Historic Buildings Record · Northern Ireland
Regal Cinema
Town Parks, Mid and East Antrim, Northern Ireland
The record
- Designation
- Record only (not listed)
- Grade
- Record Only
- Type
- Entertainment Building
- Date of construction
- 1920 - 1939
- Address
- Regal Cinema, 7 Curran Road, Larne, Co Antrim, BT40 1BS
- Townland
- Town Parks
- Council
- Mid and East Antrim
- Country
- Northern Ireland
- Coordinates
- 54.85142, -5.81274
- Date of survey
- 15 February 1998
- HB reference
- HB06/12/020
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Shown on 4 historical map sheets, the earliest the 1900 "Ireland" (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries).
The Department's description
Exterior description and setting
A 1930s cinema designed in a modern style, originally with faience cladding and such characteristic features as porthole windows, horizontal glazing bars to large rectangular windows and doors, but now has faience painted over, portholes covered over with square panels and original glazed doors replaced by plate glass in new frames.
Setting: the building stands within the built-up area of the town facing a main road and set back slightly from it, with two-storey gabled houses to each side.
Historical information
Designed in 1935 and opened in March 1937; architect, John McBride Neill of Belfast. Remodelled outside and subdivided inside in 1993.
References - Secondary
P. Larmour, The Big Feature (John McBride Neill 1905-1974), in Perspective (The Journal of the Royal Society of Ulster Architects), Vol 5 No 4, March/April 1997, pp 26-37.
Criteria for listing: architectural interest
Not listed
Criteria for listing: historic interest
Not listed
Evaluation
A 1930s cinema designed by the leading local specialist architect of his era, which has now been drastically changed inside and outside with the subsequent loss of original features.
Nearby in the register
- Methodist ChurchChurchunder 1 mi
- Laharna HotelDemolishedunder 1 mi
- Victoria Orange HallHallunder 1 mi
- Larne and Inver Parish Church HallHallunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.