75-83 Church Street

The Department's description

Exterior description and setting

A terrace of five two-storey, two-bay houses, of random rubble basalt walls, with brick dressings to doorways and windows except where later smooth cement rendered; roofs of Bangor blue slates in regular courses; windows are rectangular fixed lights with top-hung vents in place of original timber sliding sashes, 2 over 2 with margins, with horns. Later shop front to no. 83; shop front to no. 75 has had fascia replaced by modern smooth cement render.

SETTING: The buildings stand facing the main street of the town.

Historical information

Precise date of buildings not recorded but they do not appear on the OS maps until after 1857.

References – Primary Sources
1. OS Map 1857, Co Antrim 50 (shows empty site).
2. OS Map 1962, 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 a mid-to-late 19th century terrace of houses which have lost a number of their original features and are of little architectural or historic interest.