Historic Building Details

HB Ref No:
HB20/08/061

Address :
Technical School 28 Station 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
School

Conservation Area:
No

Industrial Archaeology:
No

Vernacular:
No

Thatched:
No

Monument:
No

Derelict:
Demolished

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OS Map No:
96-13 SE

IG Ref:
J1504 8676

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Owner Category

Central Govt

Exterior Description And Setting

Demolished to make way for a road. Described in the first survey in 1993 as "A two-storey building faced with artificial stone built on base courses of rustic brick in a plain modern style except for the shallow hipped roofs. Symmetrical facades. Small paned windows throughout. Rather drab."

Architects

Taggart, WDR

Historical Information

Designed in 1930 as a Technical School by W.D.R. Taggart and built in 1931. Demolished in 2003. References – Primary Sources 1. OS Map 1962, Co Antrim 50. 2. Site plan for proposed technical school dated 1930 and signed by W.D.R. Taggart and specification dated 1931. Secondary Sources 1. A. Smyth, The Story of Antrim (Antrim, 1984), p 90.

Criteria for Listing

Architectural Interest

Not listed

Historic Interest

Not listed

Evaluation

Demolished to make way for a road.

General Comments

Date of Survey

20 November 2004