Former Technical School, Portrush, Co. Antrim, BT56 is a listed building in the Causeway Coast and Glens local planning authority area, Northern Ireland.
Former Technical School, Portrush, Co. Antrim, BT56
- WRENN ID
- salt-bastion-aspen
- Grade
- Local Planning Authority
- Causeway Coast and Glens
- Constituency
- East Londonderry MP: Mr Gregory Campbell (DUP)
- Country
- Northern Ireland
- Irish grid reference
- C 858 403
- Coordinates
- 55.20299, -6.65191
- Source
- NI Environment Agency listing
Description
This is a two-storey educational building, originally used as a school and currently still in use as a school. It was surveyed in the First Survey but not listed, and a partial record only was taken during the Second Survey. The building has a hipped slate roof and rendered walls. The symmetrical front elevation features three large windows with 25 panes each. There is an arched entrance with a prominent, painted render surround. Original timber windows have been replaced with uPVC.
Local climate
Former Technical School, Portrush, Co. Antrim, BT56 sits in one of the wettest parts of the UK, with an average of 1,330 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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- No sale records on file
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