Historic Buildings Record · Northern Ireland
Coastguard Look-Out
Town Parks, Causeway Coast and Glens, Northern Ireland
The record
- Designation
- Record only (not listed)
- Grade
- Record Only
- Type
- Coastguard Station
- Date of construction
- 1940 - 1959
- Address
- Coastguard Look-Out, Clare Road, Ballycastle, Co Antrim
- Townland
- Town Parks
- Council
- Causeway Coast and Glens
- Country
- Northern Ireland
- Coordinates
- 55.21146, -6.24753
- Date of survey
- 17 September 2000
- HB reference
- HB05/14/041
Slide toward Today to fade the historical sheet and see the modern map underneath.
National Library of ScotlandDavid Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford LibrariesNational Library of Scotland
Shown on 3 historical map sheets, the earliest the 1922 "Scotland - southern section." (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries).
The Department's description
Exterior description and setting
A 2 storey modern building sited on cliff edge adjacent to the ruins of Dunineny Castle.
A small rectangular 2 storey building with lean-to roof which served as a coastguard lookout. The ground floor built of masonry and rendered with Tyrolean plaster and the minimum of door and window. The first floor clad with horizontal clap boarding with a projecting balcony on the seaward side protected by steel open railing with wide observation window overlooking balcony and sea. This window is returned a short distance on each flanking wall. Windows and doors are all boarded up.
Historical information
Precise date of building not known but it appears on the OS map of 1970-2. Built as a Coastguard Lookout. Stylistically it may be dated to the 1950s or 1960s. Closed in the late 1970s.
References – Primary Sources
1. OS Map of 1970-2, Co Antrim 8.
Secondary Sources
1. F. Hamond, Antrim Coast and Glens Industrial Heritage (HMSO, Belfast, 1991), p 68.
Criteria for listing: architectural interest
Not listed
Criteria for listing: historic interest
Not listed
Evaluation
This is a post 2nd World War building in a modern style which has been inappropriately altered, is now partially derelict, and is of no special architectural or historic interest.
Nearby in the register
- Dunineny Castle RuinsCastleunder 1 mi
- KenmaraHouseunder 1 mi
- 5 Old Coastguard CottagesHouse - Terraceunder 1 mi
- Water PumpPumpunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.