Shop store (for 'Penney's Interiors'), [?]Narrow Guage Road, Larne, Co Antrim, BT40 1XB is a listed building in the Mid and East Antrim local planning authority area, Northern Ireland.
Shop store (for 'Penney's Interiors'), [?]Narrow Guage Road, Larne, Co Antrim, BT40 1XB
- WRENN ID
- grim-flagstone-finch
- Grade
- Local Planning Authority
- Mid and East Antrim
- Constituency
- East Antrim MP: Sammy Wilson (DUP)
- Country
- Northern Ireland
- Irish grid reference
- D 400 024
- Coordinates
- 54.8504, -5.8209
- Source
- NI Environment Agency listing
Description
This is a plain, single-storey store building, likely dating from around 1910. It is situated on the north side of [?]Narrow Guage Road, just southeast of Larne town centre. The building measures approximately 25 metres by 11.5 metres and is adjoined by neighbouring buildings to the north and east. The exterior is rendered and painted.
The south-facing gable has a central vehicle entrance with a roller shutter and a large laminated signboard above. To the left of the entrance is a large window opening, now boarded up, and a similar window opening is positioned to the right. Along the longer west elevation, there is another vehicle entrance to the left of centre, followed by a large boarded-up window opening to the left and two further windows to the right. The curved roof is covered in felt.
The building represents a relatively large, although unremarkable, example of a structure employing a Belfast Truss roof, a design developed in the mid-19th century to meet demands for efficient, lightweight, and long-span roofs arising from the Industrial Revolution. McTear & Co., a Belfast felt-making firm, advertised such structures as early as 1866. Production continued until 1908. Another firm, Anderson & Co., began producing trusses in 1886, followed by their Mk II version in 1896, which emphasized maximizing long spans with minimal weight. This model was later adopted by other companies. The term "Belfast truss" is frequently used to describe timber bowstring trusses where the internal bracing members join the top curved member, rather than the bottom. The building was surveyed as part of a wider Belfast Roof Truss survey. It is considered to have industrial archaeological interest.
Local climate
Shop store (for 'Penney's Interiors'), [?]Narrow Guage Road, Larne, Co Antrim, BT40 1XB sits in a wetter-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 1,090 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 87% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 88% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 5 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 97% of listed buildings. Of these, 3 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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