Historic Buildings Record · Northern Ireland
Bellmount Lodge
Town Parks, Antrim and Newtownabbey, Northern Ireland
The record
- Designation
- Record only (not listed)
- Grade
- Record Only
- Type
- Demolished
- Date of construction
- 1740 - 1759
- Address
- Bellmount Lodge, Riverside, Antrim
- Townland
- Town Parks
- Council
- Antrim and Newtownabbey
- Country
- Northern Ireland
- Coordinates
- 54.71103, -6.21570
- Date of survey
- 06 November 2004
- HB reference
- HB20/08/038
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Shown on 4 historical map sheets, the earliest the 1697 "Scotia, Parte Meridionale" (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries).
The Department's description
Exterior description and setting
Demolished and the site remains vacant.
Described in the first survey in 1971 as "A small part octagonal building with rectangular extension to rear. The walls are harled and whitened on stone, the roofs are slated. The building is now boarded up and derelict."
Historical information
Precise date of building not recorded but a portion of it appears on the OS map of 1832. The date 1752 was inscribed on an adjacent gate pier. Bellmount house and its associated buildings was originally built for the Cunningham family.
References – Primary Sources
1. Datestone of 1752 on gate.
2. OS Map 1832, Co Antrim 50.
Secondary Sources
1. J.A.K. Dean, The Gate Lodges of Ulster: a gazetteer (Belfast, 1994), p 5.
Criteria for listing: architectural interest
Not listed
Criteria for listing: historic interest
Not listed
Evaluation
Demolished and the site remains vacant.
Nearby in the register
- The Cedars 51B Riverside Antrim BT41 4BLHouseunder 1 mi
- Edward VII post boxPost Boxunder 1 mi
- 41-49 RiversideHouseunder 1 mi
- 60-64 RiversideHouseunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.