Historic Building Details

HB Ref No:
HB20/04/058

Address :
Deerpark Cottage Randalstown Forest Mount Shalgus Lane Randalstown Antrim Co Antrim

Townland:
Shane's Castle Park

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Survey 2:
Record Only

Date of Listing:

Date of De-listing:

Current Use:
Demolished

Former Use
House

Conservation Area:
No

Industrial Archaeology:
No

Vernacular:
No

Thatched:
No

Monument:
No

Derelict:
Demolished

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OS Map No:
95/15

IG Ref:
J0882 8721

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Owner Category

Private

Exterior Description And Setting

This building has been demolished and the site grown over and absorbed into the forest. It was described in the first survey in 1971 as "An octagonal blackstone two storey house. Stonework of walls is in vertical wedge-shaped tiles in square plan; corners are supported on vermiculated circular columns. A single-storey semi-circular bay projects toward the lough. The entrance is contained in a splayed recess; double doors are diagonally sheeted; windows are timber boarded. Rusticated stone used on chimney stack. Interesting plan shapes. Building is now derelict."

Architects

Not Known

Historical Information

Built by Lord O'Neill as a lakeside cottage within the Shane's Castle estate; precise date of building not known but it appears on the OS map of 1829 & 32 as a small octagonal building, but not named; named 'Harris Cottage' on the OS map of 1858, and renamed 'Deerpark Cottage' on the maps of 1902 and 1921. Described in the 1830s as "on the edge of the lake, a very pretty rustic stone cottage in which his lordship has some private apartments". With successive lowering of the level of the lough from the mid-19th century on, the cottage was latterly left standing some distance in from the shoreline. Described as derelict by 1971 it was subsequently demolished, after the deerpark at Shane's Castle had come into the possession of the Forest Service. References – Primary Sources 1. OS Map 1829 & 32, Co Antrim 49 (shows an octagonal building, not named). 2. OS Map 1858, Co Antrim 49 (building appears in final form, named as 'Harris Cottage'). 3. OS Map 1902, Co Antrim 49 (named as 'Deerpark Cottage'). 4. OS Map 1921, Co Antrim 49 (named as 'Deerpark Cottage'). 5. Ordnance Survey Memoirs of Ireland, Vol 19: Parishes of County Antrim VI, 1830, 1833, 1835-8 (Belfast, 1993), p 50. Secondary Sources 1. C.E.B. Brett, The Buildings of County Antrim (UAHS, Belfast, 1996), p 267.

Criteria for Listing

Architectural Interest

Not listed

Historic Interest

Not listed

Evaluation

This building has been demolished and the site grown over.

General Comments

Date of Survey

04 September 2000