41-49 Riverside

The Department's description

Exterior description and setting

A terrace of two-storey houses with slated roofs and rendered walls; red brick chimneys, including some rebuilt in modern brick. No. 41 retains roughly rendered and white painted finish and rectangular timber sliding sash windows, 1 over 1, with horns; modern flush timber door. Nos. 43 and 45 are combined in one dwelling: incorporates a modern garage doorway; main entrance is a modern timber panelled door with sidelights; windows are modern pvc fixed lights and top-hung vents. No. 47 has roughcast walls with rectangular timber sliding sash windows, 6 over 3, with horns; timber panelled door. No. 49 has roughcast walls and modern timber fixed light and side-hung casements; ledged timber door. Cast iron rainwater goods throughout. Rear elevations of similar character to front. No. 49 has a modern two-storey rear return with pvc rainwater goods and wet dashed rendering.

SETTING: The buildings stand facing directly onto the street.

Historical information

Precise date of buildings not recorded; buildings are shown on the site on the OS map of 1832 but their extent is indeterminate; they may be supposed to date probably from the early 19th century but have undergone alterations since then.

References – Primary Sources
1. OS Map 1832, Co Antrim 50 (buildings are shown on the site but date indeterminate).
2. 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 terrace of two-storey houses dating originally from probably the early 19th century but which have undergone a number of alterations since then and now stand as a group of no special architectural or historic interest.