Entrance Gates for Portaferry House, Church Street, Portaferry, Co Down is a Grade B2 listed building in the Ards and North Down local planning authority area, Northern Ireland. First listed on 7 September 1976.
Entrance Gates for Portaferry House, Church Street, Portaferry, Co Down
- WRENN ID
- winding-thatch-kestrel
- Grade
- B2
- Local Planning Authority
- Ards and North Down
- Constituency
- Strangford MP: Jim Shannon (DUP)
- Country
- Northern Ireland
- Date first listed
- 7 September 1976
- Address
- Entrance Gates for Portaferry House, Church Street, Portaferry, Co Down, Ballyphilip
- Irish grid reference
- J 594 510
- Coordinates
- 54.38331, -5.54694
- Source
- NI Environment Agency listing
Description
The entrance gates to Portaferry House, dating from approximately 1850, form a decorative yet restrained screen fronting the former Church Street entrance to the demesne. The screen is comprised of tall, square piers built from buff-coloured sandstone. These piers feature a projecting base with chamfered blocks and an entablature with a fluted frieze and ball finial. Central carriage gates and flanking pedestrian gates are constructed from cast iron with a distinctive spearhead railing design, which is repeated on other buildings within Portaferry, including the Presbyterian and Church of Ireland churches. Matching railings extend from the pedestrian gates along a rendered low stone wall.
While the Church Street entrance is marked on a map from 1799, no gates were shown at that time. A layout closely resembling the present screen appears on a town plan from around 1861. The gates were likely erected around 1850, coinciding with the construction of the accompanying gate lodge.
The gate screen contributes to the group value of the remaining demesne buildings. The site lies within the Ballyphilip townland and is located within a conservation area.
Local climate
Entrance Gates for Portaferry House, Church 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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