Gates at Ardilea House, 8 Ardilea Road, Ardilea, Clough, Downpatrick, BT 30 8SL is a Grade B2 listed building in the Newry, Mourne and Down local planning authority area, Northern Ireland. First listed on 11 February 1980.
Gates at Ardilea House, 8 Ardilea Road, Ardilea, Clough, Downpatrick, BT 30 8SL
- WRENN ID
- gentle-entrance-onyx
- Grade
- B2
- Local Planning Authority
- Newry, Mourne and Down
- Constituency
- South Down MP: Chris Hazzard (SF)
- Country
- Northern Ireland
- Date first listed
- 11 February 1980
- Irish grid reference
- J 413 386
- Coordinates
- 54.27721, -5.83016
- Source
- NI Environment Agency listing
Description
Gates at Ardilea House
A relatively simple double gate screen of approximately the 1840s, comprising wrought iron gates and octagonal granite pillars. The gates are located at the end of the drive to the south of Ardilea House on Ardilea Road, roughly a mile south-south-east of the village of Clough. They are approached via a stone bridge, possibly dating to the early 19th century, which spans an inlet to the south.
The gates and railings stand approximately 1.5 metres high. The railings are wrought iron with restrained spearhead decoration featuring curls. The granite gate posts are octagonal in section, topped with octagonal pyramidal caps and moulded courses. Two similar outer posts flank the main gates.
To the immediate west stands a set of simple wrought iron farm gates with matching gateposts, fronting a separate drive heading westward. The northern gatepost is shared between the house gates and the farm gates.
This entire gate screen was probably erected around 1840 to serve two drives serving the newly built Ardilea House. Before this time, there had been only one drive serving the older residence to the east, which still stands. The 1840s house was demolished in the mid-twentieth century (approximately 1965), and confusingly, its name was subsequently adopted by the older building to the east. The main drive now serves this latter property, while the drive with the farm gate serves a large recently built dwelling located on the site of the original 1840s Ardilea House.
The gate screen has group value with Ardilea House. The farm gate probably originally served as a tradesman's entrance.
Local climate
Gates at Ardilea House, 8 Ardilea Road, Ardilea, Clough, Downpatrick, BT 30 8SL sits in a wetter-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 990 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 79% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 86% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 4 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 98% of listed buildings. Of these, 2 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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