17a Main Street

Newtown Limavady, Causeway Coast and Glens, Northern Ireland

The record

Designation: Record only (not listed)
Grade: Record Only
Type: Shop
Date of listing: 28 March 1975
Date of delisting: 28 April 2000
Date of construction: 1860 - 1879
Address: 17a Main Street, Limavady, Co Londonderry, BT49 0EP
Townland: Newtown Limavady
Council: Causeway Coast and Glens
Country: Northern Ireland
Coordinates: 55.05121, -6.95253
Date of survey: 18 December 1997
HB reference: HB02/12/011 B

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The Department's description

Exterior description and setting

Ground floor restaurant of number 17 Main street. Facade facing south east onto street is rendered and painted to first floor level. Two double pane sash windows are closely spaced to the north east, a door with blocked rectangular fanlight is to the south west. The rear and first floor are part of the property owned by Mr David Brewster next door, see HB02/12/011A.

Historical information

See HB02/12/011A. Part of a late-Victorian pair of terraced houses.

Reference

Primary Sources:
OS Map 'Newtown Limavady' enlarged from 1st Edition Map (1831) PRONI: Val 2D/5/4 & T2933/4/126
OS Map 'Newtown Limavady' (1848 revision with notes of 1858 valuation) PRONI: 058/120/1/1 & T2933/3/140
OS Map ' Town of Limavady' (1895) PRONI:Val 2D/5/4 & 293/4/261
OS Map ' Town of Limavady' (1907) PRONI:058/120/2/3

Criteria for listing: architectural interest

Not listed

Criteria for listing: historic interest

Not listed

Evaluation

Part of a late Victorian pair of terraced houses which once fitted well into the more austere Georgian surroundings of Main Street. Inappropriate alterations have reduced the architectural quality of the group to the point where listing cannot be justified.

Nearby in the register

Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.

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