Former School House, off east side of Castle Street, Antrim is a Grade Record Only listed building in the Antrim and Newtownabbey local planning authority area, Northern Ireland.
Former School House, off east side of Castle Street, Antrim
- WRENN ID
- waning-vault-indigo
- Grade
- Record Only
- Local Planning Authority
- Antrim and Newtownabbey
- Constituency
- South Antrim MP: Robin Swann (UUP)
- Country
- Northern Ireland
- Address
- Former School House, off east side of Castle Street, Antrim, Town Parks
- Irish grid reference
- J 147 870
- Coordinates
- 54.71827, -6.21942
- Source
- NI Environment Agency listing
Description
The former School House, built between 1800 and 1819, stood off the east side of Castle Street, Antrim. Originally constructed in 1815 at the expense of Viscount Massereene, it served as a school. Castle Street was formerly known as Bow Lane, as shown on Ordnance Survey maps from 1832 and 1857. The building was located behind the property that was formerly known as No 98 Castle Street, now replaced by a new property at No 4 Castle Street (distinct from the earlier building recorded as HB20/08/045).
The building, as described in a 1971 survey, was a two-storey house with harled walls and a hipped slated roof, four bays wide. It had unrecessed double-hung windows with sashes divided vertically into two panes. A timber porch sheltered the entrance.
The school is mentioned in the Ordnance Survey Memoirs of Ireland (1832-9) and is referenced by A. Smyth in The Story of Antrim (1984), which mistakenly dates its establishment to 1812 and identifies it as an Erasmus School.
The building was demolished and the site remains vacant. It is not included in the list of buildings of group value.
Local climate
Former School House, off east side of Castle Street, 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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