Historic Buildings Record · Northern Ireland
Parochial House
Town Parks, Causeway Coast and Glens, Northern Ireland
The record
- Designation
- Record only (not listed)
- Grade
- Record Only
- Type
- Rectories/ Manses etc
- Date of construction
- 1860 - 1879
- Address
- Parochial House, 6 Market Street, Ballycastle, Co Antrim, BT54 6DP
- Townland
- Town Parks
- Council
- Causeway Coast and Glens
- Country
- Northern Ireland
- Coordinates
- 55.20154, -6.25128
- Date of survey
- 03 October 2000
- HB reference
- HB05/13/004 A
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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
A 2 storey 3 bay wide house, hipped roof and central chimney stacks.
The elevation to Market Street, is 3 bays wide with gabled projecting single storey porch, with single PVC 3 pane window. Door on flanking wall. On each side of porch single PVC 3 pane windows and at 1st floor 3 no. similar windows. ½ round gutter, natural slated roof with hips, plain ridge tile with 2 no. chimney stacks centred on short length of ridge. Walls smooth rendered, rusticated plaster quoins, painted. E & W gables have 2 no. windows each at ground and 1st floor, vertically over each other, PVC as before. To the rear a central lean-to roofed 2 storey back return with single sliding sash 2 pane window at ground and 1st floor. Back door on flanking wall.
The house is sited on rising ground overlooking Market Street with a pedestrian pathway to it. Vehicular access is from Moyle Road.
Historical information
The house probably dates from c 1870 when it was the minister’s residence. It is not indicated on the O.S. Map 1856. It became the residence of the Catholic curates in 1925 and before that it may have been the convent of the Cross and Passion nuns who came to Ballycastle in 1913. The entrance porch appears to have been added after 1970. More recently the windows replaced with uPVC type.
References
Primary Sources
1. O.S. Map 1832 Rev. 1856 Antrim sh. 8.
2. Catholic parish of Ballycastle Records.
3. Notes 1st Survey EHS Hill St, Belfast
Secondary Sources
1. UAHS, Glens of Antrim p. 49.
Criteria for listing: architectural interest
Not listed
Criteria for listing: historic interest
Not listed
Evaluation
A plain Victorian house of 2 storey and 3 bays wide built for the minister of the former adjacent Methodist church. It enjoys a commanding site but its appearance has been diluted by gabled entrance porch and insertion of uPVC windows.
Nearby in the register
- 10 Market StreetDemolishedunder 1 mi
- Scout HallRecreational Clubunder 1 mi
- Store near northeast end of Clare StreetStoreunder 1 mi
- Former Northern BankShopunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.