Historic Buildings Record · Northern Ireland
Arlyn
Ballygrooby, Antrim and Newtownabbey, Northern Ireland
The record
- Designation
- Record only (not listed)
- Grade
- Record Only
- Type
- House
- Date of listing
- 20 September 1974
- Date of delisting
- 19 December 1985
- Date of construction
- 1820 - 1839
- Address
- Arlyn, Craigstown Road, Ballygrooby, Randalstown, Antrim, Co Antrim
- Townland
- Ballygrooby
- Council
- Antrim and Newtownabbey
- Country
- Northern Ireland
- Coordinates
- 54.75320, -6.30534
- Date of survey
- 04 November 2000
- HB reference
- HB20/04/032
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 1811 "Ireland." (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries).
The Department's description
Exterior description and setting
A ruinous former cottage, now in a collapsed state with no roof, rubble stone walls only partly standing, and so overgrown with, and surrounded by, vegetation that it is virtually inaccessible. Whitened rubble stone outbuildings with modern corrugated iron roofs still remain but are of no special interest. It stands in a rural area and faces the main road.
It was described in the first survey in 1971 as "A thatched cottage with harled and colour-washed walls. Sashed windows have cross astragals. The panelled entrance door is flanked by four-pane sidelights. There is one brick chimney stack on roof."
Historical information
Precise date of building not known, but it appears on the OS map of 1829. Condemned as unfit for habitation in 1975; subsequently abandoned and fell into a completely ruinous state.
References – Primary Sources
1. OS Map 1829, Co Antrim 43.
Criteria for listing: architectural interest
Not listed
Criteria for listing: historic interest
Not listed
Evaluation
This is a former thatched cottage, of no special historic interest, which has fallen into a state of complete dereliction.
Nearby in the register
- St McNissi's old church (RC)Storeunder 1 mi
- Former Railway StationHouseunder 1 mi
- Former Parochial HouseOfficeunder 1 mi
- 18-20 Shane's StreetHouse - Terraceunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.