3 The Square, Greyabbey, Newtownards, Co. Down, BT22 2QA is a Grade B2 listed building in the Ards and North Down local planning authority area, Northern Ireland. First listed on 30 July 1991.

3 The Square, Greyabbey, Newtownards, Co. Down, BT22 2QA

WRENN ID
muffled-cornice-jet
Grade
B2
Local Planning Authority
Ards and North Down
Constituency
Strangford MP: Jim Shannon (DUP)
Country
Northern Ireland
Date first listed
30 July 1991
Irish grid reference
J 579 679
Coordinates
54.53486, -5.56131
Source
NI Environment Agency listing

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Description

This is a mid-19th century, end-of-terrace house, now a shop, located on the north-west side of Main Street, Greyabbey. It is one of a short terrace of three similar properties built between 1834 and 1860. The building has a modern rear extension and an altered interior.

The principal facade, facing Main Street, is two stories high and has a six-over-six pane Georgian sash window on the ground floor, with a smaller six-over-three pane window directly above. Both windows have simple surrounds. Timber shop signboards are positioned to the left of the windows. The gable end, facing a small pedestrian lane, combines with a single-story, flat-roofed extension added to the rear of the building. A modern, partly glazed door is set into the right-hand side of the extension’s south-west face. The rear of the building also features the extension and a small modern fixed light window on the first floor of the original structure. The exterior is finished in painted roughcast, with a slated gabled roof, a small rendered chimney stack to the gable end, and cast iron gutters and downspouts. The entrance to the shop is on the south-west gable, consisting of a partly glazed door with a plain painted stone surround and a shop sign board above.

Historical records, including valuation and ordnance survey documents from 1834 to 1930, document the building's construction and subsequent evolution. The architectural interest lies in its style, proportions, and group value within the terrace. Local interest is also noted.

Local climate

3 The Square, Greyabbey, Newtownards, Co. Down, BT22 2QA 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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