1 Castle Lane

The Department's description

Exterior description and setting

Picturesque, two storey gabled gamekeeper’s lodge of 1875 in basalt rubble with painted dressings and a small gabled porch. The house is sited on the far W of Glenarm Demesne, just to the E of Munie Road.

The front (E) elevation is symmetrical. To the centre of the ground floor is the partially glazed panelled front door centred within the gable of a small porch with overhanging slated roof with decorative pierced bargeboards. The doorway has painted stone in-out dressings with keystone inscribed with the date 1875. To each of the N and S faces of the porch there is a narrow two-pane window with dressings as before. To either side of the porch (to main house) is a sash window with Georgian panes (6/6) and dressings as before. To the first floor there are three similar windows.

The S gable has one window to ground floor and one to the first floor, both as front, with a small centre pivot window to attic level.

To the ground floor right of the N gable is a window as front but 6/3. To the first floor right is a window as front. Attic window as S gable.

To the left side of the rear W elevation is a partly glazed door. To the right is a window, as front with two more to right on first floor. To the right side of the first floor are two sash windows, as before.

The entire façade is in basalt rubble with painted stone quoins and dressings. All openings have a shallow stone relieving arch over. The gabled roof is slated and has an overhang with decorative pierced barges. Two central rendered chimneystacks. Cast iron rw goods.

Outside toilet to N. Kennels to S.

Historical information

This house was built as a lodge for the Antrim estate gamekeeper in 1875. Prior to this (according to the valuation records of 1833 and 1859) the gamekeeper lived in ‘The Cottage’, a picturesque dwelling set on a rise roughly two miles to the south, within the Great Deer Park (on the site of the present 1920s ‘Lord Antrim’s Cottage’).

References- Primary sources
1 PRONI D.2977 Antrim Papers
2 PRONI OS/6/1/29/1 OS map, Co Antrim sh 29, 1832-33
3 PRONI VAL/1B/149 First valuation, Tickmacrevan parish, 1833 [This valuation and that of 1859 refer to the original gamekeeper’s cottage within the Great Deer Park.]
4 PRONI VAL/2B/1/41B Second valuation [notebook], village of Glenarm etc., 1859
5 PRONI OS/6/1/29/2 OS map, Co Antrim sh 29, 1857
6 PRONI OS/6/1/29/3 OS map, Co Antrim sh 29, 1903

Criteria for listing: architectural interest

A. Style
B. Proportion
C. Ornamentation
I. Quality and survival of Interior
J. Setting
K. Group value

Criteria for listing: historic interest

X. Local Interest

Evaluation

Picturesque, two storey gabled gamekeeper’s lodge of 1875 in basalt rubble with painted stone dressings and a small gabled porch.
It retains sufficient period character to merit listing at the B1 grade.

General comments

Previously recorded as HB06/02/077.