Historic Building Details

HB Ref No:
HB24/06/022

Address :
Portavo House Warren Road Portavoe Donaghadee Co Down BT21 0PL

Townland:
Portavoe

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Survey 2:
D1 Record Only

Date of Listing:

Date of De-listing:

Current Use:
Demolished

Former Use
Country House

Conservation Area:
No

Industrial Archaeology:
No

Vernacular:
No

Thatched:
No

Monument:
No

Derelict:
Demolished

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OS Map No:
116/11

IG Ref:
J5614 8205

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Owner Category

Private

Exterior Description And Setting

This building was surveyed in the First Survey but not listed. Only a Partial Survey was taken during the Second Survey as the building has been demolished. Site of a former country house built in two phases, the large two to three-storey return a remnant of an 1820s (and earlier) mansion largely destroyed by fire in 1844, with the two-storey over basement front section added in 1881. The building was demolished in the 2000s and replaced with a new residence sited a short distance to the southwest. The extensive remains of the basement level of the 1820s house remain in place.

Architects

Not Known

Historical Information

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Criteria for Listing

Architectural Interest

Not listed

Historic Interest

Not listed

Evaluation

This building was surveyed in the First Survey but not listed. Only a Partial Survey was taken during the Second Survey as the building has been demolished. Site of a former country house built in two phases, the large two to three-storey return a remnant of an 1820s (and earlier) mansion largely destroyed by fire in 1844, with the two-storey over basement front section added in 1881. The building was demolished in the 2000s and replaced with a new residence sited a short distance to the southwest. The extensive remains of the basement level of the 1820s house remain in place.

General Comments

Date of Survey

15 February 2001