10 The Diamond

The Department's description

Exterior description and setting

A 3 bay wide 2 storey building with 2 shopfronts.

At ground floor from right a single storey flat roofed front return with shop door with fanlight and 2 large pane shop windows. In the centre of building a panelled door with fanlight to accommodation on first floor. In 3rd bay a shopfront with segmental arch containing name fascia with painted lettering. Below shop door and window. Encompassing all a moulded architrave.

At 1st floor 3 D/H S/S 12 pane windows widely spaced. ½ round metal gutter, natural slated roof, gabled at one end with chimney stack and thin barge stones. Walls smooth rendered and painted (unfortunately different colours to each shop).

The gable wall and flanking wall of front return are windowless, smooth rendered and unpainted. There is an iron gateway, with iron archway incorporating fruiterer’s name at laneway leading to rear of premises.

No. 10 fronts onto the Diamond with wide paved area in front. The fruiterer shop extends onto part of this paved area.

Historical information

Precise date of building not recorded but the main block of it appears for the first time on the OS map of 1857; the front projection appears on the OS map of 1904.

References – Primary Sources
1. OS Map 1832, Co Antrim 8.
2. OS Map 1857, Co Antrim 8.
3. OS Map 1904, Co Antrim 8.
4. Photograph in Lawrence Collection, National Library of Ireland, Dublin: Ref No 10132 (shows the entrance façade of the front projection as having a triangular pediment surmounting it).

Criteria for listing: architectural interest

Not listed

Criteria for listing: historic interest

Not listed

Evaluation

This is a mid-Victorian building with a late Victorian or Edwardian addition to the front, of no special architectural or historic interest, which has now lost some of its original features.