Historic Buildings Record · Northern Ireland
Postbox
Town Parks, Causeway Coast and Glens, Northern Ireland
The record
- Designation
- Listed building, Grade B2
- Grade
- B2
- Type
- Post Box
- Date of listing
- 27 February 2004
- Date of construction
- 1900 - 1919
- Address
- Postbox, Corner of Rathlin Road & Ann Street, Ballycastle, Co Antrim
- Townland
- Town Parks
- Council
- Causeway Coast and Glens
- Country
- Northern Ireland
- Coordinates
- 55.20266, -6.24708
- Date of survey
- 06 October 2000
- HB reference
- HB05/13/042
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 1883 "Scotland." (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries).
The Department's description
Exterior description and setting
A cast iron cylinder freestanding postbox with the insignia of Edward the Seventh on it. Painted red with flat dome top and black plinth. Postbox sited on inner side of footwalk against a low boundary wall.
Historical information
Manufactured and erected during or shortly after the reign of Edward VII (born 1841, reigned 1901-10).
Criteria for listing: architectural interest
A. Style
B. Proportion
C. Ornamentation
Criteria for listing: historic interest
X. Local Interest
Evaluation
An interesting and familiar red postbox of the reign of Edward VII.
Nearby in the register
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Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.