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Knocknowan

Drains, Mid and East Antrim, Northern Ireland

Ordnance Survey six-inch map, 2nd edition (1888–1915) covering the location of Knocknowan, Drains, 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
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

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David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries

3 historical maps cover this location, the earliest the 1854 map "Ireland." (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries).

Historical maps covering this location

  • 1854 · Ireland. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
  • 1857 · Ireland (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
  • 1866 · Ireland. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)

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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

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

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