Historic Buildings Record · Northern Ireland
The Green Mill
Muckamore, Antrim and Newtownabbey, Northern Ireland
The record
- Designation
- Record only (not listed)
- Grade
- Record Only
- Type
- Demolished
- Date of construction
- 1880 - 1899
- Address
- The Green Mill, Oldstone Road, Muckamore, Antrim, Co Antrim
- Townland
- Muckamore
- Council
- Antrim and Newtownabbey
- Country
- Northern Ireland
- Coordinates
- 54.70376, -6.19166
- Date of survey
- 22 April 2000
- HB reference
- HB20/13/006
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 1869 "Ireland." (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries).
The Department's description
Exterior description and setting
Demolished and replaced by new houses.
Described in the first survey in 1972 as "A three-storey, eight bay brick building with granite quoins. Dressings to segmental and semi-circular windows and eaves cornice are of yellow brick. Hipped slated roof. Sashed windows with vertical division."
Historical information
Precise date of building not known but it appears on the OS map of 1902. Prior to that a number of buildings marked 'Beetling Mills' appeared on the site on the OS map of 1832. The Green Mill was described as "a good solidly built Victorian industrial building" in 1969, when owned by Thorer U.K. Ltd; demolished and site cleared in the 1990s.
Part of the grounds lie within the area of an historic monument, no. ANT50:76.
References – Primary Sources
1. OS Map 1832, Co Antrim 50 (shows various buildings on the site, marked as 'Beetling Mills').
2. OS Map 1902, Co Antrim 50.
Secondary Sources
1. UAHS, Antrim and Ballymena (Belfast, 1969), p 13.
2. IHR 7193.
Criteria for listing: architectural interest
Not listed
Criteria for listing: historic interest
Not listed
Evaluation
Demolished and replaced by a housing development.
Nearby in the register
- Vault at Muckamore HouseMausoleumunder 1 mi
- Muckamore BridgeBridgeunder 1 mi
- GlenhurstHouseunder 1 mi
- Walled Garden, corner of Oldstone Road and Seven Mile StraightWallingunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.