Historic Building Details

HB Ref No:
HB20/08/047

Address :
5-9 Castle Street Antrim

Townland:
Town Parks

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Survey 2:
Record Only

Date of Listing:
28/04/1981 00:00:00

Date of De-listing:
25/06/1990 00:00:00

Current Use:
Demolished

Former Use
House - Terrace

Conservation Area:
Yes

Industrial Archaeology:
No

Vernacular:
No

Thatched:
No

Monument:
No

Derelict:
Demolished

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OS Map No:
96-13 SE

IG Ref:
J1468 8679

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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 two-storey nine bay terrace with rendered walls, quoins at one extremity and slated roofs. Chimneys are rendered. All windows are D/H with full glazing bars. Chimneys are of red brick. The entrances of nos 5 and 7 are panelled and surmounted by plain rectangular fanlights. No 9 is shopped, double doors are flanked by twin four-pane windows with elliptical arched heads to twin lights."

Architects

Not Known

Historical Information

Precise date of buildings not recorded but stylistically they may be dated to the mid Victorian period. References – Primary Sources 1. OS Map 1857, 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