Historic Buildings Record · Northern Ireland
2 Fountain Street
Town Parks, Antrim and Newtownabbey, Northern Ireland
The record
- Designation
- Record only (not listed)
- Grade
- Record Only
- Type
- Shop
- Date of construction
- 1840 - 1859
- Address
- 2 Fountain Street, Antrim, BT41 4BB
- Townland
- Town Parks
- Council
- Antrim and Newtownabbey
- Country
- Northern Ireland
- Coordinates
- 54.71342, -6.21327
- Date of survey
- 06 November 2004
- HB reference
- HB20/08/027
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 1838 "Ireland, north sheet." (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries).
The Department's description
Exterior description and setting
A two-storey building, three windows wide to the first floor, with a modern shop front to the ground floor. Main entrance faces north.
North elevation has snecked blackstone rubble to the gabled first floor; three rectangular timber 2-light casement windows set in white painted block dressings with chamfered reveals; apex of gable contains a plaque inscribed ‘Antrim National School 1841’.
Ground floor has shop front of modern style with roller metal shutters to window and door.
West elevation: roof of synthetic slates with modern flush rooflight; wall of roughcast render; four windows of modern plate glass.
Rear elevation: rendered gable, with dashed finish; flat roofed later lower extension of similar walling to side and rear of main block.
SETTING: The building stands facing the main street of the town, with a pedestrian lane along its side elevation.
Historical information
Built in 1841 as a National School.
References – Primary Sources
1. Datestone of 1841 on building.
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
This is an early Victorian building which has lost its original character and some of its original features.
Nearby in the register
- 75-83 Church StreetHouse - Terraceunder 1 mi
- 88 Church StreetDemolishedunder 1 mi
- 69 Church StreetShopunder 1 mi
- 26-30 Fountain StreetHouseunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.