Historic Building Details

HB Ref No:
HB20/08/051

Address :
Wilderness Lodge, on the corner of Ballymena Road and Randalstown Road 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 8722

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Owner Category

Commercial

Exterior Description And Setting

Demolished and not replaced, and the site now occupied by a roadway. Described in the first survey in 1970 as "An L-shaped house, two storeys high, five bays wide on each façade. The walls are rendered and the roof is slated. All windows but one, which is plain sashed, have full glazing bars on the Ballymena Road elevation, and, all but two, which have coloured glazing, have full glazing bars on the Randalstown Road elevation. Both entrances are surmounted by segmental-arched fanlights, that on the Ballymena Road side has radial glazing."

Architects

Not Known

Historical Information

Precise date of building not recorded but part of it appears on the OS map of 1832, the rest appearing on the OS map of 1857. It may be presumed to have been mainly built in the mid-19th century. It became a convent for the Sisters of St Vincent around 1920. References – Primary Sources 1. OS Map 1832, Co Antrim 50 (shows south wing). 2. OS Map 1857, Co Antrim 50. Secondary Sources 1. UAHS, Antrim and Ballymena (Belfast, 1969), p 12. 2. A. Smyth, The Story of Antrim (Antrim, 1984), p 61.

Criteria for Listing

Architectural Interest

Not listed

Historic Interest

Not listed

Evaluation

Demolished and not replaced, and the site now occupied by a roadway.

General Comments

Date of Survey

06 November 2004