Historic Buildings Record · Northern Ireland
Ballycarry Lodge
Redhall, Mid and East Antrim, Northern Ireland
The record
- Designation
- Record only (not listed)
- Grade
- Record Only
- Type
- Gates/ Screens/ Lodges
- Date of construction
- 1840 - 1859
- Address
- Ballycarry Lodge, Red Hall, Ballycarry, Larne, Co Antrim
- Townland
- Redhall
- Council
- Mid and East Antrim
- Country
- Northern Ireland
- Coordinates
- 54.77556, -5.75203
- Date of survey
- 12 August 1998
- HB reference
- HB06/05/013 G
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
A single-storey, three-bay hipped-roofed lodge with a gabled projecting porch, in a derelict condition. Roofs of Bangor Blue slates in regular courses. Walls smooth rendered but missing in places to reveal basalt rubble walling and brick dressings. Central chimney, smooth rendered. Windows blocked up. Boundary wall and gatescreen of greystone.
Setting: the building stands immediately behind the screen wall at a secondary entrance to a large country house estate, within the built up area of a village, with its side wall close to and parallel to the main road.
Historical information
Built as a gate lodge to Red Hall. Appears on OS map of 1858; does not appear on 1831 map; precise year of building not known but may date from c 1850.
References - Primary Sources
1. OS Map 1858, Co Antrim 47.
Secondary Sources
2. J.A.K. Dean, The Gate Lodges of Ulster (UAHS, Belfast, 1994, p 25).
Criteria for listing: architectural interest
Not listed
Criteria for listing: historic interest
Not listed
Evaluation
An early to mid-19th century building of modest dimensions of some interest as a part of an important estate but in derelict condition and bereft of a number of original elements.
Nearby in the register
- Ballycarry Primary SchoolSchoolunder 1 mi
- Tower behindTowerunder 1 mi
- Houses in Main StreetDemolishedunder 1 mi
- Ballycarry Presbyterian ChurchChurchunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.