Laharna Hotel

The Department's description

Exterior description and setting

Building now demolished 18.06.2001

Second Survey report 15.02.1998 recorded:
A large five-storey building consisting of a central block, nine windows wide, set back behind two five-storey wings placed at an angle to each side. Two lower storeys faced with rough faced sandstone, in regular courses with larger ashlar sandstone dressings; upper storeys rendered. Windows timber sliding sash, vertically hung, with horns, 1 over 1, except to top floor where 6 over 6 originally, and ground floor where combined with six-pane transom lights. Original recess in front of central block later filled by flat-roofed single-storey addition in white painted concrete in Art Deco style. The building stands within the built-up area of the town, directly facing a main road, abutted to one side by a three-storey flat-roofed building and to the other side by an insignificant single-storey gabled red brick shed.

Historical information

Established c 1890s by A.W. Holden; burnt 1901; reconstructed 1903 to designs of B.D. Wise, engineer to the Belfast and Northern Counties Railway, including addition of a ballroom and flat ‘promenade roof’; in 1930s given a fifth storey with pitched roof and a reinforced concrete porch added to the front.

Building demolished 2001.

References - Secondary

1. J.R.L. Currie, The Northern Counties Railway, 2 vols (Newton Abbot, 1973 and 1974).
2. C. Dallat, The Road to the Glens (Friar’s Bush Press, Belfast, 1989), p 1 [illustration of the building in its original state].

Criteria for listing: architectural interest

Not listed

Criteria for listing: historic interest

Not listed

Evaluation

Building demolished.