Historic Building Details

HB Ref No:
HB20/08/049

Address :
Former School House, off east side of 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
School

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:
J1479 8704

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Owner Category

Commercial

Exterior Description And Setting

Demolished and the site remains vacant. Described in the first survey in 1971 as "A two-storey house with harled walls and hipped slated roof, four bays wide. Unrecessed D/H windows have sashes divided vertically into two panes. A timber porch protects the entrance. Not of high interest."

Architects

Not Known

Historical Information

Built in 1815 as a school at the expense of Viscount Massereene. Castle Street was previously known as Bow Lane, and appears as such on the OS maps of 1832 and 1857. The location was behind the property formerly known as No 98 Castle Street but now replaced by a new property which is known as No 4 Castle Street (but is not to be confused with the former 4 Castle Street which is recorded at HB20/08/045). References – Primary Sources 1. OS Map 1832, Co Antrim 50 (marked as a school house). 2. Ordnance Survey Memoirs of Ireland, Vol 29: Parishes of County Antrim XI, 1832-3, 1835-9 (Belfast, 1995), p 9 (gives date as 1815). Secondary Sources 1. A. Smyth, The Story of Antrim (Antrim, 1984), p 62 (refers to the school as an Erasmus School but gives date 1812).

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