Dry Closet, Holly Park, 37 Holly Park Road, Ballymacreelly, Killinchy, Newtownards, Co Down, BT23 6SN is a Grade B2 listed building in the Ards and North Down local planning authority area, Northern Ireland. First listed on 4 March 1977.
Dry Closet, Holly Park, 37 Holly Park Road, Ballymacreelly, Killinchy, Newtownards, Co Down, BT23 6SN
- WRENN ID
- rooted-forge-fog
- Grade
- B2
- Local Planning Authority
- Ards and North Down
- Constituency
- Strangford MP: Jim Shannon (DUP)
- Country
- Northern Ireland
- Date first listed
- 4 March 1977
- Irish grid reference
- J 493 589
- Coordinates
- 54.45743, -5.69797
- Source
- NI Environment Agency listing
Description
This is an uncommon, simple dry closet built of rubble stone, its age currently undetermined. It possesses group value with Holly Park house. The dry closet is located at the edge of a wood to the rear (north) of Holly Park house, to the west of Holly Park Road, approximately one mile southwest of the village of Killinchy. It measures approximately 3.5 metres by 2 metres and has a gabled roof covered in Bangor blue slate. A timber-sheeted door is set into the north facade, and a crude pointed arch window with brick dressings and a recently installed frame (without glass) is in the east gable. Holly Park house likely dates from the 18th century, but this dry closet does not appear on Ordnance Survey maps from the 1830s, 1860s or 1921, making it impossible to precisely determine its age. The building's fabric would require expert analysis to establish its date, as it could be either as old as Holly Park house or more recent. The former and current use of the building is as a closet. A possible date range for construction is 1820-1839.
Local climate
Dry Closet, Holly Park, 37 Holly Park Road, Ballymacreelly, Killinchy, Newtownards, Co Down, BT23 6SN receives an average of 920 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 70% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 78% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 5 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 97% of listed buildings. Of these, 3 follow at least 1 mm of rain in the preceding 48 hours. Average temperatures at this location have risen by 0.2°C per decade since 1991.
Averages for 1991–2020; temperature trend 1991–2025. Figures describe the wider area (a grid cell of roughly 10 km), not the individual site. Contains modified Copernicus Climate Change Service information 2026.
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