Historic Building Details

HB Ref No:
HB20/08/046

Address :
1 & 3 Castle Street Antrim

Townland:
Town Parks

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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:
96-13

IG Ref:
J1468 8677

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Owner Category

Commercial

Exterior Description And Setting

Demolished to make way for a car park. Described in the first survey in 1970 as "A pair of cottages built of coursed rubble blackstone with blue brick block dressings to plain sashed windows and doors. Upper windows are set in half dormers; all roofs are slated with cresting on ridges. Chimneys are of red brick. The entrances are contained in projecting porches; slated doors are surmounted by horizontal lattice paned fanlights."

Architects

Not Known

Historical Information

Precise date of buildings not recorded but stylistically they may be dated to the late Victorian period. References – Primary Sources 1. OS Map 1962, Co Antrim 50. Secondary Sources 1. UAHS, Antrim and Ballymena (Belfast, 1969), p 10. 2. J. Hanna, Old Antrim (Catrine, Ayrshire, 2002), p 17 (the south gable of the block appears in an old photograph of Castle Street).

Criteria for Listing

Architectural Interest

Not listed

Historic Interest

Not listed

Evaluation

Demolished to make way for a car park.

General Comments

Date of Survey

06 November 2004