Antrim House

Town Parks, Antrim and Newtownabbey, Northern Ireland

The record

Designation: Record only (not listed)
Grade: Record Only
Type: Demolished
Date of listing: 10 December 1974
Date of delisting: 8 October 1997
Date of construction: 1820 - 1839
Address: Antrim House, 11 Riverside, Antrim, BT41 4BH
Townland: Town Parks
Council: Antrim and Newtownabbey
Country: Northern Ireland
Coordinates: 54.71312, -6.21716
Date of survey: 06 November 2004
HB reference: HB20/08/031

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The Department's description

Exterior description and setting

Demolished and replaced by a housing development.
Described in the first survey in 1970 as "Early 19th century. A five bay, three-storey house with rendered walls and hipped slated roof. Each gable rises to a chimney stack. The entrance is recessed in an elliptical arched opening, the panelled door is flanked by sidelights, the fanlight has looped glazing. All windows are D/H with full glazing bars. A two-storey lean-to extension rises on the south gable with a one-storey building projecting from this to the south."

Historical information

Precise date of building not recorded but it appears on the OS map of 1832. Called 'Riverside House' at the time of the first survey in 1970.

References – Primary Sources
1. OS Map 1832, Co Antrim 50.

Secondary Sources
1. UAHS, Antrim and Ballymena (Belfast, 1969), p 10.

Criteria for listing: architectural interest

Not listed

Criteria for listing: historic interest

Not listed

Evaluation

Demolished and replaced by a housing development.

Nearby in the register

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

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