Historic Buildings Record · Northern Ireland
Knocknowan
Drains, Mid and East Antrim, Northern Ireland
The record
- Designation
- Record only (not listed)
- Grade
- Record Only
- Type
- House
- Date of construction
- 1860 - 1879
- Address
- Knocknowan, Old Glenarm Road, Drains, Carncastle, Larne, Co Antrim
- Townland
- Drains
- Council
- Mid and East Antrim
- Country
- Northern Ireland
- Coordinates
- 54.87598, -5.84429
- Date of survey
- 15 June 1997
- HB reference
- HB06/03/020
Slide toward Today to fade the historical sheet and see the modern map underneath.
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Shown on 3 historical map sheets, the earliest the 1854 "Ireland." (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries).
The Department's description
Exterior description and setting
A two-storey three-bay house with white painted rendered walls, which in 1970 had a slated roof, all windows vertically hung timber sashes with full glazing bars, and its entrance recessed in a semi-circular headed opening with a panelled door surmounted by a fanlight with radial glazing bars. It now has modern windows in enlarged openings and a broad projecting modern porch over the entrance.
SETTING: It stands in a very rural location in open farmland, set well back from the main road, with plain rebuilt outbuildings behind it.
Historical information
A small house appears on the first OS map but this is an enlargement of it, which appears on the 1903 map
References - Primary
1. OS Map 1833, Co Antrim 35.
2. OS Map 1903, Co Antrim 35.
Criteria for listing: architectural interest
Not listed
Criteria for listing: historic interest
Not listed
Evaluation
A 19th century house which has lost its original character through modernisation.
Nearby in the register
- Lodge at HillmountGates/ Screens/ Lodgesunder 1 mi
- HillmountHouseunder 1 mi
- Threshing Mill at Port Pier FarmOutbuildingsunder 1 mi
- Droagh CottageHouseunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.