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Limavady High School

Newtown Limavady, Causeway Coast and Glens, Northern Ireland

Ordnance Survey six-inch map, 2nd edition (1888–1915) covering the location of Limavady High School, Newtown Limavady, Causeway Coast and Glens, with a pin at the register's coordinates
Ordnance Survey six-inch map, 2nd edition (1888–1915), covering this location. Courtesy of the National Library of Scotland. The pin is ours, placed from the register's coordinates.

The record

Designation
Record only (not listed)
Grade
Record Only
Type
Demolished
Date of construction
1920 - 1939
Address
Limavady High School, Irish Green Street, Limavady, Co Londonderry, BT49 9AA
Townland
Newtown Limavady
Council
Causeway Coast and Glens
Country
Northern Ireland
Coordinates
55.04820, -6.94760
Date of survey
05 January 1998
HB reference
HB02/12/037

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David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries

3 historical maps cover this location, the earliest the 1900 map "Ireland" (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries).

Historical maps covering this location

  • 1900 · Ireland (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
  • 1906 · Edinburgh. Scottish Lake District. Index Map: Ireland. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
  • 1922 · Ireland - northern section. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)

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The Department's description

Exterior description and setting

Former Neo-Georgian brick secondary school now demolished and replaced by a much larger school. Entrance pillars remain on boundary wall. Some in cut sandstone with pyramidal cap others in rendered concrete block.

Described in the first survey in 1993 as 'A single-storey hipped-roofed building in rustic brick with reconstituted stone dressings, in neo-Georgian style consisting of a central five-bay block which is surmounted by a square cupolaed clock turret, flanked symmetrically by lower three-bay wings which contain projecting porch entrances. There are no interiors of any distinction but the long main entrance front is a fine piece of neo-Georgian design in brick and presents an attractive appearance to the main road.'

Historical information

Designed by the Northern Ireland Ministry of Finance architects’ Department under R I Smith in 1931-2. It was in continuous use as a school until demolished as part of a redevelopment in the mid 1990s.

References:

Historic Buildings files
Girvan W D, Buildings of North Derry U A H S p.15 & 17.

Criteria for listing: architectural interest

Not listed

Criteria for listing: historic interest

Not listed

Evaluation

Demolished.

Nearby in the register

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

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