5-9 Castle Street

Town Parks, Antrim and Newtownabbey, Northern Ireland

The record

Designation: Record only (not listed)
Grade: Record Only
Type: Demolished
Date of listing: 28 April 1981
Date of delisting: 25 June 1990
Date of construction: 1840 - 1859
Address: 5-9 Castle Street, Antrim
Townland: Town Parks
Council: Antrim and Newtownabbey
Country: Northern Ireland
Coordinates: 54.71605, -6.22122
Date of survey: 06 November 2004
HB reference: HB20/08/047

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Exterior description and setting

Demolished to make way for a car park.
Described in the first survey in 1970 as "A two-storey nine bay terrace with rendered walls, quoins at one extremity and slated roofs. Chimneys are rendered. All windows are D/H with full glazing bars. Chimneys are of red brick. The entrances of nos 5 and 7 are panelled and surmounted by plain rectangular fanlights. No 9 is shopped, double doors are flanked by twin four-pane windows with elliptical arched heads to twin lights."

Historical information

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

References – Primary Sources
1. OS Map 1857, 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.

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