Historic Buildings Record · Northern Ireland
Play House Cinema
Causeway Coast and Glens, Northern Ireland
The record
- Designation
- Record only (not listed)
- Grade
- Record Only
- Type
- Entertainment Building
- Address
- Play House Cinema, 47 Main Street, Portrush, Co. Antrim, BT56 8BL
- Council
- Causeway Coast and Glens
- Country
- Northern Ireland
- Coordinates
- 55.20732, -6.65419
- Date of survey
- 11 February 2013
- HB reference
- HB03/10/053
Slide toward Today to fade the historical sheet and see the modern map underneath.
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Shown on 5 historical map sheets, the earliest the 1827 "Antrim, Raghery." (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries).
The Department's description
Exterior description and setting
This building was surveyed in the First Survey but not listed. A partial record only was taken during the Second Survey as the building is not worthy of a full survey.
A former cinema building located in Main Street Portrush, built c.1950 with characteristic vertical emphasis and modernist devices. Now converted for use as an entertainment complex with replacement fabric and features.
Criteria for listing: architectural interest
Not listed
Criteria for listing: historic interest
Not listed
Evaluation
This building was surveyed in the First Survey but not listed. A partial record only was taken during the Second Survey as the building is not worthy of a full survey.
A former cinema building located in Main Street Portrush, built c.1950 with characteristic vertical emphasis and modernist devices. Now converted for use as an entertainment complex with replacement fabric and features.
General comments
This building was surveyed in the First Survey but not listed. A partial record only was taken during the Second Survey as the building is not worthy of a full survey.
A former cinema building located in Main Street Portrush, built c.1950 with characteristic vertical emphasis and modernist devices. Now converted for use as an entertainment complex with replacement fabric and features.
Nearby in the register
- The White HouseShopunder 1 mi
- 59-61 Main StreetShopunder 1 mi
- 61 Main Street, Portrush, Co AntrimShopunder 1 mi
- 63-65 Main StreetShopunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.