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Drumnagreagh Hotel

Drumnagreagh, Mid and East Antrim, Northern Ireland

Ordnance Survey six-inch map, 2nd edition (1888–1915) covering the location of Drumnagreagh Hotel, Mid and East Antrim, with a pin at the register's coordinates
Ordnance Survey six-inch map, 2nd edition (1888–1915), covering this location. Courtesy of the National Library of Scotland. The pin is ours, placed from the register's coordinates.

The record

Designation
Record only (not listed)
Grade
Record Only
Type
Hotel
Date of listing
23 October 1979
Date of delisting
9 June 1987
Date of construction
1880 - 1899
Address
Drumnagreagh Hotel, 408 Coast Road, Drumnagreagh, Larne, Co Antrim
Townland
Drumnagreagh
Council
Mid and East Antrim
Country
Northern Ireland
Coordinates
54.94314, -5.90359
Date of survey
15 June 1997
HB reference
HB06/03/012

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David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries

3 historical maps cover this location, the earliest the 1881 map "Ireland to Illustrate the Military Condition of the Country." (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries).

Historical maps covering this location

  • 1881 · Ireland to Illustrate the Military Condition of the Country. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
  • 1883 · Scotland. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
  • 1891 · Ireland 16 (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)

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The Department's description

Exterior description and setting

A two-storey house with roughcast walls and hipped slated roof with extensive modern additions. In the first survey in 1970 it was described as “A two-storey house with rough cast walls and hipped slated roof with modillions to eaves cornice. There is a platband at first floor level and plain dressings to corners. Plain sashed windows are set in square moulded architraves. Square projecting bays on three faces contain paired windows, in segmental arched opening at upper level facing sea. The entrance is contained in a square projecting porch, plain pilasters rise to entablature and blocking course. The door is modern. An extension has been added to the west.”

SETTING: It stands in a remote location in a very rural area, situated on an elevated site above the main Coast Road, with distant views to the sea.

Historical information

Built for George McFerran c. 1880; first appearance is on OS map of 1903. This building was formerly listed and then delisted.

References - Primary

1. OS Map 1903, Co Antrim 30.

Criteria for listing: architectural interest

Not listed

Criteria for listing: historic interest

Not listed

Evaluation

A late Victorian house modernised and extended to form an hotel and now no longer of special architectural or historic interest.

Nearby in the register

Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.

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