Historic Building Details

HB Ref No:
HB06/05/013 H

Address :
North Lodge to Red Hall 75 Hillhead Road Ballycarry Larne Co Antrim BT38 9JF

Townland:
Redhall

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Survey 2:
Record Only

Date of Listing:

Date of De-listing:

Current Use:
Gates/ Screens/ Lodges

Former Use
Gates/ Screens/ Lodges

Conservation Area:
No

Industrial Archaeology:
No

Vernacular:
No

Thatched:
No

Monument:
No

Derelict:
No

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OS Map No:
84/10

IG Ref:
J4459 9505

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Owner Category

Private

Exterior Description And Setting

A 1½ storey, three-bay gabled house with dry dash render to walls using blackstone chippings; segmental headed windows, timber sliding sash, 1 over 1, with horns; roof slated but covered with bitumen; one chimney smooth cement rendered; turned wooden finial to gable of porch and left-hand gable of house, but missing to right-hand gable; PVC rainwater goods; low rear extension has rectangular windows, modern timber casements. Gateway comprises a pair of large square piers of greystone rubble in courses with block dressings of brick; rough greystone copings; top portion of right-hand pier knocked off and lying on ground. Screen walls to each side, of greystone rubble; no gates. Setting: the lodge stands inside a rear entrance gateway to Red Hall with a lawn to the front and agricultural land to the rear.

Architects

Not Known

Historical Information

Built as a gate lodge to Red Hall. Appears on OS map of 1902; does not appear on map of 1858; precise year of building not known but may date from late 19th century. References - Primary Sources 1. OS Map 1902, Co Antrim 47. Secondary Sources 1. J.A.K. Dean, The Gate Lodges of Ulster (UAHS, Belfast, 1994), p 25.

Criteria for Listing

Architectural Interest

Not listed

Historic Interest

Not listed

Evaluation

A modest building of some interest as part of an important estate but itself of no special historic interest or intrinsic architectural merit.

General Comments

Date of Survey

07 August 1998