28-32 Riverside

The Department's description

Exterior description and setting

Nos. 30 and 32 are a pair of red brick semi-detached, two-storey, two-bay houses with yellow brick details, with slated roofs, rebuilt red brick chimney; rectangular timber sliding sash windows, 1 over 1 and 2 over 1, with horns; doors are rectangular timber panelled and diagonally tongued and grooved sheeted. West gable of no. 32 is roughcast rendered. No. 28 has been demolished and replaced by three new houses.

SETTING: The buildings stand as part of a terrace facing the main street with modern pavings in front of nos. 28a, b and c.

Historical information

Nos. 30 and 32 built in 1904; no. 28 appears on OS map of 1832 but precise date not recorded.

References – Primary Sources
1. OS Map 1832, Co Antrim 50 (shows large building on site of large block).
2. OS Map 1857, Co Antrim 50.
3. OS Map 1962, Co Antrim 50 (shows houses attached to large block).
4. Datestone of 1904.

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 pair of early 20th century semi-detached houses of no special architectural or historical interest.