Former Railway freight store, off Saintfield Road, Ballygowan, Co. Down, BT23 6HB is a Grade Record Only listed building in the Ards and North Down local planning authority area, Northern Ireland.
Former Railway freight store, off Saintfield Road, Ballygowan, Co. Down, BT23 6HB
- WRENN ID
- frozen-outpost-oak
- Grade
- Record Only
- Local Planning Authority
- Ards and North Down
- Constituency
- Strangford MP: Jim Shannon (DUP)
- Country
- Northern Ireland
- Address
- Former Railway freight store, off Saintfield Road, Ballygowan, Co. Down, BT23 6HB, BT23 6HB
- Irish grid reference
- J 429 636
- Coordinates
- 54.50146, -5.79351
- Source
- NI Environment Agency listing
Description
This is a single-storey, rubble-built railway freight store dating to c.1898 and located off Saintfield Road, Ballygowan, Co. Down. Originally part of the station complex on the Belfast and Co. Down Railway, which opened in 1859, the store is rectangular in plan. It features a coursed rubble facade with granite quoins and dressings, and a Bangor blue slated gabled roof. Originally, each gable was pierced by a large semicircular arched doorway designed to accommodate engines, but these are now filled with modern doors and windows. Two other arched openings on the south-east facade are now completely blocked. The railway track was lifted in 1950, and the surrounding ground is now surfaced with tarmac. The building is now used for storing gardening equipment. It represents the last recognisable former railway building in Ballygowan, and possesses industrial archaeological interest. Sources consulted included Ordnance Survey maps from 1858-60 and 1973, William A. McCutcheon’s ‘The Industrial Archaeology of Northern Ireland’ (1980), and Desmond Coakham’s ‘Belfast & County Down Railway’ (1998).
Local climate
Former Railway freight store, off Saintfield Road, Ballygowan, Co. Down, BT23 6HB sits in a wetter-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 990 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 79% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 79% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 6 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 96% of listed buildings. Of these, 4 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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