Victoria School, Victoria Road, Ballyhalbert, Newtownards, Co. Down, BT22 1DQ is a listed building in the Ards and North Down local planning authority area, Northern Ireland.
Victoria School, Victoria Road, Ballyhalbert, Newtownards, Co. Down, BT22 1DQ
- WRENN ID
- gilded-chimney-twilight
- Grade
- Local Planning Authority
- Ards and North Down
- Constituency
- Strangford MP: Jim Shannon (DUP)
- Country
- Northern Ireland
- Irish grid reference
- J 643 635
- Coordinates
- 54.49373, -5.46358
- Source
- NI Environment Agency listing
Description
The site represents the location of a former schoolhouse, originally constructed between 1880 and 1899, and demolished in 1988. A new school building now occupies the site, opened in 1989. The original schoolhouse was a single storey, T-shaped building with a lean-to addition to the rear. It had a slated roof with gabled ends, including a gabled projection to the front. Decorative bargeboards and projecting eaves were present, along with a yellow brick chimney. The walls were rendered, lined, and painted, featuring a bevelled base. Each side bay contained two double-hung windows with vertical astragals and a label moulding over the lintel. The central gable included an inscription panel in a tympanum and a central window with a semi-circular arch head and horizontal astragals. Flanking this window were smaller curved recesses with semi-circular arch heads, all with triple archivolts over the sills. A sheeted entrance door was located on the left-hand side of the projection, and a plywood panel door on the right-hand side. The front of the building extended approximately 58 feet.
Local climate
Victoria School, Victoria Road, Ballyhalbert, Newtownards, Co. Down, BT22 1DQ sits in a wetter-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 1,040 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 83% 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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