Historic Buildings Record · Northern Ireland
Limavady High School
Newtown Limavady, Causeway Coast and Glens, Northern Ireland
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
Slide toward Today to fade the historical sheet and see the modern map underneath.
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Shown on 4 historical map sheets, the earliest the 1900 "Ireland" (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries).
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
- Methodist ChurchChurchunder 1 mi
- 2nd Presbyterian Church LimavadyChurchunder 1 mi
- 55 Irish Green StreetHouse - Terraceunder 1 mi
- 53 Irish Green StreetHouse - Terraceunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.