The Promenade

The Department's description

Exterior description and setting

A 3 bay wide 3 storey building with shopfront.

North St façade from left, 4 panelled door with plain fanlight to flats, panelled pilasters each side, door to shop with plain fanlight, panelled pilasters each side, large shop window divided in 4 with mullions, each light further subdivided with slim glazing bars into 4 panes. Over a name fascia full length of building with painted lettering, large ice cream cones at each end of fascia. Plaster panel and plinth under. At 1st floor 3 no. D/H S/S 12 pane windows which are repeated at 2nd floor. ½ round gutter over corbel course, natural slated roof and chimney stack at each end.

Rear elevation: Main street-front block is 3-storey, 3 windows wide to second floor, with a long gabled 2-storey rear return projecting at the left-hand side. Main block roof is of artificial slates; pvc gutter and downpipes; walling is rendered with wet dash; windows are modern rectangular stained timber fixed lights with top-hung vents. Rear return is of similar materials with concrete cills. East side of rear return has a small lean-to boilerhouse with a modern metal flue; to left of two windows are two doors, modern timber boarded, and modern glazed and boarded. Ground floor of main block, to right of rear return, is abutted by a single storey lean-to porch: similar materials to main block, with timber eaves board; door to right-hand extremity modern rectangular timber boarded, with small glazed panel.
South gable of rear return has one window to each storey; close up against gable is a single storey timber shed. Extending from the rear return on east side near rear is a screen wall to yard, smooth rendered, lined, and blocked, containing a segmental arched opening.
Rear yard is concrete surfaced; boundary wall to east side rendered as screen wall; boundary wall to west side is rubble stone and brick; rear end of rear yard occupied by the shell of a 2-storey outbuilding or house, now derelict.

The house is part of a terrace from Quay Road to Strandview Road with a constant building line with uninterrupted panorama of the sea.

Historical information

Precise date of building not known but it appears to be a mid-19th century or later rebuilding of an earlier property.

References – Primary Sources
1. OS Maps 1855 and 1857, Co Antrim 5 and 9 (shows buildings on this and adjoining sites).
2. OS Map 1904, Co Antrim 5 and 9.

Secondary Sources
1. DOENI, Ballycastle Conservation Area (ND), p 51.

Criteria for listing: architectural interest

A. Style
B. Proportion
C. Ornamentation

Criteria for listing: historic interest

X. Local Interest

Evaluation

A mid 19th cent. 3 storey house with good proportions in Georgian style with complementary ground floor shopfront.