Historic Building Details

HB Ref No:
HB05/14/041

Address :
Coastguard Look-Out Clare Road Ballycastle Co Antrim

Townland:
Town Parks

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Survey 2:
Record Only

Date of Listing:

Date of De-listing:

Current Use:
Coastguard Station

Former Use
Coastguard Station

Conservation Area:
No

Industrial Archaeology:
Yes

Vernacular:
No

Thatched:
No

Monument:
No

Derelict:
Partially

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OS Map No:
8/8 NE

IG Ref:
D1160 4189

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Owner Category

Central Govt

Exterior Description And Setting

A 2 storey modern building sited on cliff edge adjacent to the ruins of Dunineny Castle. A small rectangular 2 storey building with lean-to roof which served as a coastguard lookout. The ground floor built of masonry and rendered with Tyrolean plaster and the minimum of door and window. The first floor clad with horizontal clap boarding with a projecting balcony on the seaward side protected by steel open railing with wide observation window overlooking balcony and sea. This window is returned a short distance on each flanking wall. Windows and doors are all boarded up.

Architects

Not Known

Historical Information

Precise date of building not known but it appears on the OS map of 1970-2. Built as a Coastguard Lookout. Stylistically it may be dated to the 1950s or 1960s. Closed in the late 1970s. References – Primary Sources 1. OS Map of 1970-2, Co Antrim 8. Secondary Sources 1. F. Hamond, Antrim Coast and Glens Industrial Heritage (HMSO, Belfast, 1991), p 68.

Criteria for Listing

Architectural Interest

Not listed

Historic Interest

Not listed

Evaluation

This is a post 2nd World War building in a modern style which has been inappropriately altered, is now partially derelict, and is of no special architectural or historic interest.

General Comments

Date of Survey

17 September 2000