Moneynick Post Office

The Department's description

Exterior description and setting

A single storey rubble stone cottage in a derelict condition, with traces of harling still remaining. Main entrance faces north-east. One window to the left of the porch and two to the right; porch smooth cement rendered; modern flush timber door. The roof has fallen in and the rear and sides of the building have been overgrown with vegetation.
It was described in the first survey in 1971 as "A thatched cottage with harled and whitened walls. Two original small paned unrecessed sash windows flank a small projecting porch with lean-to slated roof on the front elevation. Gables rise to parapets, one surmounted by a brick chimney. Another brick chimney is set asymmetrically on the roof. There is a small projection to the north and a corrugated iron annex at rear."

SETTING: The building stands in a very rural area, at an angle to the main road and set back from it within its own grassy plot which is thick with bushes and trees.

Historical information

Precise date of building not known but it appears on the OS map of 1829 and 1832, when it was situated in a bend of the road; road straightened by the time of the OS map of 1858. Listed in 1974; in ruins and considered to be beyond repair by 1994; delisted in 1995.

References – Primary Sources
1. OS Map 1829 and 1832, Co Antrim 49.
2. OS Map 1858, Co Antrim 49.

Secondary Sources
1. Belfast Telegraph, 23 October 1974 (illustrated in 'Stepping Back into the Past', article by D. Sloan).

Criteria for listing: architectural interest

Not listed

Criteria for listing: historic interest

Not listed

Evaluation

This is a formerly thatched cottage of a vernacular type which has now fallen into a completely derelict condition.