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1 & 3 Castle Street

Town Parks, Antrim and Newtownabbey, Northern Ireland

Ordnance Survey six-inch map, 2nd edition (1888–1915) covering the location of 1 & 3 Castle Street, 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
Demolished
Date of construction
1880 - 1899
Address
1 & 3 Castle Street, Antrim
Townland
Town Parks
Council
Antrim and Newtownabbey
Country
Northern Ireland
Coordinates
54.71588, -6.22123
Date of survey
06 November 2004
HB reference
HB20/08/046

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David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries

4 historical maps cover this location, the earliest the 1869 map "Ireland." (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries).

Historical maps covering this location

  • 1869 · Ireland. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
  • 1881 · Ireland to Illustrate the Military Condition of the Country. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
  • 1883 · Scotland. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
  • 1891 · Ireland 16 (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)

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The Department's description

Exterior description and setting

Demolished to make way for a car park.
Described in the first survey in 1970 as "A pair of cottages built of coursed rubble blackstone with blue brick block dressings to plain sashed windows and doors. Upper windows are set in half dormers; all roofs are slated with cresting on ridges. Chimneys are of red brick. The entrances are contained in projecting porches; slated doors are surmounted by horizontal lattice paned fanlights."

Historical information

Precise date of buildings not recorded but stylistically they may be dated to the late Victorian period.

References – Primary Sources
1. OS Map 1962, Co Antrim 50.

Secondary Sources
1. UAHS, Antrim and Ballymena (Belfast, 1969), p 10.
2. J. Hanna, Old Antrim (Catrine, Ayrshire, 2002), p 17 (the south gable of the block appears in an old photograph of Castle Street).

Criteria for listing: architectural interest

Not listed

Criteria for listing: historic interest

Not listed

Evaluation

Demolished to make way for a car park.

Nearby in the register

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

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