Wilderness Lodge, on the corner of Ballymena Road and Randalstown Road, Antrim is a Grade Record Only listed building in the Antrim and Newtownabbey local planning authority area, Northern Ireland.
Wilderness Lodge, on the corner of Ballymena Road and Randalstown Road, Antrim
- WRENN ID
- dim-rotunda-raven
- Grade
- Record Only
- Local Planning Authority
- Antrim and Newtownabbey
- Constituency
- South Antrim MP: Robin Swann (UUP)
- Country
- Northern Ireland
- Address
- Wilderness Lodge, on the corner of Ballymena Road and Randalstown Road, Antrim, Town Parks
- Irish grid reference
- J 146 872
- Coordinates
- 54.71992, -6.22105
- Source
- NI Environment Agency listing
Description
Wilderness Lodge stood on the corner of Ballymena Road and Randalstown Road in Antrim. The building has been demolished and the site is now a roadway. It was described in a 1970 survey as an L-shaped house, two storeys high, with five bays on each facade. The walls were rendered, and the roof was slated. Most windows on the Ballymena Road elevation had full glazing bars, except for one plain sash window. Similarly, all but two windows on the Randalstown Road elevation had full glazing bars, while the remaining two had coloured glazing. Both entrances were topped by segmental-arched fanlights; the fanlight on the Ballymena Road side was radially glazed.
The precise date of construction is not recorded, but a portion of the building appears on the Ordnance Survey map of 1832, with the remainder depicted on the 1857 Ordnance Survey map, suggesting it was primarily built in the mid-19th century, likely between 1840 and 1859. Around 1920, it was used as a convent for the Sisters of St Vincent.
Local climate
Wilderness Lodge, on the corner of Ballymena Road and Randalstown Road, Antrim receives an average of 950 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 73% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 54% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 19 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 80% of listed buildings. Of these, 11 follow at least 1 mm of rain in the preceding 48 hours. Average temperatures at this location have risen by 0.2°C per decade since 1991.
Averages for 1991–2020; temperature trend 1991–2025. Figures describe the wider area (a grid cell of roughly 10 km), not the individual site. Contains modified Copernicus Climate Change Service information 2026.
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