Historic Building Details

HB Ref No:
HB06/14/004

Address :
4 The Whins, Larne, Co Antrim BT40 3DS

Townland:
None

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Survey 2:
Record Only

Date of Listing:

Date of De-listing:

Current Use:
House

Former Use
House

Conservation Area:
No

Industrial Archaeology:
No

Vernacular:
No

Thatched:
No

Monument:
No

Derelict:
No

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OS Map No:
70/7

IG Ref:
D3900 0300

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Owner Category

Private

Exterior Description And Setting

A single storey flat roofed house in a modern style on an asymmetrical plan with a garage underneath one end. Roof covering of rubber with white stone chippings; walls of grey concrete brick; white painted sheeted fascia between parapet upstands, except for cedar panelled fascia to boxing over front steps. Some windows are full height in cedar frames with cedar lower panels; others are small metal framed side-hung casements set in wooden subframe. Projecting beam ends form a feature on two elevations. Open tread external staircase in timber and steel to entrance front, added 1973. The property sits on an elevated site at the head of a sloping lawn. Curved screen wall to front steps, with shared driveway and turning area laid out in conjunction with No. 3, built in a similar style.

Architects

Loggie, James

Historical Information

Designed for himself by James Loggie of Gerald R. Smith and Partners, architects of Belfast, c.1965; extended by same architect, again for himself, in 1973. References - Primary 1. Copy of architect’s plan for extension, 1973, in possession opf owners in 1997. 2. Information from owners.

Criteria for Listing

Architectural Interest

Not listed

Historic Interest

Not listed

Evaluation

An example of a post-war house designed in a thoroughly modern style, of some panache, but so extended that it cannot be considered a complete period-piece.

General Comments

Date of Survey

13 August 1997