Historic Buildings Record · Northern Ireland
Curran Lodge
None, Mid and East Antrim, Northern Ireland
The record
- Designation
- Record only (not listed)
- Grade
- Record Only
- Type
- House
- Date of construction
- 1840 - 1859
- Address
- Curran Lodge, Coastguard Road, Larne, Co Antrim
- Townland
- None
- Council
- Mid and East Antrim
- Country
- Northern Ireland
- Coordinates
- 54.84754, -5.80174
- Date of survey
- 20 December 1997
- HB reference
- HB06/08/009
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 two-storey gabled house with a symmetrical three-bay entrance front. It comprises a gabled front block with a gabled return to one side at the rear and a hipped return to the other side. Asbestos slate roofs, replacements; dry dashed walls of pebbles not original; painted rendered dressings; central entrance recessed in rectangular surround not in original form; windows largely modern replacements in PVC , fixed lights with top-hung vents, with small panes, for original timber sliding sashes with horns. The house stands on its own grounds facing north, with a lawn and a concrete area in front of it, enclosed by a partly rendered rubble stone boundary wall with an entrance gateway of square dry dashed piers hung with a single steel gate of modern design.
Historical information
Appears on the OS map of 1857.
References - Primary
1. OS map 1857, Co Antrim 40.
Criteria for listing: architectural interest
Not listed
Criteria for listing: historic interest
Not listed
Evaluation
An early Victorian house of no special architectural merit or recorded historical importance, which retains very little of its original exterior fabric.
Nearby in the register
- Olderfleet HotelHotelunder 1 mi
- 27-35 Olderfleet RoadHouse - Terraceunder 1 mi
- Clyde Valley MemorialMemorialunder 1 mi
- 59-65 Coastguard RoadHouse - Terraceunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.