Historic Buildings Record · Northern Ireland
Technical School
Town Parks, Antrim and Newtownabbey, Northern Ireland
The record
- Designation
- Record only (not listed)
- Grade
- Record Only
- Type
- Demolished
- Date of construction
- 1920 - 1939
- Address
- Technical School, 28 Station Road, Antrim
- Townland
- Town Parks
- Council
- Antrim and Newtownabbey
- Country
- Northern Ireland
- Coordinates
- 54.71570, -6.21565
- Date of survey
- 20 November 2004
- HB reference
- HB20/08/061
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Shown on 4 historical map sheets, the earliest the 1900 "Ireland" (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries).
The Department's description
Exterior description and setting
Demolished to make way for a road.
Described in the first survey in 1993 as "A two-storey building faced with artificial stone built on base courses of rustic brick in a plain modern style except for the shallow hipped roofs. Symmetrical facades. Small paned windows throughout. Rather drab."
Historical information
Designed in 1930 as a Technical School by W.D.R. Taggart and built in 1931. Demolished in 2003.
References – Primary Sources
1. OS Map 1962, Co Antrim 50.
2. Site plan for proposed technical school dated 1930 and signed by W.D.R. Taggart and specification dated 1931.
Secondary Sources
1. A. Smyth, The Story of Antrim (Antrim, 1984), p 90.
Criteria for listing: architectural interest
Not listed
Criteria for listing: historic interest
Not listed
Evaluation
Demolished to make way for a road.
Nearby in the register
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- Protestant HallShopunder 1 mi
- Former Methodist ChurchLibraryunder 1 mi
- Non-Subscribing ChurchRecreational Clubunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.