Historic Building Details

HB Ref No:
HB05/14/018 A

Address :
The Promenade 7 North Street Ballycastle Co Antrim BT54 6BN

Townland:
Town Parks

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Survey 2:
B2

Date of Listing:
11/03/1981 00:00:00

Date of De-listing:

Current Use:
Shop - Terrace

Former Use
Shop - Terrace

Conservation Area:
Yes

Industrial Archaeology:
No

Vernacular:
No

Thatched:
No

Monument:
No

Derelict:
No

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OS Map No:
8/8 SE

IG Ref:
D1207 4123

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Owner Category

Private

Exterior Description And Setting

A 3 bay wide 3 storey building with shopfront. North St façade from left, 4 panelled door with plain fanlight to flats, panelled pilasters each side, door to shop with plain fanlight, panelled pilasters each side, large shop window divided in 4 with mullions, each light further subdivided with slim glazing bars into 4 panes. Over a name fascia full length of building with painted lettering, large ice cream cones at each end of fascia. Plaster panel and plinth under. At 1st floor 3 no. D/H S/S 12 pane windows which are repeated at 2nd floor. ½ round gutter over corbel course, natural slated roof and chimney stack at each end. Rear elevation: Main street-front block is 3-storey, 3 windows wide to second floor, with a long gabled 2-storey rear return projecting at the left-hand side. Main block roof is of artificial slates; pvc gutter and downpipes; walling is rendered with wet dash; windows are modern rectangular stained timber fixed lights with top-hung vents. Rear return is of similar materials with concrete cills. East side of rear return has a small lean-to boilerhouse with a modern metal flue; to left of two windows are two doors, modern timber boarded, and modern glazed and boarded. Ground floor of main block, to right of rear return, is abutted by a single storey lean-to porch: similar materials to main block, with timber eaves board; door to right-hand extremity modern rectangular timber boarded, with small glazed panel. South gable of rear return has one window to each storey; close up against gable is a single storey timber shed. Extending from the rear return on east side near rear is a screen wall to yard, smooth rendered, lined, and blocked, containing a segmental arched opening. Rear yard is concrete surfaced; boundary wall to east side rendered as screen wall; boundary wall to west side is rubble stone and brick; rear end of rear yard occupied by the shell of a 2-storey outbuilding or house, now derelict. The house is part of a terrace from Quay Road to Strandview Road with a constant building line with uninterrupted panorama of the sea.

Architects

Not Known

Historical Information

Precise date of building not known but it appears to be a mid-19th century or later rebuilding of an earlier property. References – Primary Sources 1. OS Maps 1855 and 1857, Co Antrim 5 and 9 (shows buildings on this and adjoining sites). 2. OS Map 1904, Co Antrim 5 and 9. Secondary Sources 1. DOENI, Ballycastle Conservation Area (ND), p 51.

Criteria for Listing

Architectural Interest

A. Style B. Proportion C. Ornamentation

Historic Interest

X. Local Interest

Evaluation

A mid 19th cent. 3 storey house with good proportions in Georgian style with complementary ground floor shopfront.

General Comments

Date of Survey

12 September 2000