Historic Buildings Record · Northern Ireland
Castle Bar
Town Parks, Antrim and Newtownabbey, Northern Ireland
The record
- Designation
- Record only (not listed)
- Grade
- Record Only
- Type
- Demolished
- Date of construction
- 1840 - 1859
- Address
- Castle Bar, 1 Market Square, Antrim
- Townland
- Town Parks
- Council
- Antrim and Newtownabbey
- Country
- Northern Ireland
- Coordinates
- 54.71543, -6.22125
- Date of survey
- 06 November 2004
- HB reference
- HB20/08/007
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Shown on 4 historical map sheets, the earliest the 1838 "Ireland, north sheet." (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries).
The Department's description
Exterior description and setting
Demolished and replaced by landscaping scheme.
Described in the first survey in 1970 as “A two-storey corner house with pub front on Market Square. The walls are rendered with quoins. The roof is slated, two chimneys are rendered, one is of modern brickwork. Plain sashed windows on upper floor are set in square moulded architraves. The entrance in Castle Street is set in an elliptical arched opening the panelled door is flanked by three pane sidelights, the fanlight has radial glazing. No 2 Market Square, E. Craig Shoemaker, forms part of the building."
Historical information
Precise date of building not recorded but it may be presumed to have been built around the mid-19th century.
References – Primary Sources
1. OS Map 1832, Co Antrim 50 (shows a building on the site but date indeterminate).
2. OS Map 1857, Co Antrim 50.
Secondary Sources
1. UAHS, Antrim and Ballymena (Belfast, 1969), p 8.
Criteria for listing: architectural interest
Not listed
Criteria for listing: historic interest
Not listed
Evaluation
Demolished and replaced by a landscaping scheme.
Nearby in the register
- 2 & 4 Castle StreetDemolishedunder 1 mi
- Rampart and BastionWallingunder 1 mi
- Court Houseunder 1 mi
- Antrim Castle GatehouseGates/ Screens/ Lodgesunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.