Historic Building Details

HB Ref No:
HB06/12/015

Address :
Post Office 78 Main Street Larne Co Antrim BT40 1RE

Townland:
Town Parks

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Survey 2:
Record Only

Date of Listing:

Date of De-listing:

Current Use:
Post Office

Former Use
Post Office

Conservation Area:
No

Industrial Archaeology:
No

Vernacular:
No

Thatched:
No

Monument:
No

Derelict:
No

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OS Map No:
70/8 SW

IG Ref:
D4024 0262

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Owner Category

Public Body

Exterior Description And Setting

A single-storey building in rustic brick with a Portland stone plinth and string course designed in Neo-Georgian style with round arched openings and slated hipped roofs. Some original glazing bars retained but most removed. The building stands in the main street of the town, directly onto the pavement, abutted on the left by a terrace of two-storey houses with shops, and on the right by its own single-storey flat-roofed post-2nd World War extension.

Architects

Northern Ireland Office of Works

Historical Information

Date of building not recorded but stylistically is a work of the 1930s; attributable to the architects of the Northern Ireland Office of Works.

Criteria for Listing

Architectural Interest

Not listed

Historic Interest

Not listed

Evaluation

An example of an inter-war building of formal design in a Neo-Georgian style but one which has been spoiled by alterations to widows.

General Comments

Date of Survey

15 February 1998