Historic Buildings Record · Northern Ireland
5 Mark Street
Glenarm Town Parks, Mid and East Antrim, Northern Ireland
The record
- Designation
- Record only (not listed)
- Grade
- Record Only
- Type
- House
- Date of listing
- 23 October 1979
- Date of delisting
- 31 March 2005
- Date of construction
- 1840 - 1859
- Address
- 5 Mark Street, Glenarm, Ballymena, Co Antrim, BT44 0AN
- Townland
- Glenarm Town Parks
- Council
- Mid and East Antrim
- Country
- Northern Ireland
- Coordinates
- 54.96541, -5.95195
- Date of survey
- 05 July 2001
- HB reference
- HB06/02/069 A
Slide toward Today to fade the historical sheet and see the modern map underneath.
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Shown on 4 historical map sheets, the earliest the 1831 "Scotland southern." (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries).
The Department's description
Exterior description and setting
Plain two storey terrace house of 1859, much modernised in the 1980s-90s and now with dry dash, PVC windows and doors and large flat roofed rear extension. The property is set on the E side of Mark Street.
The front elevation faces roughly W and is asymmetrical. To the right side of the front elevation is a PVC panelled door with a plain fanlight over. To the left is a top hung PVC window. To first floor are two further top hung similar windows.
To the rear E elevation there is a full width flat roofed return with modern PVC doors and windows. To the rear of the main roof is a Velux window.
External walls are finished with salt and pepper dry dash and rest on a smooth cement, slightly recessed plinth; natural slate covering to the roof. PVC rw goods front and rear. To the N side of the ridge is a plain rendered chimney stack.
Historical information
Mark Street was laid out in the 1850s and named after Lord Mark (Kerr) McDonnell, the 10th Earl of Antrim. This house (No.5) does not appear to be shown on the OS map of 1858, but is undoubtedly the dwelling of the same dimensions (minus recent extension) recorded in the 1859 valuation- thus dating it to the latter year
References- Primary sources
1 PRONI D.2977 Antrim Papers
2 PRONI VAL/2D/1/11 Valuation town plan of Glenarm, 1859 [with later annotations]
3 PRONI VAL/2B/1/41B Second valuation [notebook], village of Glenarm,
4 PRONI OS/8/103/1 OS town plan of Glenarm, 1903
5 PRONI VAL/12E/31/1 Valuation town plan of Glenarm, 1907-[1935]
6 PRONI VAL/3G/20/1 Valuation town plan of Glenarm. 1936-57
Secondary sources
1 Felix McKillop, ‘Glenarm- A local history’ (Glenarm 1987)
Criteria for listing: architectural interest
Not listed
Criteria for listing: historic interest
Not listed
Evaluation
Plain two storey terrace house of 1859, much modernised in the 1980s-90s and now with dry dash, PVC windows and doors and large flat roofed rear extension.Does not meet criteria for listing and not of special architectural or historic interest.
Nearby in the register
- 7 Mark StreetHouseunder 1 mi
- 9 Mark StreetHouseunder 1 mi
- 26-28 The VennelHouseunder 1 mi
- 21-23 Vennel Street (The Vennel)Houseunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.