Historic Buildings Record · Northern Ireland
Former School House,
Town Parks, Antrim and Newtownabbey, Northern Ireland
The record
- Designation
- Record only (not listed)
- Grade
- Record Only
- Type
- Demolished
- Date of construction
- 1800 - 1819
- Address
- Former School House,, off east side of Castle Street, Antrim
- Townland
- Town Parks
- Council
- Antrim and Newtownabbey
- Country
- Northern Ireland
- Coordinates
- 54.71827, -6.21942
- Date of survey
- 06 November 2004
- HB reference
- HB20/08/049
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4 historical maps cover this location, the earliest the 1790 map "Composite: Ireland." (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries).
Historical maps covering this location
- 1790 · Composite: Ireland. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
- 1808 · Ireland. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
- 1811 · Ireland. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
- 1817 · Ireland. (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 two-storey house with harled walls and hipped slated roof, four bays wide. Unrecessed D/H windows have sashes divided vertically into two panes. A timber porch protects the entrance. Not of high interest."
Historical information
Built in 1815 as a school at the expense of Viscount Massereene. Castle Street was previously known as Bow Lane, and appears as such on the OS maps of 1832 and 1857. The location was behind the property formerly known as No 98 Castle Street but now replaced by a new property which is known as No 4 Castle Street (but is not to be confused with the former 4 Castle Street which is recorded at HB20/08/045).
References – Primary Sources
1. OS Map 1832, Co Antrim 50 (marked as a school house).
2. Ordnance Survey Memoirs of Ireland, Vol 29: Parishes of County Antrim XI, 1832-3, 1835-9 (Belfast, 1995), p 9 (gives date as 1815).
Secondary Sources
1. A. Smyth, The Story of Antrim (Antrim, 1984), p 62 (refers to the school as an Erasmus School but gives date 1812).
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
- St Comgall's Church, Castle Street, AntrimChurchunder 1 mi
- 15 and 17 Oriel RoadHouseunder 1 mi
- 37 Castle StreetDemolishedunder 1 mi
- Wilderness Lodge,Demolishedunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.