46 Shore Road, Portaferry, Co Down, BT22 1JZ is a Grade B1 listed building in the Ards and North Down local planning authority area, Northern Ireland. First listed on 7 September 1976. 1 related planning application.

46 Shore Road, Portaferry, Co Down, BT22 1JZ

WRENN ID
late-cobble-hawk
Grade
B1
Local Planning Authority
Ards and North Down
Constituency
Strangford MP: Jim Shannon (DUP)
Country
Northern Ireland
Date first listed
7 September 1976
Address
46 Shore Road, Portaferry, Co Down, BT22 1JZ, BT22 1JZ
Irish grid reference
J 594 505
Coordinates
54.37878, -5.54649
Source
NI Environment Agency listing

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Description

46 Shore Road is a fine two-storey late Georgian terrace house of around 1825, with attic storey, set on the east side of Shore Road south of Portaferry town centre. The property was probably built as a Methodist manse.

The front façade faces roughly west and is asymmetrical in composition. Slightly right of centre sits the main entrance doorway, which features a timber panel door with simple pilasters, entablature and cornice. To the left is a tripartite sliding sash window with broad mullions and Georgian panes, and to the right a single sliding sash window with similar panes. All windows are set on stone cills supported by console brackets. Three additional windows occupy the ground floor to the right of the entrance. The front façade is finished in unpainted lined render with moulded quoins.

The rear façade is plainer in treatment, finished in unpainted render. To the ground floor left are a pair of modern French doors, with a small window with fixed light frame to their right, and a large modern single-storey extension beyond that. The first floor rear features a small window with modern frame to the left, two stairwell windows in the centre, and a first floor window to the right. The gabled roof is covered in Bangor blue slates. Two early twentieth-century gabled dormers with sliding sash windows and decorative barges and finials adorn the front roof slope. The rear roof has a modern flat-roofed dormer and large Velux window. Two yellow brick chimneys with bracketed corbelling run through the roof. Cast iron guttering and downspouts, with an eaves course, detail the roofline. The modern rear extension has a hipped roof also covered in Bangor blue slates.

A building in possession of Thomas Savage is shown on this site in Patrick O'Hare's 1799 map of Portaferry. The present house was formerly the Methodist manse and is likely the newly built dwelling of the same dimensions recorded in the 1838 valuation returns as the residence of Reverend Mr. Smyley. Photographic evidence indicates the dormers are early twentieth-century additions.

Local climate

46 Shore Road, Portaferry, Co Down, BT22 1JZ 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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