Historic Building Details

HB Ref No:
HB19/05/156

Address :
21 Lisburn Street Hillsborough County Down BT26 6AB

Townland:
Hillsborough

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Survey 2:
B2

Date of Listing:
15/06/2016 00:00:00

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:
184/5

IG Ref:
J2434 5891

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Owner Category

Exterior Description And Setting

A two-storey single-bay mid-terraced former dwelling, built c.1740, located on the east side of Lisburn Street, Hillsborough, now in commercial use as a café. Rectangular on plan, with single-storey lean-to addition to rear. ROOF - Pitched slate roof - artificial slate to front (W) and natural slate to rear (E), having angled clay ridge tiles and tiled skew over south party wall, which rises to a replacement red brick chimneystack. Gutters are half-round metal on brick eaves. WEST ELEVATION - The principal elevation faces west and has door offset to left side, with windows aligned to the right. Walling is unrendered random rubble stone with cementitious strap pointing. Timber sliding sashes windows; 6/6 with horns to ground floor, 6/3 to first floor, over painted masonry cills. All openings are formed in brick with smooth cement reveals. Entrance door is T&G sheeted timber replacement with original overlight split into three panes, having granite plinth blocks to either side of threshold step, and brick relieving arch over. NORTH & SOUTH ELEVATIONS - Both gables are fully abutted by adjoining terraced houses. EAST ELEVATION - The rear (E) elevation is more informal; smooth rendered and painted single storey lean-to abutment with natural slate roof to right side, partially concealing a painted brick relieving arch which spans almost the full width of the elevation; the rear is accessed via a later pair of fully-glazed timber-framed doors beneath this arch. Walling is random rubble bedded in lime mortar above the lean-to and the exposed ground floor section of the rear elevation is painted and rendered. First floor is lit by a 3/3 fixed pane window inset with a single pivoting panel, and a pivoting eight-light window set into a larger opening (pre-dating the lean-to and with the former window frame evident within later cement in-fill); both windows are set flush with the external wall and have timber cills. There is a t&g sheeted door to the south cheek of the lean-to, and a 6/3 exposed box horned sash to its east face. SETTING - Fronting directly onto the street, onto the main access road to Hillsborough town from the north and within the Hillsborough Conservation Area. To rear is a long narrow plot, with paving and a grass area to rear, used for café seating. The plot is bounded to rear by original rubble stone and brick walls onto the former Wapping Lane. MATERIALS - Roof: Artificial slate (W) / Natural slate (E) & return RWG: Metal Walling: Exposed rubble stone with red brick dressings Windows: Timber sliding sash (W & return) / Metal & timber casement (E)

Architects

Historical Information

The small town of Hillsborough (sometimes referred to as the Killwarlin Estate), was granted a Charter in 1661, and the name is derived from Peter Hill who built Hillsborough Fort in the 1630s to protect the main road between Carrickfergus and Dublin. The area which is now Lisburn Street constitutes the oldest part of the town and is shown as developed on a sketch map c. 1640 (PRONI). However, the village was almost entirely destroyed by the rebellion of 1641, when the native Irish rose up against the plantation settlers, and in 1662 the church, town and fort were rebuilt following the damage sustained. Laid out in the first half of the 18th century, the town as it exists today, is predominantly a creation of the 18th century, when Wills Hill (1718-93), the First Marquis of Downshire extended and rebuilt much of the town in the Georgian-style, largely between c.1750-80. Map evidence compiled from a hand drawn map of c. 1745 contained in Barry (1982), and a map of the Hillsborough Estate dated 1771 (PRONI) each show that two rows of terraced houses lined either side of the present Lisburn Street, at the junction with Main Street; it is thought that these buildings were erected c. 1740 and included No.21. Additional information obtained from the present owner indicates that deeds for the property exist, dating from the 1730s, (however these were not available for the recorder to view at the time of survey). A construction date from this period is supported by the following extract from Harris (1744), which appears to describe this row of buildings on Lisburn Street; “…his Lordship has already erected two ranges of commodious houses, to each of which are annexed a garden and a park of five acres, with grounds for bleach greens at a convenient distance…”. First shown clearly on the Town Plan of 1800 (PRONI), the terrace lines the eastern side of Lisburn Street (then Great Newport Street), with garden plots to the rear bounded by terraced outbuildings fronting onto Wapping Lane. The subdivision and ownership of the terrace remains unclear but the building appears to fall under the group of buildings noted under a ‘James Scott’ or ‘Maguiggan’. The Townland Valuation record and associated map (c.1834) are also unclear but they do show a group of seven properties valued at £4 8s and £3 10s bookended by larger houses to north and south which are valued at around £7 14s. The present No.21 may have been one of these properties valued at £3 10s or formed part of a larger building, which was later reconfigured and subdivided. Lisburn Street was called ‘Great Newport Street’ until the early-to-mid 19th century, as following the opening of the Lagan canal in 1794, it was anticipated that this new transport system would bring great prosperity to the area, with the ‘new port’ being located approximately 1 mile from the town. Despite construction costs of over £70,000, the potential of the canal never came to fruition as the scheme was of a poor design and was underfunded (Walker). The OS Memoirs of 1837 note that at this time the town comprised four streets; Main Street, Lisburn Street, Ballynahinch Street and Park Street. Lisburn Street was described as being 40ft wide, 220 yards long with a total of 58 dwelling houses, of which 55 were two-storey, 2 were three-storey and 1 was single-storey. The houses were all described as being slated and built mostly of stone or a combination of stone and brick. Griffiths Valuation (1861) notes that No.10 (later No.21, c. 1900), comprised a house (with the addition of a small return to rear), an outbuilding and yard, was occupied by a Roger Magowan, who repaid the Marquis of Downshire, and the buildings were valued at £4. The Annual Revisions (1864-1930) show that the occupier changed a multiple times during this period, while the footprint remained largely unchanged, except for the removal of the outbuildings from the rear yard, at some point between 1909-35. The value of the buildings remained unchanged until the First General Revision (c.1935) when the house and yard rose to £6 5s. This value was consistent throughout the Annual Revisions (1936-57), with a Sammuel Lilly noted as the occupier from 1923 until at least 1957. No. 21 is currently in use as a coffee shop/restaurant and the internal arrangement has been reconfigured. References Primary Sources 1. PRONI D671/M/8/1 Map of Part of the Kilwarlin Estate (c.1640) 2. PRONI D671/M/8/2 Map of the Manor of Hillsborough in Kilwarlin (1771) 3. PRONI D671/M/8/25 Map of Town of Hillsborough (c.1800) 4. PRONI D671/M/8/57/1 Coloured Map of the Town of Hillsborough (1803) 5. OS/6/3/14/1 First Edition OS map (1834) 6. OS/6/3/14/2 Second Edition OS map (1858) 7. OS/6/3/14/3 Third Edition OS map (1902-3) 8. OS/6/3/14/4 Fourth Edition OS map (1919-20) 9. PRONI VAL/1/D/3/5 Townland Valuation Town Plan (1834) 10. PRONI VAL/1/B/344A-B Townland Valuations (1834) 11. PRONI VAL/2/B/3/45A-C Griffith’s Valuation (1861) 12. PRONI VAL/12/B/20/14A-E Annual Revisions (1864-1930) 13. PRONI VAL/12/E/102/1/2 Annual Revision Map (1864-1909) 14. PRONI VAL/12/E/102/2 Annual Revision Map (1909-35) 15. PRONI VAL/3/B/4/9 First General Revaluations (1935) 16. PRONI VAL/3/C/4/20 Annual Revisions of the First General Revaluations (1936-57) Secondary Sources 1. Walter, Harris “The ancient and present state of the county of Down” (1744) in Barry, John “ Hillsborough; A Parish in the Ulster Plantation” Belfast (1982) 2. Hand Drawn Map (c.1745) in Barry, John “ Hillsborough; A Parish in the Ulster Plantation” Belfast (1982) 3. “OS Memoirs of Ireland, Parishes of Co. Down III Vol.12” edited by Angélique Day and Patrick McWilliams (1833-38) 4. Barry, John “Hillsborough; A Parish in the Ulster Plantation” William Mullan, Belfast (1982) 5. Brett, C.E.B. “In the Towns and Villages of Mid-Down” UAHS (1974) 6. “An Archaeological Survey of County Down” NI Ministry of Finance, Belfast (1966) 7. Walker, Simon “Hillsborough; An Illustrated History and Companion” Cottage Publications (1994)

Criteria for Listing

Architectural Interest

A. Style B. Proportion D. Plan Form J. Setting

Historic Interest

R. Age S. Authenticity X. Local Interest

Evaluation

21 Lisburn Street is a former terraced house, now in use as a café, located within a row of similarly scaled houses on the main northern approach to Hillborough from Belfast and within the Hillsborough Conservation Area. Of the terrace, built c.1740, No.21 is the best preserved, and the street now known as Lisburn Street is one of the earliest streets in Hillsborough, originally laid out in the seventeenth century, and subsequently rebuilt in the first half of the eighteenth century. Although now comprising a single unit to each floor, it is likely that No.21 contains early fabric, including historic masonry, sliding sash windows and some interior joinery; this means that the building, although modest, is notably early in an Ulster context. The original plot, with rubble stone boundary walls to the former Wapping Lane, is evident to rear. Despite replacement fabric (which is generally sympathetic to the age and character of the building), 21 Lisburn Street represents an important survivor in the context of Hillsborough, and in the wider context of eighteenth century domestic vernacular architecture in County Down.

General Comments

This record was previously listed as HB19/05/59. Also HB19/LQ160

Date of Survey

21 January 2016