a long list of tenants that briefly resided at the address over the next 20 years. In 1901 Robert Boyd, a 42 year old Presbyterian Policeman came into possession of the house, living there with his wife Margaret (28) and their four young sons. The Census Building Return of that year described the house as a 2nd class dwelling which consisted of four rooms and possessed no out offices. In 1905 the house changed hands once more when a Ms. Ellen Moore, a local seamstress, came into possession residing there until 1914. From that time the house passed to two other tenants before being occupied by Margaret Kelly, a local nurse, who resided at No. 20 Lisburn Street from 1920 until the end of the Annual Revisions in 1930. There was little change to the site between 1858 and the fourth edition of the Ordnance Survey map in 1919-20. The address is currently used as the premises for a children’s clothing shop, the existing shop front being added at an unknown date in the mid-twentieth century. References Primary Sources 1. PRONI D671/M/8/25 – Hillsborough Map c.1800 2. PRONI D671/M/8/57/1 – Hillsborough Illustrated Map 1803 3. PRONI VAL/1/B/344 A-B – Townland Valuations 1834 4. PRONI VAL/1/D/3/5 – Town Plan 1834 5. PRONI OS/6/3/14/1 – First Edition OS Map 1833 6. PRONI OS/6/3/14/2 – Second Edition OS Map 1858 7. PRONI OS/6/3/14/3 – Third Edition OS Map 1902-1903 8. PRONI OS/6/3/14/4 – Fourth Edition OS Map 1919-1920 9. PRONI VAL/2/B/3/45A-C – Griffith’s Valuation 1861 10. PRONI VAL/12/B/20/14A – Annual Revisions 1864-1879 11. PRONI VAL/12/B/20/14B – Annual Revisions 1880-1889 12. PRONI VAL/12/B/20/14C – Annual Revisions 1890-1908 13. PRONI VAL/12/B/20/14D – Annual Revisions 1909-1928 14. PRONI VAL/12/B/20/14E – Annual Revisions 1928-1930 15. Census of Ireland 1901 / 1911 16. Ordnance Survey Map 184-5 (1966) Secondary Sources 1. Barry, J., ‘Hillsborough: A parish in the Ulster plantation’ (3rd ed.), Belfast, Universities Press., 1982.

Criteria for Listing

Architectural Interest

Not listed

Historic Interest

Not listed

Evaluation

A two-storey, two-bay commercial property, built c.1800 originally incorporating numbers 22 and 24 (HB19/05/049B&C); located west of Lisburn Street in Hillsborough town centre. Restored in recent years, the building retains some of its original character, although the shop-front is a modern reproduction. Forming part of an eighteenth/early nineteenth-century thoroughfare on the approach to Hillsborough town centre, number 20 contributes to the character of the street. Although of interest, as the building has been significantly altered at street level, it is not considered to meet the criteria for listing.

General Comments

The record has been renumbered from HB19/05/049.

Date of Survey

14 January 2011