Historic Building Details

HB Ref No:
HB26/12/055 A

Address :
104 Old Holywood Road Belfast Co.Antrim BT4 2HL

Townland:
Ballymaghan

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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:
130-11

IG Ref:
J3882 7558

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Owner Category

Exterior Description And Setting

Semi-detached two-bay, one and a half storey red brick cottage, built c.1870 having half-dromer to east, projecting chimney stack to south, single-storey red brick extension to south-west c.2000. The house is one of a pair of semi-detached buildings and is attached to 106 Old Holywood Road to north side (HB26/12/055B). The building is located to the west of Old Holywood Road and bounded by a stream to the south with Kennel Bridge over Old Holywood Road. Dwarf red brick wall with hedge to east and mature gardens to west. Pitched slate roof with roll-top terracotta ridge tiles, overhanging eaves supported on chamfered triangulated brackets, painted soffit and bargeboards. Gabled half-dormer to east. Two-stage chimney to south with leaded splays and leaded course, saw-tooth string course and terracotta pots. Ogee moulded uPVC guttering discharging to uPVC downpipes. Pitched slate roof to extension with painted bargeboard. Segmental-headed window openings having timber casement windows throughout, unless otherwise stated. Red brick walls with projecting stone plinth, moulded stone sill courses, flush ashlar sandstone course at impost level to ground floor openings. Front elevation faces east and consists of two-bays with pair of window openings to left side set within segmental-headed arch with chamfered brick drip mould over, segmental-headed entrance door opening with chamfered brick detail to drip mould and pair of window openings to half-dormer over. South elevation has projecting chimney stack flanked by window openings to ground and first floor with extension to left side having pair of square-headed window openings. West elevation has extension attached. North elevation is attached to adjacent property, 106 Old Holywood Road (HB26/12/055B). Materials Roof: Natural Slate RWG: uPVC Walling: Red Brick Windows: Timber Casement Setting: The building is one of a pair of semi-detached buildings and is attached to 106 Old Holywood Road (HB26/12/055B). It is located to the west of Old Holywood Road and bounded by a stream to the south with Kennel Bridge over Old Holywood Road. Dwarf red brick wall with hedge to east and mature gardens to west.

Architects

Historical Information

Mid nineteenth-century Ordnance Survey maps show this site of this pair of dwellings to have been unoccupied by any building and to have been surrounded largely by open countryside. In 1860 the site formed part of the property of John L. Bell of nearby Moat House. He subsequently sold this property to Thomas Valentine who had Moat House rebuilt in 1863-4 to designs by the well known architect W. J. Barre. Numbers 104 and 106 Old Holywood Road were constructed at some point between the rebuilding of Moat House and the mid 1880s. They are marked in ink on the Valuation Map covering the period c. 1860-c. 1885 and shown on the 1:2,500-scale Ordnance Survey map surveyed in 1895. The Valuation Revision Books are rather confusing in their presentation for the buildings on the Moat House demesne, and it is difficult to be more precise about the date of construction of numbers 104 and 106. However, it is possible that they represent the workmen’s houses that had been built by 1879 and which were given the valuation of £10. The occupiers of these houses are not noted until 1904 when they are identified as Thomas Culbert, whose dwelling was valued at £6 and James Campbell, whose dwelling was valued at £5; both houses were leased from Frank Workman who had acquired Moat House. Culbert is known to have been a gardener. Street directories for much of the twentieth century refer to this pair of dwellings and other nearby houses collectively as Moat Cottages. Moat Cottage seems to have been the name reserved by the Culbert family for their home. Maggie Culbert who died in 1920 was of The Moat Cottage, while Mary Culbert who died in 1946 was of Moat Cottage. The Culbert family remained in residence at 106 Old Holywood Road for most of the 1900s. Their neighbours in no. 104 for many years were the Robinsons. The Valuation Book for the period 1956-72 indicates that the immediate lessor of both houses was Ideal Planning Ltd. At that time no. 104, comprising a house, office and garden, was the home of J. Robinson and was valued at £10, while no. 106, a house and garden, was the residence of Agnes Culbert and was valued at £12. References Primary sources 1. PRONI, VAL/12/B/17/2A, 1863-66 2. PRONI, VAL/12/B/17/2B, 1867-78 3. PRONI, VAL/12/B/17/2C, 1879-86 4. PRONI, VAL/12/B/17/2E, 1887-91 5. PRONI, VAL/12/B/17/2H, 1891-97 6. PRONI, VAL/12/B/43/N/1, 1897-1905 7. PRONI, VAL/12/B/43/N/5, 1906-15 8. PRONI, VAL/12/B/43/N/8, 1916-30 9. PRONI, VAL/4B/7/47, 1956-72 10. PRONI, VAL/12/D/3/5A, c. 1860-[c. 1885] 11. PRONI, OS/6/1/5/2, 1855 12. PRONI, OS/10/3/5/5/1, 1895 13. PRONI, OS/10/3/5/5/5, 1922 14. Belfast and Province of Ulster Directory, 1870 onwards 15. PRONI, Will Calendars Secondary sources 1. Paul Larmour, Belfast: an illustrated architectural guide (Belfast, 1987) 2. J. A. K. Dean, The Gate Lodges of Ulster: a Gazetteer (Belfast, 1994) 3. Timothy Campbell and Stephen Royle, ‘East Belfast and the suburbanization of north-east County Down in the nineteenth century’, in Lindsay Proudfoot (ed.), Down: History and Society (Dublin, 1997) Online sources 1. 1901 and 1911 census returns (www.census.nationalarchives.ie)

Criteria for Listing

Architectural Interest

Not listed

Historic Interest

Not listed

Evaluation

A well-maintained and proportioned victorian cottage building that forms one of a pair of semi-detached houses, located along the Old Holywood Road. Externally, many architectural features have been retained including the half-hipped gable, overhanging bracketed eaves, projecting chimney stack, drip moulds and moulded sill course. The building is referred to as 'Moat Cottage', due to its possible association with ‘The Moat’ or ‘Moat House’ and was probably occupied by men who worked on the estate. Although of some character the building has been altered and is not of special interest.

General Comments

Well maintained building.

Date of Survey

11 July 2014