Historic Building Details

HB Ref No:
HB06/04/034

Address :
168 Low Road Islandmagee Larne Co Antrim BT40 3RF

Townland:
Ballyharry

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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:
Yes

Derelict:
No

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OS Map No:
84/2

IG Ref:
J4626 9800

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Owner Category

Private

Exterior Description And Setting

A two-storey gabled house which displays a re-used historic architectural fragment in its outbuilding wing. The house itself retains its original sash windows to the ground floor front elevation but has had most of the rest of its original fabric replaced by inappropriate materials, including asbestos slate roof, rebuilt red brick chimneys, metal casement windows to dormer, a later flat-roofed porch on pre-cast concrete base walls, and PVC downpipes. Wing to west, of rubble, partly cement rendered, with corrugated asbestos roof. At right hand end of wing next to gable of house, a ledged door with sidelight; below cill of sidelight, a cusped sandstone recess in wall with dressed sandstone jambs and cill and traces of harling and limewashing inside recess and on sandstone opening. The sandstone fragments have the appearance of having come from the nearby church, St John’s Church of Ireland which dates from c 1600. SETTING: The house stands in a rural location with a number of farm buildings alongside it.

Architects

Not Known

Historical Information

Appears on OS map of 1832. It is reputed that Gilbert Laird, owner of the house at the time St John’s Church of Ireland church was being reduced in size in 1827, re-used some fragments of window tracery that were being discarded. The property lies within the site of a graveyard which is recorded as an ancient monument, SMR no. ANT41:17. References - Primary 1. OS Map 1832, Co Antrim 41.

Criteria for Listing

Architectural Interest

Not listed

Historic Interest

Not listed

Evaluation

A house of no special historical interest or architectural merit in itself, but it displays a re-used historical fragment in its outbuilding wing which is worth recording.

General Comments

Date of Survey

06 December 1997