Historic Buildings Record · Northern Ireland
Coombe House
Town Parks, Mid and East Antrim, Northern Ireland
The record
- Designation
- Record only (not listed)
- Grade
- Record Only
- Type
- House
- Date of construction
- 1960 - 1979
- Address
- Coombe House, 160 The Roddens, Larne, Co Antrim, BT40 1PN
- Townland
- Town Parks
- Council
- Mid and East Antrim
- Country
- Northern Ireland
- Coordinates
- 54.85688, -5.83129
- Date of survey
- 24 April 1998
- HB reference
- HB06/11/013
Slide toward Today to fade the historical sheet and see the modern map underneath.
Shown on the 1941 "OS GSGS 3906 Scotland 1:25,000 (1940-1943)" (National Library of Scotland).
The Department's description
Exterior description and setting
A flat roofed house in a modern style laid out on a split level; constructed of concrete bricks with concrete cills, with metal pivoting windows above large timber fixed lights, tongued and grooved vertical weather boarding, plain plywood panels, asphalt roof, on a cantilevered concrete slab to the first floor.
Setting: the house stands on an elevated site set back from the main road with distant views over the town. It is flanked on each side by two houses of similar date and style but which have been altered inappropriately or display impurities of style.
Historical information
Designed by the Larne architect Gerald Smith for himself c. 1968.
References - Primary
1. Information from owners.
Criteria for listing: architectural interest
Not listed
Criteria for listing: historic interest
Not listed
Evaluation
International Style house of some local interest.
Nearby in the register
- Lisnamoyle,Houseunder 1 mi
- 3 The Whins,Houseunder 1 mi
- 4 The Whins,Houseunder 1 mi
- CrannieHouseunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.