Former Old Forge Hotel, Millisle Road, Miller Hill, Donaghadee, Co. Down is a Grade Record Only listed building in the Ards and North Down local planning authority area, Northern Ireland. First listed on 20 December 1976.
Former Old Forge Hotel, Millisle Road, Miller Hill, Donaghadee, Co. Down
- WRENN ID
- weathered-grate-jet
- Grade
- Record Only
- Local Planning Authority
- Ards and North Down
- Constituency
- North Down MP: Alex Easton (Ind)
- Country
- Northern Ireland
- Date first listed
- 20 December 1976
- Irish grid reference
- J 593 775
- Coordinates
- 54.62087, -5.53449
- Source
- NI Environment Agency listing
Description
The site represents the former location of a large Italianate gentleman’s residence, constructed around 1870-1880 and demolished around 1986. It was situated on a rise to the west of Millisle Road, approximately one mile south of Donaghadee. Originally named ‘Rathmona’, the house was not shown on the 1858-60 Ordnance Survey map. Built by William Carmichael of Millisle, it was described in 1977 as a two-story, mid-19th century villa in the Italianate style, reminiscent of the work of Thomas Jackson. Distinctive features included a boldly carved, shallow porch with a coat of arms incorporated into fish-scale stucco tiles, as well as coupled windows and a bold, bracketed cornice. The building was sold in 1888 and subsequently owned by several individuals and families, including Robert Corry, John McConnell, D. Reid MP, and the Heyn shipping family. At one point, the name was changed to ‘Croagh Patrick’, and it later operated as a hotel. A fire significantly damaged the building in 1981, leading to its demolition and the subsequent construction of a modern nursing home on the site around 1986/7.
Local climate
Former Old Forge Hotel, Millisle Road, Miller Hill, Donaghadee, Co. Down sits in a wetter-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 1,130 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 88% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 94% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 1 freeze-thaw cycle a year, fewer than 99% of listed buildings. Of these, 1 follows 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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