Historic Building Details

HB Ref No:
HB24/13/077

Address :
2-4 Frederick Street Newtownards Co. Down BT23 4LR

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:
131/15

IG Ref:
J4854 7417

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Owner Category

Private

Exterior Description And Setting

Site on the E side of Frederick Street of a block of two, two storey gabled houses, demolished [?]c.1985-90 with site now occupied by a car park adjoining a modern building. A small section the N gable appears to have survived. The houses previously on the site had an overall late Victorian appearance, with red brick facades and yellow brick courses, with the N gable in rubble with brick dressings. First Survey Record: 2 storey block with attic. Roof slated, gable ends. Chimneys yellow brick. Front wall brick with yellow brick moulding. Eaves course and other courses at frieze, first floor and ground floor windows. Left/hand gable of stone rubble with brick dressings to 2 attic windows - double/hung, no astragals and 5 centre arch head. Front has 4 first floor double/hungwindows, no astragals. Gd floor has recent panelled door with fanlight - recent flush door with plain fanlight - window as above - panelled door with plain fanlight - double/hung window as abnove. Condition fair. Frontage about 40ft.

Architects

Not Known

Historical Information

Though this site appears to have been occupied at the time of the revised OS map of 1858, the houses that stood here until recently had a distinct late Victorian appearance and were probably built c.1880. References- Primary sources 1 PRONI OS maps, 1st rev. 1858-60, Co. Down 6.

Criteria for Listing

Architectural Interest

Not listed

Historic Interest

Not listed

Evaluation

Site of former two storey late Victorian block of two houses constructed mainly in red brick with yellow brick courses, demolished c.1985-90 with site now taken up with a car park adjoining a modern building.

General Comments

Date of Survey

09 September 1998