Historic Buildings Record · Northern Ireland
Scout Hall
Town Parks, Causeway Coast and Glens, Northern Ireland
The record
- Designation
- Record only (not listed)
- Grade
- Record Only
- Type
- Recreational Club
- Date of construction
- 1820 - 1839
- Address
- Scout Hall, 8 Market Street, Ballycastle, Co Antrim, BT54 6DP
- Townland
- Town Parks
- Council
- Causeway Coast and Glens
- Country
- Northern Ireland
- Coordinates
- 55.20145, -6.25163
- Date of survey
- 18 September 2000
- HB reference
- HB05/13/004 B
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Shown on 5 historical map sheets, the earliest the 1817 "Ireland." (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries).
The Department's description
Exterior description and setting
A 4 bay long single storey former church building with gabled porch.
Entrance elevation gabled projecting porch with gable central circular window with plain architrave. Entrance door on S facing flanking wall. Concrete precast barge stones. S wall has 4 no. roundheaded vertical windows with margin subdivided into small panes and centre consisting of 4 larger panes, top segmented. At E end of wall a single sheeted door. E gable windowless, N wall has a lean-to narrow structure abutting it. Wall roughcast and painted. Roof slated, gabled with bargeboards. The building sited at an acute angle to Market Street, though when first built, entrance was from Moyle/Clare Street.
Historical information
The Methodist chapel was built here prior to 1831. The O.S. Memoirs records a Methodist chapel here in 1831. Ceased as a Methodist place of worship after World War One. It is now the premises of 1st Antrim SICSI small adaptations have been made for this purpose.
References
Primary Sources
1. O.S. Map 1832 Antrim sh. 8.
2. O.S. Map 1832 Revised 1856 Antrim sh. 8.
3. O.S. Memoirs of Ireland, Parishes of Co Antrim IX, 1830-2, 1835, 1838-9
Ed by Angelique Day, Patrick McWilliams and Noirin Dobson p. 94.
4. 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
An unpretentious small 4 bay long former Methodist church of c 1830 neatly sited at an acute angle to Market Street. Not of 'special' architectural or historical interest however.
Nearby in the register
- 10 Market StreetDemolishedunder 1 mi
- Parochial HouseRectories/ Manses etcunder 1 mi
- Former Northern BankShopunder 1 mi
- Store near northeast end of Clare StreetStoreunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.