Shane's Castle Outbuildings, Shane's Castle Park, Antrim, Co Antrim is a Grade B2 listed building in the Antrim and Newtownabbey local planning authority area, Northern Ireland. First listed on 23 March 2005.
Shane's Castle Outbuildings, Shane's Castle Park, Antrim, Co Antrim
- WRENN ID
- half-mullion-primrose
- Grade
- B2
- Local Planning Authority
- Antrim and Newtownabbey
- Constituency
- South Antrim MP: Robin Swann (UUP)
- Country
- Northern Ireland
- Date first listed
- 23 March 2005
- Irish grid reference
- J 110 880
- Coordinates
- 54.72839, -6.27766
- Source
- NI Environment Agency listing
Description
These are a range of early 19th-century outbuildings forming part of the development of Shane's Castle estate and contributing to the group value of the other listed buildings on the estate.
The outbuildings are constructed from basalt rubble with slated roofs, comprising an L-shaped range and several detached blocks. The L-shaped range forms part of two large courtyards: a long two-storey block along the south side with a single-storey return to the north. The two-storey block has snecked basalt rubble walls with rectangular openings, some featuring later red brick or concrete brick dressings, metal framed windows and timber louvres. A taller bay at the east end has large vehicular openings with concrete lintels. The single-storey return block includes an open-fronted shelter and a small enclosed block with a sheeted timber door flanked by small, four-pane timber windows. The detached blocks are plain basalt rubble structures with slated roofs, featuring sheeted doors and timber or metal windows of little architectural distinction. To the west stands a large, two-storey barn of squared rubble, featuring a large brick elliptically arched opening in the south gable, although the west elevation has later concrete block infill walling.
The buildings were built by the O'Neill family for Shane's Castle estate. While the exact date of construction is unknown, these buildings first appear on the Ordnance Survey map of 1858. Earlier Ordnance Survey Memoirs from 1838 mention "ranges of cowhouses, cart sheds etc" within the farmyard, suggesting some elements may date back to that time. The buildings stand within the demesne of Shane's Castle, overlooking hard-surfaced yards and driveways, and are part of a larger complex which includes other listed buildings.
Local climate
Shane's Castle Outbuildings, Shane's Castle Park, Antrim, Co 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 57% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 16 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 84% of listed buildings. Of these, 9 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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