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10, 11, and 12 Market Square

Town Parks, Antrim and Newtownabbey, Northern Ireland

Ordnance Survey six-inch map, 2nd edition (1888–1915) covering the location of 10, 11, and 12 Market Square, Town Parks, Antrim and Newtownabbey, with a pin at the register's coordinates
Ordnance Survey six-inch map, 2nd edition (1888–1915), covering this location. Courtesy of the National Library of Scotland. The pin is ours, placed from the register's coordinates.

The record

Designation
Record only (not listed)
Grade
Record Only
Type
Demolished
Date of construction
1860 - 1879
Address
10, 11, and 12 Market Square, Antrim, BT41 4AW
Townland
Town Parks
Council
Antrim and Newtownabbey
Country
Northern Ireland
Coordinates
54.71479, -6.22066
Date of survey
06 November 2004
HB reference
HB20/08/011

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David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries

3 historical maps cover this location, the earliest the 1854 map "Ireland." (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries).

Historical maps covering this location

  • 1854 · Ireland. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
  • 1857 · Ireland (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
  • 1869 · Ireland. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)

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The Department's description

Exterior description and setting

Demolished and replaced by a new building.
Described in the first survey in 1970 as "A three storey brick built terrace with string courses, drip mouldings and yellow brick dressings to window openings. There are half dormers lighting roof space accommodation. The roofs are slated. Shop fronts are contemporary. Upper windows D/H with plain sashes below and small paned sashes above are paired and occupy small projections from main façade with barge boarded gables at roof level."

Historical information

Precise date of buildings not recorded but they appear on the OS map of 1857 and may be dated stylistically to the High Victorian era. The buildings stood in the area of a monument, SMR no ANT182.

References – Primary Sources
1. OS Map 1857, Co Antrim 50.

Secondary Sources
1. UAHS, Antrim and Ballymena (Belfast, 1969), p 9.

Criteria for listing: architectural interest

Not listed

Criteria for listing: historic interest

Not listed

Evaluation

Demolished and replaced by a new building.

Nearby in the register

Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.

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