6 The Strand, Portaferry, Co Down, BT22 1PE is a listed building in the Ards and North Down local planning authority area, Northern Ireland. First listed on 7 September 1976.
6 The Strand, Portaferry, Co Down, BT22 1PE
- WRENN ID
- scarred-gallery-grain
- Grade
- Local Planning Authority
- Ards and North Down
- Constituency
- Strangford MP: Jim Shannon (DUP)
- Country
- Northern Ireland
- Date first listed
- 7 September 1976
- Irish grid reference
- J 593 507
- Coordinates
- 54.38055, -5.54847
- Source
- NI Environment Agency listing
Description
A plain two storey terrace house of approximately 1840, located on The Strand to the southwest of Portaferry town centre. The property has undergone significant modernisation and has lost much of its original architectural character.
The front façade is symmetrical and faces roughly southwest. The ground floor features a timber panel door with plain fanlight at its centre, flanked on either side by a single sash window. The first floor contains three two-pane PVC windows. The front is finished in plain render and painted. The exposed east gable is blank and also finished in plain render. The roof is pitched to the front and covered with Bangor blue slates, with two Velux windows inserted to the front slope. A yellow brick chimney stack to the southeast features bracketed corbelling and uniform pots. The eaves course is finished with cast iron gutters and downspouts.
The rear façade has been substantially altered with modern window and door openings on both ground and first floors. A large flat-roofed dormer now occupies the entire rear roof area. The rear is finished in roughcast and partly painted.
Historical evidence suggests the property may have replaced an earlier, larger two storey dwelling shown on valuation maps of the 1830s, which was noted as very old and in poor repair. A photograph of The Strand from around 1910, taken before recent modernisation, shows the house with a distinctly late Georgian appearance, supporting the dating of approximately 1840. Valuation records of 1861 note the property was then occupied by James Moore.
The building sits within a conservation area.
Local climate
6 The Strand, Portaferry, Co Down, BT22 1PE 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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