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22-26 Church Street

Town Parks, Antrim and Newtownabbey, Northern Ireland

Ordnance Survey six-inch map, 2nd edition (1888–1915) covering the location of 22-26 Church Street, 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
1840 - 1859
Address
22-26 Church Street, Antrim, BT41 3AW
Townland
Town Parks
Council
Antrim and Newtownabbey
Country
Northern Ireland
Coordinates
54.71374, -6.21636
Date of survey
06 November 2004
HB reference
HB20/08/018

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David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries

4 historical maps cover this location, the earliest the 1838 map "Ireland, north sheet." (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries).

Historical maps covering this location

  • 1838 · Ireland, north sheet. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
  • 1841 · Ireland. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
  • 1841 · Scotland (Southern part). XIII (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)

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The Department's description

Exterior description and setting

Demolished.
Described in the first survey in 1970 as "a terrace of three two-storey houses with modern roughcast walls and slated roofs, chimneys are of brick. D/H windows in wide sash boxes retain full glazing bars. Two of the sheeted doors are surmounted by narrow rectangular fanlights. The buildings have been restored."

Historical information

Precise date of buildings not recorded but they may be presumed to have been built around the mid-19th century.

References – Primary Sources
1. OS Map 1832, Co Antrim 50 (buildings indicated on site but date indeterminate).
2. 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.

Nearby in the register

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

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