13 Ann Street

The Department's description

Exterior description and setting

3 storey 2 bay wide with basement and shopfront.

At ground floor a timber framed shop window and door with rendered finish wall under cill and a plain pilaster on each side. The name fascia extends width of façade. First floor windows are new rectangular timber sliding sash, 2 over 2, with horns, set in plain reveals, with projecting concrete cills.
Wall smooth rendered, lined and blocked with projecting eaves course and timber eaves board; ½ round gutter, shared cast iron downpipes with No. 11.
Roof of Bangor blue slates in regular courses, common with No. 15.

Rear elevation: roof of main street front block is of artificial slates, common with No. 15, with one modern rooflight; no chimney. Walling is smooth rendered, with timber eaves board; looks like pvc gutter; one small rectangular window, looks like pvc.
Projecting from rear wall of main block is a very long two-storey rear return: walls rendered, wet dash; pitched roofs of concrete tiles. Rectangular pvc windows in side walls and gable; pvc rainwater goods. Gable of rear return has a steel fire escape. Rear boundary comprises a steel sheeted doorscreen set between rendered piers.

Historical information

Precise date of building not known: buildings are shown in the area of this and neighbouring houses on the OS map of 1832, probably dating from the mid-1700s when the town was developed. An approximately similar block is shown on the OS map of 1857, but by 1904 the individual buildings in the block are distinguishable: this one is shown in 1904 as having no return. While the original street front block and ridge height may thus date from the mid-18th century there appear to be no surviving features from that period; any surviving features such as fenestration pattern and size date probably from the mid-to late 19th century, while recent alterations have now determined much of the overall character of the building.
Interior rebuilt since 2000.

References – Primary Sources
1. OS Map 1832, Co Antrim 9.
2. OS Map 1857, Co Antrim 9.
3. OS Map 1904, Co Antrim 9.

Secondary Sources
1. UAHS, Glens of Antrim (Belfast, 1971), p. 51.

Criteria for listing: architectural interest

Not listed

Criteria for listing: historic interest

Not listed

Evaluation

A 3 storey 2 bay wide building with basement and shopfront.This is a building which was probably originally of mid-18th century foundation but which has been altered at various times up to the recent past, this has resulted in an absence of historic features of distinctive quality.