Historic Building Details

HB Ref No:
HB24/13/018

Address :
11 Court Street Newtownards Co. Down BT23 3NX

Townland:
Newtownards

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Survey 2:
Record Only

Date of Listing:

Date of De-listing:

Current Use:
Demolished

Former Use
House

Conservation Area:
No

Industrial Archaeology:
No

Vernacular:
No

Thatched:
No

Monument:
No

Derelict:
Demolished

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OS Map No:
131/16

IG Ref:
J4897 7390

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Owner Category

Commercial Commercial

Exterior Description And Setting

Site, near the W end of the S side of Court Street, of former two storey terrace house. The house was probably constructed in the 1840s and had an ‘Ards’ doorway, sash windows and a slated gabled roof, but was demolished some time between 1972 and 1978. The site is now partly taken up with a small, single storey, flat roofed shop, constructed in 1978. First Survey Report. '2 storey house. Roof slated. Chimneys rendered. Wall rendered, lined and painted. Bevel base. 3 first floor double/hung windows, Georgian panes. Gd floor has lintolled coachway with sheeted door. Then Ards doorway with 5 course archivolt and keystone on blocked pillasters, plain fanlight and pannelled door and double/hung window as above. Condition fair. Frontage about 25 feet.'

Architects

Not Known

Historical Information

Court Street appears to have been laid out in the 1840s, taking its name from the fact that the near by medieval priory served a court house between 1817 and 1850. The revised OS map of 1858 shows that the south side had been completely developed by this date, with a long unbroken terrace stretching along the entire length and including the house formerly on this site. The house on this site appears to have occupied when first surveyed in October 1972, but was demolished at some point prior to 1978, when the small, flat roofed shop was built on part of the site. For more historical information on Court Street see ref HB24/13/41. References- Primary sources 1 PRONI D.654 Londonderry Papers [This collection contains many documents relating to the development of Newtownards.] 2 PRONI OS Maps 1st ed. 1834, Co. Down 6. 3 PRONI OS Maps 1st rev. 1858-60, Co. Down 6. 4 Ordnance Survey Memoirs of Ireland Vol.7: Parishes of County Down II, ed. Angelique Day and Patrick McWilliams (QUB 1991), pp.105-106. 5 PRONI 2nd (‘Griffith’s’) valuation, Newtownards parish, Newtownards 1863. [The town plan to accompany the 2nd valuation does not appear to be held at PRONI thus making it difficult to match the information contained within the written record with actual buildings.] 6 UFTM WAG 944 W.A. Green Collection- Photograph of the old priory and Court Street, c.1910. Secondary sources 1 Trevor McCavery 'Newtown: a history of Newtownards' (Dundonald 1994), pp.35, 80, 117, 146, 159, 190.

Criteria for Listing

Architectural Interest

Not listed

Historic Interest

Not listed

Evaluation

Site of former two storey house of 1840s origin, demolished some time between 1972 and 1978 with site now partly taken up with a small modern shop.

General Comments

Date of Survey

09 September 1998