Historic Building Details

HB Ref No:
HB20/08/029

Address :
26-30 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:
House

Former Use
House

Conservation Area:
Yes

Industrial Archaeology:
No

Vernacular:
No

Thatched:
No

Monument:
No

Derelict:
No

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OS Map No:
96-14 SW

IG Ref:
J1527 8651

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Owner Category

Private

Exterior Description And Setting

A two-storey, 9-bay terrace with slated roofs; rendered walls, with quoins to extremities; a former central coachway entrance with elliptical arch has been blocked up and contains a new window. Windows to nos. 26 and 28 retain original timber sashes, 2 over 2, with horns, but the remainder have modern fixed lights with top-hung vents. No. 30 has the ground floor shopped containing modern timber framed windows. Three chimneys remain, in red brick; one chimney removed. SETTING: The buildings stand facing the main street of the town.

Architects

Not Known

Historical Information

Precise date of buildings not recorded but they appear on the OS map of 1857. References – Primary Sources 1. 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 a terrace of probably mid-19th century date which has had its original character changed and is of little architectural or historic interest.

General Comments

Date of Survey

06 November 2004