Historic Building Details

HB Ref No:
HB20/08/038

Address :
Bellmount Lodge Riverside Antrim

Townland:
Town Parks

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Survey 2:
Record Only

Date of Listing:

Date of De-listing:

Current Use:
Demolished

Former Use
Gates/ Screens/ Lodges

Conservation Area:
Yes

Industrial Archaeology:
No

Vernacular:
No

Thatched:
No

Monument:
No

Derelict:
Demolished

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OS Map No:
112-1

IG Ref:
J1505 8624

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Owner Category

Private

Exterior Description And Setting

Demolished and the site remains vacant. Described in the first survey in 1971 as "A small part octagonal building with rectangular extension to rear. The walls are harled and whitened on stone, the roofs are slated. The building is now boarded up and derelict."

Architects

Historical Information

Precise date of building not recorded but a portion of it appears on the OS map of 1832. The date 1752 was inscribed on an adjacent gate pier. Bellmount house and its associated buildings was originally built for the Cunningham family. References – Primary Sources 1. Datestone of 1752 on gate. 2. OS Map 1832, Co Antrim 50. Secondary Sources 1. J.A.K. Dean, The Gate Lodges of Ulster: a gazetteer (Belfast, 1994), p 5.

Criteria for Listing

Architectural Interest

Not listed

Historic Interest

Not listed

Evaluation

Demolished and the site remains vacant.

General Comments

Date of Survey

06 November 2004