Historic Building Details

HB Ref No:
HB06/07/007

Address :
Glebe House Ballymena Road Larne Co Antrim

Townland:
Glebe

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Survey 2:
Record Only

Date of Listing:

Date of De-listing:

Current Use:
House

Former Use
Rectories/ Manses etc

Conservation Area:
No

Industrial Archaeology:
No

Vernacular:
No

Thatched:
No

Monument:
No

Derelict:
No

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OS Map No:
70/11

IG Ref:
D3768 0112

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Owner Category

Private

Exterior Description And Setting

A two-storey house, formerly a rectory, of asymmetrical plan with dry-dash walls of stone chippings, and roof of Bangor blue slates in regular courses. Single-storey projecting curved porch contains two Gothic arched windows, one still retaining a timber sliding sash, vertically hung, window, 1 over 1, with horns, but otherwise windows are modernised using small paned top-hung and fixed lights, or plate glass replacements. Modern conservatory in PVC to south end. Setting: the house stands in a rural location with its back turned to a dual carriageway, and a spacious sloping garden to its front.

Architects

Not Known

Historical Information

Appears on OS map of 1832, marked as ‘Glebe’; appears in enlarged form on OS map of 1857, marked as Kilwaughter Rectory. References - Primary Sources 1. OS Map 1832, Co Antrim 40. 2. OS Map 1857, Co Antrim 40. 3. Ordnance Survey Memoirs of Ireland, Vol 10: Parishes of County Antrim III (belfast, 1991), p 116. 4. S. Lewis, A topographical dictionary of Ireland (London, 1837), p 219.

Criteria for Listing

Architectural Interest

Not listed

Historic Interest

Not listed

Evaluation

This is a house of Georgian foundation which still retains a few original features but whose original architectural character has now been seriously eroded by inappropriate alterations and additions.

General Comments

Date of Survey

28 March 1998