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17 Riverside

Town Parks, Antrim and Newtownabbey, Northern Ireland

Ordnance Survey six-inch map, 2nd edition (1888–1915) covering the location of 17 Riverside, 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
House
Date of construction
1840 - 1859
Address
17 Riverside, Antrim, BT41 4BH
Townland
Town Parks
Council
Antrim and Newtownabbey
Country
Northern Ireland
Coordinates
54.71267, -6.21718
Date of survey
06 November 2004
HB reference
HB20/08/032

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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

A five-bay, two-storey gabled house with pebble-dashed walls, smooth rendered dressings; slated roof which contains five modern gabled dormers, tongued and grooved sheeted to the front. PVC rainwater goods. Gabled end elevations and rear elevation are pebble dashed.

SETTING: Tarmac drive to one side; concrete surfaced car park to front; new three-storey apartment block currently being erected behind to rear.

Historical information

Precise date of building not recorded but it appears on the OS map of 1857 and may be dated to the mid-19th century.

References – Primary Sources
1. OS Map 1857, 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

This is a mid-19th century building which has undergone a number of inappropriate alterations and is of little special architectural or historic interest.

Nearby in the register

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

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