Historic Buildings Record · Northern Ireland
Abbotscroft,
Antrim and Newtownabbey, Northern Ireland
The record
- Designation
- Record only (not listed)
- Grade
- Record Only
- Type
- Demolished
- Address
- Abbotscroft,, Doagh Road,, Whiteabbey,, Co Antrim
- Council
- Antrim and Newtownabbey
- Country
- Northern Ireland
- Coordinates
- 54.66714, -5.90916
- Date of survey
- 15 October 2008
- HB reference
- HB21/07/017
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 1636 "Vltoniae Orientalis Pars" (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries).
The Department's description
Exterior description and setting
Detached three-bay two-storey rendered house, built c.1870, facing west and set in its own grounds at the end of a long avenue to the east of Shore Road. Now demolished and replaced by a two-storey military building, built c.1980. A former stone and brick outbuilding still remains to the north of the present building.
The First Survey card has no detailed information.
Historical information
N/A
Criteria for listing: architectural interest
Not listed
Criteria for listing: historic interest
Not listed
Evaluation
Building has been demolished.
General comments
This building is not worthy of a full Second Survey. A partial record has been taken as this building was surveyed in the First Survey but not listed at that time.
Nearby in the register
- Abbotscroft Garden VillageNo type recordedunder 1 mi
- Christ Church Congregational ChurchChurchunder 1 mi
- Abbots Cross Presbyterian ChurchChurchunder 1 mi
- Lismara GatelodgeDemolishedunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.