’Drift Inn’ Bar, Manor Street, Donaghadee, Co Down is a Grade Record Only listed building in the Ards and North Down local planning authority area, Northern Ireland. First listed on 5 May 1982. 6 related planning applications.
’Drift Inn’ Bar, Manor Street, Donaghadee, Co Down
- WRENN ID
- proud-paling-curlew
- Grade
- Record Only
- Local Planning Authority
- Ards and North Down
- Constituency
- North Down MP: Alex Easton (Ind)
- Country
- Northern Ireland
- Date first listed
- 5 May 1982
- Irish grid reference
- J 593 799
- Coordinates
- 54.64279, -5.53255
- Source
- NI Environment Agency listing
Description
The site represents the former location of a house, later a public house, dating from approximately 1830, which was demolished around 1994 and remains vacant. Located at the northern end of Manor Street, near the Parade in Donaghadee, the building was described in 1977 as a substantial two-storey late Georgian house. It featured a central doorway with a fine elliptical arch fanlight, flanked by wide canted bays that rose to pyramidal roofs.
A town plan of Donaghadee, created around 1836 to accompany valuation records, depicts the house with its distinctive canted bays. At that time it was part of the estate of the late R. Halliday and had a rateable value of £34. Following the arrival of the railway in 1860/61, which terminated just northeast of the site, the property was renamed the Railway Hotel and subsequently operated as a public house, known as the ‘Drift Inn’. The building was demolished around 1994. The site lies within the Donaghadee conservation area.
Local climate
’Drift Inn’ Bar, Manor Street, Donaghadee, Co Down sits in a wetter-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 1,130 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 88% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 94% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 1 freeze-thaw cycle a year, fewer than 99% of listed buildings. Of these, 1 follows 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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- No EPC on record for this property
- No sale records on file
- Related listed building consents — 6 applications
- Detailed attributes — period, style, materials, features
- No flood data for this area
- Radon risk assessment
- Weather exposure and heating demand — rain and frost month by month and year by year, wind direction, solar and humidity
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