Arlyn, Craigstown Road, Ballygrooby, Randalstown, Antrim, Co Antrim is a Grade Record Only listed building in the Antrim and Newtownabbey local planning authority area, Northern Ireland. First listed on 20 September 1974.
Arlyn, Craigstown Road, Ballygrooby, Randalstown, Antrim, Co Antrim
- WRENN ID
- cold-vestry-violet
- Grade
- Record Only
- Local Planning Authority
- Antrim and Newtownabbey
- Constituency
- South Antrim MP: Robin Swann (UUP)
- Country
- Northern Ireland
- Date first listed
- 20 September 1974
- Irish grid reference
- J 091 907
- Coordinates
- 54.7532, -6.30534
- Source
- NI Environment Agency listing
Description
Arlyn is a former thatched cottage located on Craigstown Road, Ballygrooby, near Randalstown, County Antrim. It is believed to have been constructed between 1820 and 1839 and appears on the Ordnance Survey map of 1829. Originally described in a 1971 survey as a thatched cottage with harled and colour-washed walls, sash windows with cross astragals, a panelled entrance door flanked by four-pane sidelights, and a single brick chimney stack, the cottage is now a ruin in a collapsed state. There is no roof, and only portions of the rubble stone walls remain, heavily overgrown and surrounded by vegetation, making access difficult. Whitened rubble stone outbuildings with modern corrugated iron roofs are present but are not of special interest. The cottage was condemned as unfit for habitation in 1975 and subsequently abandoned, leading to its current derelict condition. It stands in a rural area facing the main road. The building was originally a thatched house and was privately owned; it was delisted on 19 December 1985.
Local climate
Arlyn, Craigstown Road, Ballygrooby, Randalstown, Antrim, Co Antrim sits in a wetter-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 990 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 80% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 53% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 21 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 78% of listed buildings. Of these, 12 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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