Historic Buildings Record · Northern Ireland
Firgrove
Moylinny, Antrim and Newtownabbey, Northern Ireland
The record
- Designation
- Record only (not listed)
- Grade
- Record Only
- Type
- Demolished
- Date of listing
- 10 December 1974
- Date of delisting
- 21 April 1994
- Date of construction
- 1780 - 1799
- Address
- Firgrove, Nursery Park, Muckamore, Antrim, BT41 1QR
- Townland
- Moylinny
- Council
- Antrim and Newtownabbey
- Country
- Northern Ireland
- Coordinates
- 54.70505, -6.19998
- Date of survey
- 06 November 2004
- HB reference
- HB20/08/053
Slide toward Today to fade the historical sheet and see the modern map underneath.
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Shown on 4 historical map sheets, the earliest the 1779 "La Scozia meridionale" (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries).
The Department's description
Exterior description and setting
Demolished and replaced by a 'business park'.
Described in the first survey in 1972 as "A late 18th century two-storey, eight bay rendered house with attics. There are three dormers on south side. Windows are 12-pane arched. A tall segmental-faced single storey front to east has glazed doors flanked by tall plain sashed windows. Lozenge-paned windows to outbuildings. Noteworthy plasterwork in interior."
Historical information
Precise date of building not recorded but it appears on the OS map of 1832. Described in the first survey of 1972 as "late 18th century; enlarged c 1850". The building stood in the area of a monument, SMR no ANT 140.
References – Primary Sources
1. OS Map 1832, Co Antrim 50.
Secondary Sources
1. UAHS, Antrim and Ballymena (Belfast, 1969), p 13.
Criteria for listing: architectural interest
Not listed
Criteria for listing: historic interest
Not listed
Evaluation
Demolished and replaced by a 'business park'.
Nearby in the register
- Moylinny MillHouseunder 1 mi
- Lodge at Fir GroveDemolishedunder 1 mi
- Gateway and walling of Quaker GraveyardWallingunder 1 mi
- Water-wheel at MoylinnyMillunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.