Site of rectory

The Department's description

Exterior description and setting

Site, (on a rise to the north of St Patrick’s C of I church, north of Glenshesk Road, less than a mile east of Armoy), of a former rectory, built in 1807 and demolished in c.1977, with a new rectory built in its place.

The former rectory is described in the first survey of [?]Oct 1972 as:
‘A two-storey, three-bay roughcast house with slated roof and chimney to either gable. Centre bay projects to form porch, bargeboard is carved. Unrecessed Georgian-paned windows are 12-pane on ground floor, 9-paned above. Modern extension and harled and whitened outbuildings at rear’.

A long, two-storey, rubble-built gabled outbuilding has survived to the NE.

Historical information

According to Samuel Lewis’s ‘Topographical Dictionary’ of 1837, the rectory formerly occupying this site was built in 1807 at a cost of £376-10-4. It is shown on the OS map of 1832 and recorded in the valuation of November 1834 as measuring 40½ft x 20 x 16 for the main portion of the house, with a porch of 9 x 7 x 16, an ‘addition in rear’ of 15 x 19 x 16, and a ‘kitchen shed room’ of 14½ x 18½ x 15½. The outbuildings consisted of two and single storey ‘coach houses’, a ‘stable, barn and byre’, and a single-storey dairy. Similar dimensions are quoted for both house and outbuildings in the second valuation of 1859, although more of the latter had been added to the site by this date.

The building fell into disrepair in the 1970s and was demolished c.1977, with a new rectory subsequently built on the site.

References- Primary sources
1 PRONI OS/6/1/13/1 OS map, Co Antrim, sheet 13 (1832)
2 PRONI VAL/1B/130 First valuation, Armoy parish [Cary Barony] (1834)
3 OS Memoirs, Parish of Armoy, (1832-38), reprinted in ‘Ordnance Survey memoirs of Ireland…’ ed Angelique Day, Patrick McWilliams and Noirin Dobson (Belfast, QUB, 1994), p.4
4 Lewis, Samuel, ‘Topograhical Dictionary of Ireland’ vol.I (London, 1837)
5 PRONI OS/6/1/13/2 OS map, Co Antrim, sheet 13 (1857)
6 PRONI VAL/2B/1/23a Second valuation, Armoy parish [Cary Barony] (1859)
7 PRONI VAL/2B/1/23b Second valuation, Armoy parish [Cary Barony] (1859)
8 PRONI VAL/2B/1/37 Second valuation, Armoy parish [Upper Dunluce Barony] (1859)
9 PRONI VAL/12B/2/1a Annual valuation revision book, Armoy ED (1864-78)
10 PRONI VAL/12B/2/1b Annual valuation revision book, Armoy ED (1878-85)
11 PRONI VAL/12B/2/1c Annual valuation revision book, Armoy ED (1885-1900)
12 Bassett, George Henry, ‘The Book of County Antrim’ (Dublin, 1888), p.87
13 EHS (MBR) Photograph showing Armoy Presbyterian church, (c.1900)
14 PRONI VAL/12B/2/1d Annual valuation revision book, Armoy ED (1901-12)
15 PRONI OS/6/1/13/3 OS map, Co Antrim, sheet 13 (1906)
16 PRONI VAL/12B/2/1e Annual valuation revision book, Armoy ED (1912-29)
17 ‘Belfast and Province of Ulster Directory’ (Belfast, 1905)
18 PRONI VAL/3B/1/4 First general revaluation of Northern Ireland, Ballycastle RD (1935)
19 PRONI VAL/3C/1/4 First general revaluation of Northern Ireland [annual revisions], Ballycastle RD (1936-57) [This valuation book is currently closed ‘according to the criteria set out in the White Paper on Open Government’.]
20 PRONI VAL/4B/1/9 Second general revaluation of Northern Ireland [annual revisions], Ballycastle RD (1957-72)

Secondary sources
1 Girvan, W.D., ‘Historic Buildings…North Antrim’ (Belfast, 1972)

Other
references
1 EHS HB05/05/011 First Survey report (?Oct 1972)
2 EHS HB05/05/011 Photographs (Oct 1972, February 1977)

Criteria for listing: architectural interest

Not listed

Criteria for listing: historic interest

Not listed

Evaluation

Site of a former rectory, built in 1807 and demolished in c.1977, with a new rectory built in its place.