Historic Buildings Record · Northern Ireland
First Trust Bank
Town Parks, Mid and East Antrim, Northern Ireland
The record
- Designation
- Record only (not listed)
- Grade
- Record Only
- Type
- Bank
- Date of construction
- 1920 - 1939
- Address
- First Trust Bank, Upper Main Street, Larne, Co Antrim
- Townland
- Town Parks
- Council
- Mid and East Antrim
- Country
- Northern Ireland
- Coordinates
- 54.85115, -5.82241
- Date of survey
- 15 February 1998
- HB reference
- HB06/12/023
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 1900 "Ireland" (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries).
The Department's description
Exterior description and setting
A three-storey building in rustic brick with a stone plinth, five windows wide, its three central windows projecting forward below a raking parapet. Designed in a form of Neo-Georgian style with rectangular timber sliding sash windows, vertically hung, 8 over 8, with horns, to the upper floors. Circular windows to the outer bays of the top floor. The building stands in part of the main street of the town directly onto the road and abutted each side by one and two-storey commercial premises.
Historical information
Built in 1938 as a branch of the Belfast Savings Bank; architect, Samuel Stevenson of Belfast.
References - Primary
1. Northern Whig, 25 February, 1938.
Criteria for listing: architectural interest
Not listed
Criteria for listing: historic interest
Not listed
Evaluation
An example of an inter-war building in a Neo-Georgian style but very conservatively handled and with some of its original features altered.
Nearby in the register
- Ulster BankBankunder 1 mi
- 22 Dunluce StreetShopunder 1 mi
- 1-3 Main StreetShopunder 1 mi
- Town HallTown hallunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.