Historic Buildings Record · Northern Ireland
26-30 Fountain Street
Town Parks, Antrim and Newtownabbey, Northern Ireland
The record
- Designation
- Record only (not listed)
- Grade
- Record Only
- Type
- House
- Date of construction
- 1840 - 1859
- Address
- 26-30 Fountain Street, Antrim, BT41 4BB
- Townland
- Town Parks
- Council
- Antrim and Newtownabbey
- Country
- Northern Ireland
- Coordinates
- 54.71341, -6.21218
- Date of survey
- 06 November 2004
- HB reference
- HB20/08/029
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, 9-bay terrace with slated roofs; rendered walls, with quoins to extremities; a former central coachway entrance with elliptical arch has been blocked up and contains a new window. Windows to nos. 26 and 28 retain original timber sashes, 2 over 2, with horns, but the remainder have modern fixed lights with top-hung vents. No. 30 has the ground floor shopped containing modern timber framed windows. Three chimneys remain, in red brick; one chimney removed.
SETTING: The buildings stand facing the main street of the town.
Historical information
Precise date of buildings not recorded but they appear on the OS map of 1857.
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
This is a terrace of probably mid-19th century date which has had its original character changed and is of little architectural or historic interest.
Nearby in the register
- 2 Fountain StreetShopunder 1 mi
- 75-83 Church StreetHouse - Terraceunder 1 mi
- 88 Church StreetDemolishedunder 1 mi
- 69 Church StreetShopunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.