Historic Building Details

HB Ref No:
HB06/08/013

Address :
Larne and Inver Parish Church Hall Curran Road Larne Co Antrim

Townland:
None

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Survey 2:
Record Only

Date of Listing:

Date of De-listing:

Current Use:
Hall

Former Use
Hall

Conservation Area:
No

Industrial Archaeology:
No

Vernacular:
No

Thatched:
No

Monument:
No

Derelict:
No

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OS Map No:
70/8 SE

IG Ref:
D4070 0266

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Owner Category

Church - C of I

Exterior Description And Setting

A single storey church hall in rustic brick with gabled and hipped roof of Westmoreland green slates. The gabled and segmentally arched entrance porch containing a recessed three-light cusped fanlight imports a slight Tudor air to an otherwise plain design. Lead cupola on louvered roof ventilator; cast iron gutters and downpipes with ornamented hoppers; PVC replacement windows, fixed lights with side-hung casements, in rectangular openings; smooth cement render to rear wall. The building stands on a slightly elevated site facing a main road in the town, approached by a flight of steps, with a grassy lawn between it and the rustic brick boundary wall and railings.

Architects

Ferguson, Godfrey

Historical Information

Built as the parochial hall for St Cedma’s Church of Ireland church; designed in 1931 by Godfrey Ferguson; foundation stone laid 6 October 1931; opened 24 May 1932; builders, Hugh Girvan and Sons. References - Secondary 1. J.A. Fair, To This You Belong (Belfast, ND [1979]), pp 73-74.

Criteria for Listing

Architectural Interest

Not listed

Historic Interest

Not listed

Evaluation

A nicely composed building. A late and minor work by a well known architect of the time, which retains some original features but has had its original character seriously impaired by wholesale replacement of its windows in an inappropriate style.

General Comments

Date of Survey

20 December 1997