Historic Building Details

HB Ref No:
HB17/04/028 D

Address :
20 Hayes Park Lurgan Road Banbridge Co Down BT32 4PF

Townland:
Kilpike

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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:
No

Thatched:
No

Monument:
No

Derelict:
No

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OS Map No:
220-4

IG Ref:
J1227 4768

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Owner Category

Private

Exterior Description And Setting

Semi-detached single-bay one-and-a-half-storey concrete block house, built c.1912, with two-storey extension added to the east gable c.1970. Built as one of a pair within a cul-de-sac of 28 similar houses designed by William Larmour. Located on the east side of Lurgan Road opposite the former Seapatrick Mills and laid out as a garden village with a winding bitmac road. Steeply pitched natural slate roof with terracotta ridge tiles and decorative finial having a shared rendered chimneystack with capstone and terracotta pots. Single cat-slide dormer to front and rear with exposed timber rafter feet to overhanging eaves throughout, timber bargeboards and cast-iron rainwater goods. Rock-face moulded concrete block walling with projecting concrete plinth course. Square-headed window openings with flush concrete lintels, flush concrete splayed sills and ½ timber sash windows (unless otherwise stated). Single-bay front elevation with tripartite window opening to the ground floor having rock-face moulded concrete mullions and original 1/2 timber sash windows. Central dormer rising above eaves with catslide roof and tripartite timber casement window. West elevation abutted by adjoining property. Single-bay rear elevation with dormer as per front elevation and single square-headed window opening to ground floor. East side elevation abutted by two-storey extension, built c.1970, with rock-face moulded concrete block and square-headed window openings with concrete sills and lintels having timber casement windows. Current front entrance located to the north elevation of extension having flush concrete lintel and surround with timber panelled door. Setting Located in a cul-de-sac of 28 similar houses on the east side of Lurgan Road accessed via a winding bitmac road. Raised front garden enclosed by concrete brick wall and large rear garden. Roof Natural slate RWG Cast-iron Walling moulded concrete block / cement render Windows timber

Architects

Larmor, William Wright

Historical Information

Hayes Park is a development of twenty-eight semi-detached dwellings built by F W Hayes & Co, the proprietors of Seapatrick Spinning Mills. The houses were built between 1912 and 1919 to designs by William Larmour and are first shown on the fourth edition OS map of 1903-18, captioned ‘Hayes’ Park’. Nos 19 and 20 date from 1912. The first eight houses, corresponding to numbers 15-22, enter valuation records in 1912 with numbers 23 and 24 added in 1913 and numbers 25 to 28 in 1914, all valued at £4. A further 14 houses were added in an adjacent plot between 1915 and 1919. Valuer’s notes give a plan of the first buildings to be constructed showing a small porch to the side and a separate store/lavatory to the rear. The walls were built of concrete blocks and the cost was £300 for each pair with a rent of 3s.6d per week being paid for each dwelling. Young and Quail carry a picture of Hayes Park shortly after it was built showing the original side porches which have now largely been replaced or extended. The houses were said to be ‘English-style’ and were dwellings that carried a certain amount of status, being intended for foremen rather than the ordinary workers. Initially no roads led into the development, emphasizing its rural character but leading to the local saying ‘Hayes by name and a maze by nature’. (Young and Quail) The plans for the estate were prepared by William Larmour of Banbridge who is said to have been inspired by an idea put forward by ‘one of the Barbour ladies of Hilden’ (Moore) In 1834 Frederick William Hayes built weaving sheds on glebe land near Seapatrick Church, later converting the mill to linen thread production under the name ‘Royal Irish Linen Threads’. On the death of Frederick the business was taken over by his son William Hayes who began a programme of house building, putting up terraces of workers’ housing on Kilpike Road and a short terrace of management houses facing onto the Lurgan Road c1865. The next phase of house building associated with the factory took place around 1890 when a red-brick terrace of management houses, known as Milfort Terrace, was erected on the Lurgan Road, opposite Seapatrick Rectory, followed by a red-brick terrace of workers’ housing (Bannview Terrace). (Moore) The eight semi-detached dwellings at ‘Seapatrick Villas’ were built in 1908/9 and together with the housing built in Hayes Park in the 1910s were influenced by the concept of garden cities or villages which was then current. The idea of the garden city grew out of the desire of paternalistic industrialists to provide ideal spacious conditions for their workforce with low density housing surrounded by green spaces. (Ward) The houses continue in use as domestic dwellings. References: Primary Sources 1. PRONI OS/6/3/27/4 Fourth Edition OS Map 1903-18 2. PRONI VAL/12/B/16/6A-H Annual Revisions (1864-1929) 3. PRONI VAL/12/A/3/67 Valuation Notes 1912 4. PRONI VAL/3/D/4/3/L/3– First General Revaluation (1933-57) 5. 1911 census online Secondary Sources 1. Moore, TA “Thread making at Seapatrick” (available at raymondscountydownwebsite.net) 2. Ward, S V ed “The Garden City: Past, Present and Future” Alexandrine Press, Oxford, 1992 3. Young, A F and Quail, D “Old Banbridge” Stenlake Publishing, 2002

Criteria for Listing

Architectural Interest

Not listed

Historic Interest

Not listed

Evaluation

Semi-detached two-bay one-and-a-half-storey house, built c.1915. Built as one of a pair (HB17/04/028B&C) in a cul-de-sac of 28 similar houses designed by William Larmour. Located opposite the former Seapatrick Mills and laid out as a garden village with a winding road. Hayes Park is an unusual example of a garden village, built to accommodate the workers of Seapatrick Mills. This house has been compromised by alteration and extension. Although of interest as an early twentieth-century example of suburban design, these houses are not among the best examples of the type and most have been degraded by changes. As a whole, they do not meet the statutory and policy tests as buildings of special architectural or historic interest.

General Comments

Date of Survey

19 July 2012