14 Ferry Street, Portaferry, Co Down, BT22 1PB is a Grade B1 listed building in the Ards and North Down local planning authority area, Northern Ireland. First listed on 7 September 1976.
14 Ferry Street, Portaferry, Co Down, BT22 1PB
- WRENN ID
- secret-rampart-storm
- Grade
- B1
- Local Planning Authority
- Ards and North Down
- Constituency
- Strangford MP: Jim Shannon (DUP)
- Country
- Northern Ireland
- Date first listed
- 7 September 1976
- Address
- 14 Ferry Street, Portaferry, Co Down, BT22 1PB, BT22 1PB
- Irish grid reference
- J 593 507
- Coordinates
- 54.38083, -5.54748
- Source
- NI Environment Agency listing
Description
A small, well-detailed two-storey terrace shop of approximately 1861, located in the middle of Ferry Street on its east side in Portaferry. The building has an interesting history as the former Nugent estate office.
The front façade facing west is asymmetrical. The ground floor features a plain sheeted timber door on the right, with a tripartite sliding sash window to its left, fitted with Georgian panes and a stone cill. A modern plastic shop sign is positioned above the window and door. The first floor contains two smaller sash windows with Georgian panes, and a traditional-style projecting shop sign. The façade is finished in lined render and painted.
A single-storey lean-to section extends to the rear, which was not fully accessible to survey but was observed to have two sash windows to the first floor, matching those of the front. The roof is gabled and covered with Bangor blue slates. Two rendered chimney stacks rise from the roof. The rainwater goods are a mixture of PVC and cast iron.
The site is recorded as occupied on Patrick O'Hare's map of 1799, though the present building probably dates from around 1861. The second valuation map and accompanying valuation returns from that period clearly indicate the ground was in the process of being built on at that time. The property served as the Nugent estate office for many years. Adjacent number 16 functioned as the local police station from circa 1861–1862 until 1909, after which it operated as a Post Office until 1990.
Local climate
14 Ferry Street, Portaferry, Co Down, BT22 1PB 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 81% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 4 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 98% of listed buildings. Of these, 2 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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