Historic Building Details

HB Ref No:
HB06/06/013

Address :
Corn Mills, on opposite side of river from St John's C of I Church Glynn Larne Co Antrim

Townland:
Glynn

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Survey 2:
Record Only

Date of Listing:

Date of De-listing:

Current Use:
Outbuildings

Former Use
Mill

Conservation Area:
No

Industrial Archaeology:
Yes

Vernacular:
No

Thatched:
No

Monument:
No

Derelict:
No

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OS Map No:
70/16

IG Ref:
J4064 9977

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Owner Category

Private

Exterior Description And Setting

A plain rectangular gabled building, originally a corn mill, but now a playground shelter, with a mill wheel of iron with wooden spokes attached to the south gable. Concrete tiled roof, dry dash finish to walls. Open doorway without doors. It stands in a children’s play-park. Described in the first survey in 1970 as 'A black and white stone building with slated roof; retains a water wheel beside one gable'.

Architects

Not Known

Historical Information

Appeared on OS map of 1832. References - Primary 1. OS Map 1832, Co Antrim 40. 2. Ordnance Survey Memoirs of Ireland: Parishes of County Antrim X, Vol 26 (Belfast, 19940, pp 5, 37-38. Secondary 1. IHR 6974.

Criteria for Listing

Architectural Interest

Not listed

Historic Interest

Not listed

Evaluation

Much altered former corn mill now of little architectural interest.

General Comments

Date of Survey

04 September 1997