Historic Building Details

HB Ref No:
HB18/04/020

Address :
Hill House 53 Killyleagh Road Cluntagh Crossgar Co Down BT30 9NB

Townland:
Cluntagh

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Survey 2:
B2

Date of Listing:
27/05/1980 00:00:00

Date of De-listing:

Current Use:
House

Former Use
House

Conservation Area:
No

Industrial Archaeology:
No

Vernacular:
No

Thatched:
No

Monument:
No

Derelict:
No

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OS Map No:
205/7

IG Ref:
J4739 5243

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Owner Category

Private

Exterior Description And Setting

Large formal two storey hipped roof house of c.1850, now with conservatory-like entrance porch and pebble dash render to front. The property is set to the S side of the Killyleagh Road, a mile E of Crossgar. The front façade faces directly E and is symmetrical. To the centre of the ground floor is a relatively large hipped roof, conservatory-like porch (probably Edwardian), with doorway to N and steps to either side. To the left and right of the doorway are two tall sash windows with Georgian panes (6/6). To the first floor are five similar but smaller windows (the central window is slightly broader than the rest). The S façade has an enlarged modern window to the left on the first floor. To the right of this is a modern, partly glazed, door, and to the far right is a window as ground floor front. To the first floor are three evenly spaced sash windows, that to the left as first floor front, with those to the centre and right 2/2. To the N façade there are three (largely) evenly spaced first floor windows, as front. To the ground floor there is a window to the centre and one to the right, both as first floor front. To the left is a window sized recess (which is now painted to resemble a window). To the left on the ground floor of the rear façade there is a plain sheeted door with three pane semicircular fanlight. To the right is a small sash window, next a smaller single pane window, and next another plain sheeted door. To the far right the façade is abutted by a single storey shed (which links to a large outbuilding complex to the W). To the centre of the façade is a large semicircular headed stairwell window with various margin panes and coloured glass. To the left of this is a small sash window. The front and N facades are finished in pebble dash, the S and rear in rough cast. The hipped roof is covered in natural slate with four rendered chimney stacks with corbelling. Metal rw goods. To the W of the house is a large U-shaped two and single storey complex of outbuildings. These are mainly rubble built with a mixture of hipped and gabled roofs. To the E side the complex is two storey and partly finished in rough cast. The block to the E has a central vehicle entrance, which was originally elliptical but is now flat arch. Many of the openings to this block and those attached to it further to the W, have been altered to a greater or lesser degree and many now sport modern window frames

Architects

Not Known

Historical Information

On the OS map of 1834 this site is occupied by a U-shaped building. The contemporary valuation returns tell us that this particular building was a recently built school house, with two wings each measuring 44ft x 20 x 14, with a central portion (possibly the master’s quarters) of 25 x 23 x 14. This school seems to have had a short existence, for the 1859-60 OS map shows the present building on the site, marked ‘Hill House’, with the eastern section of the outbuilding complex. The date of construction of the house is uncertain, but the internal detailing suggests that around 1850 might be likely. The 1863 valuation returns list the resident as one Robert McDowell. McDowell appears to have remained there until at least 1886, but by 1900 it was in possession of a family named Orr, who retained it until at least 1945. The current owners acquired the property in 1986, after it had lain vacant (and in poor repair) for some time. The glazed porch was probably added in c.1900. References- Primary sources 1 PRONI OS/6/3/23/1 OS map, 1834, Down 23 2 PRONI VAL/1A/3/23 1st valuation map, c.1835, Down 23 3 PRONI VAL/1B/336 1st valuation, Killyleagh, c.1835-38 4 ‘Belfast and Province of Ulster Directory’ Vols.1-21, 1852-1900, (Belfast, Henderson [1852-65], Belfast News-Letter [1865- ]) 5 PRONI OS/6/3/23/2 OS map, 1859-60, Down 23 6 PRONI 2nd valuation (in print), Killyleagh, 1863 7 George Henry Bassett ‘County Down Guide and Directory’ (Dublin 1886), pp.378-79 8 PRONI OS/6/3/23/3 OS map, 1901, Down 23 9 PRONI OS/6/3/23/4 OS map, 1920, Down 23

Criteria for Listing

Architectural Interest

A. Style B. Proportion H-. Alterations detracting from building J. Setting

Historic Interest

X. Local Interest

Evaluation

Large, formal two storey hipped roof house of c.1850, with Edwardian conservatory-like entrance porch and pebble dash render to front. To the west there is a large complex of two and single storey (largely) contemporary outbuildings, with openings slightly altered in recent years.

General Comments

Date of Survey

30 May 2000