Historic Building Details

HB Ref No:
HB24/13/019

Address :
15 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:
Shop

Former Use
House

Conservation Area:
No

Industrial Archaeology:
No

Vernacular:
No

Thatched:
No

Monument:
No

Derelict:
No

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OS Map No:
131/16

IG Ref:
J4898 7390

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Owner Category

Commercial Commercial

Exterior Description And Setting

Two storey gabled terrace shop (formerly a house) near the W end of the S side of Court Street. The front (N) facade has a modern shop front with a glazed aluminium door to the right and an adjoining large fixed light shop window. Above this is a long painted timber sign board (with modern stylised writing). To the first floor are two sash windows with Georgian panes. The facade is covered in painted lined render. There was no access to the rear of this shop The roof is gabled and covered in Bangor blue slates. Rendered parapet. Metal rw goods. Brick chimney stack.

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 (apparently) including this shop. When first surveyed in October 1972 this property was a house. For more historical information on Court Street see ref. HB24/13/041 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

Two storey gabled terrace shop, originally a house built c.1840s. The shop front is modern and the internal layout appears to have radically altered.

General Comments

Date of Survey

11 September 1998