Old Head, 28 Ballymenoch Road, Holywood, Co Down is a listed building in the Ards and North Down local planning authority area, Northern Ireland.

Old Head, 28 Ballymenoch Road, Holywood, Co Down

WRENN ID
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Grade
Local Planning Authority
Ards and North Down
Constituency
North Down MP: Alex Easton (Ind)
Country
Northern Ireland
Irish grid reference
J 413 792
Coordinates
54.64124, -5.81135
Source
NI Environment Agency listing

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Description

The house, known as Old Head, was a single-storey bungalow built in the immediate post-war period, around 1950. It was designed for Douglas Wilson by the architect Granville Smyth. The design included large windows, a prominent stone chimney, and stone quoins defining the front entrance recess. A link block extended the bungalow to a one-and-a-half-storey addition. The house was featured in an article on Ulster architecture in the Architects Journal on 31 May 1951, published by R. J. McKinstry. The building has since been demolished, and a new housing development has been constructed on the site.

Local climate

Old Head, 28 Ballymenoch Road, Holywood, Co Down sits in a wetter-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 1,080 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 86% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 89% of listed buildings.

It experiences an average of 4 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 98% 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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