The Cottage, Fort Road, Helen’s Bay, Co Down is a Grade D1 Record Only listed building in the Ards and North Down local planning authority area, Northern Ireland.
The Cottage, Fort Road, Helen’s Bay, Co Down
- WRENN ID
- crumbling-screen-pigeon
- Grade
- D1 Record Only
- Local Planning Authority
- Ards and North Down
- Constituency
- North Down MP: Alex Easton (Ind)
- Country
- Northern Ireland
- Irish grid reference
- J 454 827
- Coordinates
- 54.67186, -5.74691
- Source
- NI Environment Agency listing
Description
The Cottage, formerly located on Fort Road, Helen’s Bay, County Down, was a long, single-story cottage that appeared on an Ordnance Survey map of 1834. The original cottage has since been demolished and replaced by a two-story dwelling. The First Survey card describes the cottage as having a corrugated iron roof, rendered chimneys, and whitewashed stone rubble walls. It featured four diamond-pane windows with Georgian panes and a porch, followed by another diamond-pane window with horizontal astrays. The porch was described as recently built, square in design, and having a six-pane window on its front face and a sheeted door on its left-hand side. The house had been extended to the right-hand side as a store, with a wisteria-covered wall. Behind the cottage stood an outbuilding with a slated roof and ruinous stone rubble walls. The front of the original block measured approximately 118 feet. The condition of the house was reported as fair to poor in a 1973 survey.
Local climate
The Cottage, Fort Road, Helen’s Bay, 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 87% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 87% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 5 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 97% 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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