Historic Buildings Record · Northern Ireland
Former Employment Exchange
Ards and North Down, Northern Ireland
The record
- Designation
- Record only (not listed)
- Grade
- Record Only
- Type
- No type recorded
- Address
- Former Employment Exchange, Dufferin Avenue, Bangor, Co Down
- Council
- Ards and North Down
- Country
- Northern Ireland
- Coordinates
- 54.65929, -5.67135
- Date of survey
- 04 February 2011
- HB reference
- HB23/07/018
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
The Employment Exchange has been demolished. A car-park is now in its place.
The First Survey card records:
‘A small single storey building in rustic brick with a red tiled hipped roof and sash windows, but showing evidence of later additions which spoil its appearance.
Designed by the architects of the N.I. Ministry of Finance in 1936 (Min. of Fin. files)'
Criteria for listing: architectural interest
Not listed
Criteria for listing: historic interest
Not listed
Evaluation
The Employment Exchange has been demolished. A car-park is now in its place.
General comments
Partial Survey Only
Nearby in the register
- Bangor Telephone ExchangeTelephone Exchangeunder 1 mi
- Bangor Post OfficePost Officeunder 1 mi
- First Presbyterian ChurchChurchunder 1 mi
- Bank of IrelandBankunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.