Historic Buildings Record · Northern Ireland
Gate Lodge
Steeple, Antrim and Newtownabbey, Northern Ireland
The record
- Designation
- Record only (not listed)
- Grade
- Record Only
- Type
- Demolished
- Date of construction
- 1820 - 1839
- Address
- Gate Lodge, 14 Steeple Road, Antrim, Co Antrim, BT41 1BL
- Townland
- Steeple
- Council
- Antrim and Newtownabbey
- Country
- Northern Ireland
- Coordinates
- 54.72258, -6.20780
- Date of survey
- 02 October 1999
- HB reference
- HB20/09/001
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Shown on 4 historical map sheets, the earliest the 1811 "Ireland." (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries).
The Department's description
Exterior description and setting
This building has been demolished.
It was described in the first survey in 1971 as "A single storey lodge with widely overhanging slated roof. The walls are rendered and painted. Originally T-shaped there are now extensions on the N.W. corner. All openings are segmental-headed, windows are plain sashed, doors are modern. Gate piers are fret-decorated in upper parts. The corners of the main building are chamfered."
Historical information
Built for G.J. Clarke as a gate lodge to his house The Steeple which was built in 1827. Precise date of lodge not known but a lodge appears on the first OS map of 1832, and so it is probably contemporary with the main house. Demolished in the early 1980s to make way for the widening of the main road.
References – Primary Sources
1. OS Map 1832, Co Antrim 50.
Secondary Sources
1. UAHS, Antrim and Ballymena (Belfast, 1969), p 12.
2. J.A.K. Dean, The Gate Lodges of Ulster (UAHS, Belfast, 1994), p 28.
Criteria for listing: architectural interest
Not listed
Criteria for listing: historic interest
Not listed
Evaluation
Demolished to make way for road widening.
Nearby in the register
- The SteepleOfficeunder 1 mi
- Ardnaveigh CottageHouseunder 1 mi
- 2 Steeple Road, Antrim, Co Antrim BT41 1AFHouseunder 1 mi
- Former goods yard officeRailway Station Structuresunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.