Historic Building Details

HB Ref No:
HB24/05/047

Address :
73 Donaghadee Road Ballycopeland Millisle Newtownards Co. Down BT22 2BZ

Townland:
Ballycopeland

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Survey 2:
Record Only

Date of Listing:
20/12/1976 00:00:00

Date of De-listing:
06/08/1990 00:00:00

Current Use:
Demolished

Former Use
Thatched house

Conservation Area:
No

Industrial Archaeology:
No

Vernacular:
Yes

Thatched:
No

Monument:
No

Derelict:
Demolished

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OS Map No:
132/8

IG Ref:
J5952 7687

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Owner Category

Private

Exterior Description And Setting

Site of former, small, single storey thatched house on the W side of the Millisle Road, less than half a mile N of Millisle, demolished 1982 with modern dwelling now built in place. Description from 1st Survey Card "Single/storey cottage, gable ends. Roof thatched. Chimney brick and rendered. Wall roughcast and whitened. S front has 2 D/H windows, Georgian panes and one horiz. astragal. Central door sheeted and half door shed on W gable."

Architects

Not Known

Historical Information

On the OS Map of 1833/4 this general site is taken up with a number of small structures one of which appears to have matched the positioning of the recently demolished thatched cottage. References- Primary sources 1 PRONI VAL 1B/32 Valuation records for the townland of Ballycopeland (Parish of Donaghadee) 1830s. 2 PRONI Ordnance Survey Maps 1st Edition 1833/4, Co. Down 7. 3 Ordnance Survey Memoirs of Ireland Vol.7: Parishes of County Down II, ed. Angelique Day and Patrick McWilliams (QUB 1991), p. 49. 4 PRONI Ordnance Survey Maps 1st Revision 1858-60, Co. Down 7. 5 PRONI ‘Griffith’s’ valuation for the townland of Ballycopeland (Parish of Donaghadee) 1863. Secondary sources 1 Grace Seymour 'Echoes of Millisle and district' (Rathfriland ?c.1980).

Criteria for Listing

Architectural Interest

Not listed

Historic Interest

Not listed

Evaluation

Site of former small single storey thatched house, of possible early nineteenth century origin, demolished in 1982.

General Comments

Date of Survey

04 March 1998