Northern Bank, 24 Ann Street, Ballycastle, Co Antrim, BT54 6AD is a listed building in the Causeway Coast and Glens local planning authority area, Northern Ireland.

Northern Bank, 24 Ann Street, Ballycastle, Co Antrim, BT54 6AD

WRENN ID
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Grade
Local Planning Authority
Causeway Coast and Glens
Constituency
North Antrim MP: Jim Allister (TUV)
Country
Northern Ireland
Irish grid reference
D 115 408
Coordinates
55.20181, -6.24954
Source
NI Environment Agency listing

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Description

Northern Bank

This uncompromisingly stark and modern two-storey cube-like bank building was constructed in 1970 to designs by Ferguson & McIlveen for the newly established Northern Bank, an amalgamation of the former Northern Banking Co. and the Belfast Banking Co. It stands in complete contrast to the predominantly late Georgian and Victorian character of Ann Street.

The bank is positioned on the north-west side of Ann Street at a bend in the street line. A two-storey gabled former manager's house in a more accessible modern style is attached but set back behind a small railed forecourt.

The asymmetrical front elevation faces roughly south-east and consists of a high wall façade dominated by a five-panel window ensemble with concrete surround and concrete mullions. Tall windows sit between ribbed top and bottom infill spandrels. The rhythm is broken by the usual bank automatic dispensers. Tucked into one corner is an entrance with a flat canopy, supported on slim steel columns, which crosses the open forecourt to abut No. 28. The wall is faced with stone slabs of Westmoreland slate. Above the entrance, the bank name appears in applied block letters.

The north-east elevation facing into the forecourt is blank. The south-west elevation is abutted by the neighbouring property. The rear elevation is finished in dry dash and contains five narrow high-level windows of differing heights. The building has a flat roof.

The former manager's house extends from the north-east corner of the bank. It is a two-storey split-level gabled structure in brown brick and dry dash with a pan-tile covered roof and various sized large windows with modern frames. The plan form is irregular with a kink towards the south-west end. A high-level garden to the rear means the property appears as single storey from that side.

Previously, the Ballycastle branch of the Northern Banking Co. had occupied premises in Market Street custom-built in 1863, having moved there from a property in Ann Street. The Belfast Banking Co. established a branch in the town in 1918, occupying the building now belonging to the local Credit Union.

Local climate

Northern Bank, 24 Ann Street, Ballycastle, Co Antrim, BT54 6AD 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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