Old Chapel, Hillsborough Castle and Gardens, Hillsborough, County Down, **See General Comments** is a Grade D1 Record Only listed building in the Lisburn and Castlereagh local planning authority area, Northern Ireland.
Old Chapel, Hillsborough Castle and Gardens, Hillsborough, County Down, **See General Comments**
- WRENN ID
- cold-belfry-jet
- Grade
- D1 Record Only
- Local Planning Authority
- Lisburn and Castlereagh
- Constituency
- Lagan Valley MP: Sorcha Eastwood (APNI)
- Country
- Northern Ireland
- Irish grid reference
- J 239 588
- Coordinates
- 54.46283, -6.0891
- Source
- NI Environment Agency listing
Description
This building, formerly a church and now used as a folly, was initially surveyed but not listed. A partial survey was undertaken during a subsequent assessment, acknowledging its status as a scheduled monument, SMR DOW014:011. It is not included on the list of buildings of architectural or historical interest, and is not listed. Its notable characteristic is that it also serves as a monument.
Local climate
Old Chapel, Hillsborough Castle and Gardens, Hillsborough, County Down, **See General Comments** receives an average of 940 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 72% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 52% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 20 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 79% of listed buildings. Of these, 10 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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- No EPC on record for this property
- No sale records on file
- No related consent applications matched
- Detailed attributes — period, style, materials, features
- No flood data for this area
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Similar buildings
The closest matches to this building from all 493,000 UK listed buildings, by architecture, period and materials.
- 1 1, 3, 5 Lisburn Street, Hillsborough, County Down, BT26 6AB, **See General Comments
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- 3 Glenbrook House, 73 Kilwarlin Road, Corcreeny, Hillsborough, County Down, BT26 6EA, **See General Comments**
- 4 2 Park Lane, Hillsborough, County Down, BT26 6AQ
- 5 13, 15, 17 Ballynahinch Street, Hillsborough, County Down, BT26 6AW, **See General Comments**
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