Historic Building Details

HB Ref No:
HB06/06/005

Address :
Larne Railway Station Circular Road Facing along Station Road Larne Co Antrim

Townland:
None

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Survey 2:
Record Only

Date of Listing:

Date of De-listing:

Current Use:
Demolished

Former Use
Railway Station Structures

Conservation Area:
No

Industrial Archaeology:
Yes

Vernacular:
No

Thatched:
No

Monument:
No

Derelict:
Demolished

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OS Map No:
70/12

IG Ref:
D4008 0228

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Owner Category

Commercial

Exterior Description And Setting

This building has been demolished to make way for a new road layout together with a supermarket development. Described in the first survey in 1970 as follows - 'mid 19th century. The station has been heavily overpainted, the adjoining covered platform is of some interest; the roof supported by timber columns and trusses is finished by a sheeted fascia with carved motif.'

Architects

Lanyon, Charles Wise, Berkley D

Historical Information

Built for the Carrickfergus and Larne Railway Company to the designs of its engineer Charles Lanyon; date uncertain but a station appeared on the OS map of 1857. Later additions were built by B. D. Wise in the 1890s. Closed in 1974 and demolished c 1979. References - Primary 1. OS Map 1857, Co Antrim 40. 2. Photograph in Green Collection, UFTM (WAG 527), c 1915. Secondary 1. W. A. McCutcheon, The Industrial Archaeology of Northern Ireland (HMSO, Belfast, 1980), p 172 (gives date of station as 1862). 2. D Corcoran, A Tour of East Antrim (Belfast 1990), p 3 (reproduces a photograph from the Green Collection). 3. IHR 5585

Criteria for Listing

Architectural Interest

Not listed

Historic Interest

Not listed

Evaluation

Demolished and replaced by a new road layout together with a supermarket development; with a new station opened nearer the town centre.

General Comments

Date of Survey

05 September 1997