Historic Building Details

HB Ref No:
HB24/13/074

Address :
The Moate 1 Moate Road Ballyrickard Newtownards Co. Down BT23 4XA

Townland:
Ballyrickard

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Survey 2:
Record Only

Date of Listing:

Date of De-listing:

Current Use:
Outbuildings

Former Use
House

Conservation Area:
No

Industrial Archaeology:
No

Vernacular:
No

Thatched:
No

Monument:
No

Derelict:
Yes

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OS Map No:
148/7

IG Ref:
J4832 7043

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Owner Category

Private

Exterior Description And Setting

Largely demolished single storey farm house of probable pre 1834 origin situated to the NE of the Moate Road, roughly half way between Newtownards and Comber. Much of the front (SE) facade of this house can still be discerned with remains of a sash window to the left and an ‘Ards’ doorway (with modern door) to the centre right . This facade is finished in rough cast render with chamfered quoins. There is the remains of a sash window to the right on the NE gable. The SW ‘gable’ is largely demolished with the remaining section covered in greenery. There is a garden wall attached to this ‘gable’. The right half of the rear facade has been completely demolished and there is a lean to extension attached to the still extant left half, with a further small extension with moon-pitched roof attached to the NE side of the lean to. The NE half of this former dwelling has been converted to a garage/store and has a corrugated asbestos covered gabled roof. When first surveyed in April 1971 this house (which was still occupied) had a bay window to either side of the entrance, but these are no longer in evidence. Modern (c.early 1960s) two storey house a few metres to the SE.

Architects

Not Known

Historical Information

A building is shown on this site on the OS map of 1834. The revised map of 1859-60 the building is marked ‘Moate’, the name undoubtedly stemming from the presence of an [?Iron Age] mound just to the NW. The house itself is noted in the valuation records of 1863 with the ‘house offices and land’ having a low rateable value of £1.15.0. By this stage the owner's son had also built a modern (c.1950s-60s) two storey dwelling a few yards to the SW, and when ‘The Moate’ was finally abandoned in 1987. A modern style replacement dwelling has built on the opposite side of the Moate Road. References- Primary sources 1 PRONI OS maps 1st ed. 1834, Co. Down 10. 2 PRONI VAL 1B/316A Comber parish, Ballyrickard td., c.1835. 3 PRONI OS maps 1859-60, Co. Down 10. 4 PRONI 2nd valuation, Comber parish, Ballyrickard td., 1863.

Criteria for Listing

Architectural Interest

Not listed

Historic Interest

Not listed

Evaluation

Largely demolished single storey house of possible pre 1834 origin, part of the remainder of which has now been converted to a garage.

General Comments

Date of Survey

17 September 1998