Site of former Primitive Methodist Church Meeting House Street, Portaferry, Co Down is a Grade Record Only listed building in the Ards and North Down local planning authority area, Northern Ireland.
Site of former Primitive Methodist Church Meeting House Street, Portaferry, Co Down
- WRENN ID
- nether-mortar-dawn
- Grade
- Record Only
- Local Planning Authority
- Ards and North Down
- Constituency
- Strangford MP: Jim Shannon (DUP)
- Country
- Northern Ireland
- Address
- Site of former Primitive Methodist Church Meeting House Street, Portaferry, Co Down, Ballyphilip
- Irish grid reference
- J 595 508
- Coordinates
- 54.3813, -5.54568
- Source
- NI Environment Agency listing
Description
The site of a former Primitive Methodist church, built in 1830, is located in Portaferry, County Down, situated between the rear of No.36 The Square and the Portaferry Presbyterian Church. The building was demolished in 1978 and the site is now a small car park.
The church was originally built by the Primitive Methodist congregation of Portaferry at a cost of £130. It was described in the Ordnance Survey Memoirs of approximately 1834 as a plain building, measuring 41 feet 9 inches by 24 feet 6 inches, with a congregation of between 40 and 50 people. The building was a single-cell hall with a pitched gable roof, approximately 45 feet by 25 feet. It had two lancet windows on the west end and four lancet windows on the north end, with damage caused by the insertion of a wagon door. The south side was blank. The exterior walls were of rubble blackstone with brick dressings to the windows. The interior was harled and whitewashed.
The church remained in use until 1868, when the Primitive Methodists re-amalgamated with the Wesleyans. It was subsequently used as a store before its demolition.
Local climate
Site of former Primitive Methodist Church Meeting House Street, Portaferry, Co Down 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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