Historic Building Details

HB Ref No:
HB20/08/027

Address :
2 Fountain Street Antrim BT41 4BB

Townland:
Town Parks

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Survey 2:
Record Only

Date of Listing:

Date of De-listing:

Current Use:
Shop

Former Use
School

Conservation Area:
Yes

Industrial Archaeology:
No

Vernacular:
No

Thatched:
No

Monument:
No

Derelict:
No

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OS Map No:
96-13SE

IG Ref:
J1520 8651

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Owner Category

Commercial

Exterior Description And Setting

A two-storey building, three windows wide to the first floor, with a modern shop front to the ground floor. Main entrance faces north. North elevation has snecked blackstone rubble to the gabled first floor; three rectangular timber 2-light casement windows set in white painted block dressings with chamfered reveals; apex of gable contains a plaque inscribed ‘Antrim National School 1841’. Ground floor has shop front of modern style with roller metal shutters to window and door. West elevation: roof of synthetic slates with modern flush rooflight; wall of roughcast render; four windows of modern plate glass. Rear elevation: rendered gable, with dashed finish; flat roofed later lower extension of similar walling to side and rear of main block. SETTING: The building stands facing the main street of the town, with a pedestrian lane along its side elevation.

Architects

Not Known

Historical Information

Built in 1841 as a National School. References – Primary Sources 1. Datestone of 1841 on building. 2. OS Map 1857, Co Antrim 50. Secondary Sources 1. UAHS, Antrim and Ballymena (Belfast, 1969), p 9.

Criteria for Listing

Architectural Interest

Not listed

Historic Interest

Not listed

Evaluation

This is an early Victorian building which has lost its original character and some of its original features.

General Comments

Date of Survey

06 November 2004