Black Castle, 54 Banbridge Road, Banbridge, Co Down, BT66 7QD is a Grade D1 Record Only listed building in the Armagh City, Banbridge and Craigavon local planning authority area, Northern Ireland.
Black Castle, 54 Banbridge Road, Banbridge, Co Down, BT66 7QD
- WRENN ID
- grim-screen-laurel
- Grade
- D1 Record Only
- Local Planning Authority
- Armagh City, Banbridge and Craigavon
- Constituency
- Upper Bann MP: Carla Lockhart (DUP)
- Country
- Northern Ireland
- Address
- Black Castle, 54 Banbridge Road, Banbridge, Co Down, BT66 7QD, BT66 7QD
- Irish grid reference
- J 080 488
- Coordinates
- 54.37641, -6.33824
- Source
- NI Environment Agency listing
Description
Black Castle was a former square tower built of blackstone and brick, with a one-and-a-half-storey house attached to its front. It was located at Knocknagore Townland, County Down. This structure has since been demolished and replaced by a modern bungalow. The First Survey records that the tower, dating before 1833, had a one-and-a-half storey rendered house with carved bargeboards to the roof, and a harled and whitened cottage at the rear. The tower’s openings were square-headed, pointed, or circular. The building was noted to be in poor condition and appeared on an Ordnance Survey map of 1833, labelled "Black Castle (in ruins)." An Ordnance Survey map from 1860 also referred to it as "Black Castle (in ruins)." A survey was conducted on 21 December 1972. The building is not listed, possesses no architectural or historical interest, and the survey was only partial.
Local climate
Black Castle, 54 Banbridge Road, Banbridge, Co Down, BT66 7QD 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 lower than that of 63% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 18 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 82% of listed buildings. Of these, 9 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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