House (former school house), 7 Whitepark Road, Glebe TD, Ballycastle, County Antrim, BT54 6HD is a listed building in the Causeway Coast and Glens local planning authority area, Northern Ireland.
House (former school house), 7 Whitepark Road, Glebe TD, Ballycastle, County Antrim, BT54 6HD
- WRENN ID
- hallowed-tower-briar
- Grade
- Local Planning Authority
- Causeway Coast and Glens
- Constituency
- North Antrim MP: Jim Allister (TUV)
- Country
- Northern Ireland
- Irish grid reference
- D 101 401
- Coordinates
- 55.19624, -6.27039
- Source
- NI Environment Agency listing
Description
This is a one and a half-storey former schoolhouse built around 1840, set on the east side of Whitepark Road, just over half a mile southwest of Ballycastle. The building backs onto Ramoan old graveyard, with graves positioned close to the rear elevation. It was originally constructed in connection with the nearby Ramoan Church of Ireland parish church, first appearing on the Ordnance Survey map of 1856 marked as "School Ho." and recorded in the 1859 valuation. The building ceased to be used as a school in the mid-twentieth century, probably following post-war education reforms, and was subsequently converted to a dwelling house.
The building is roughly rectangular in plan, with a steeply pitched gabled roof and decorative bargeboards. The entire façade is finished in painted roughcast. The main roof has a pronounced overhang with exposed rafter ends to the west. The roof is covered in artificial slate and contains Velux windows to each side. A small brick chimneystack sits on the south gable.
The asymmetrical north-facing front elevation consists of the uneven gable of the original building with a flat-roofed section to the left (east). Roughly at the centre of the gable is a segmental-headed doorway with modern glazed timber door and segmental fanlight with spoke tracery. Windows flank the doorway, with further examples to the left within the flat-roofed section. The upper level has two windows; a larger single window that formerly occupied this space is indicated by its surviving cill. The west elevation contains two windows similar to those flanking the doorway on the north gable. The south elevation shows the gable of the original building to the left with a modern projection to the right featuring a steeply pitched gabled roof. The south gable upper level contains two more windows matching those on the north gable; the ground floor appears to have two openings, one likely a window and one possibly a doorway, though not fully visible. All windows feature modern multi-pane frames with label moulding.
The east elevation consists of a flat-roofed section that appears to have been built in two stages, with an earlier section to the right (north) and a deeper, more recent section to the left. This section contains a single window located right of centre, with a projecting chimneystack to its left. The flat roof is covered in asphalt. A small pitched section to this elevation has a Velux window.
The building was extended to the east side in the mid to later twentieth century, with modernisation recorded by C.E.B. Brett in 1971 as having recently occurred, including unsuitable window insertions to the upper north gable. A projection to the southeast corner with an extremely steeply pitched gabled roof was added sometime after this, possibly in the 1980s or early 1990s. This modern projection is of limited architectural interest. PVCu rainwater goods are present throughout.
Local climate
House (former school house), 7 Whitepark Road, Glebe TD, Ballycastle, County Antrim, BT54 6HD sits in one of the wettest parts of the UK, with an average of 1,340 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 96% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 97% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 1 freeze-thaw cycle a year, fewer than 99% of listed buildings. Of these, 1 follows 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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