Garden within Glenarm Demesne, (off Straidkilly Road), Glenarm, Ballymena, Co Antrim, BT44 0BD is a listed building in the Mid and East Antrim local planning authority area, Northern Ireland.
Garden within Glenarm Demesne, (off Straidkilly Road), Glenarm, Ballymena, Co Antrim, BT44 0BD
- WRENN ID
- silent-pediment-river
- Grade
- Local Planning Authority
- Mid and East Antrim
- Constituency
- East Antrim MP: Sammy Wilson (DUP)
- Country
- Northern Ireland
- Irish grid reference
- D 306 151
- Coordinates
- 54.96693, -5.96014
- Source
- NI Environment Agency listing
Description
The garden within Glenarm Demesne is a rectangular walled garden, established before 1832 and measuring approximately 170 by 85 metres. A smaller vegetable garden is located to the north. The garden is enclosed by a tall, roughly 3-metre high, random rubble wall, and incorporates shrubs, flowerbeds arranged geometrically, and pathways. Pear trees have been trained against the south-facing wall, and a long, single-storey lean-to greenhouse is situated along the north wall.
Within the garden is a two-storey gardener's house, dating from around 1875, and a row of mid-19th century single-storey lean-to stores along with a long lean-to greenhouse, likely dating from the early 1900s. The gardener's house, greenhouse, and stores are listed separately under HB06/02/001C.
A garden is indicated on a map of 1779, with a further garden north of the castle, suggesting an ornamental function. An illustration from possibly the 1780s indicates a more practical use for the latter garden. The present garden is shown on an Ordnance Survey map of 1832, including a greenhouse and a small vegetable garden to the north. The row of stores appears to have been added between 1832 and 1858, and the gardener's house around 1875. While the current greenhouse form dates from the early 20th century, a greenhouse existed on the site as early as 1833. The garden is located within a conservation area and is in private ownership.
Local climate
Garden within Glenarm Demesne, (off Straidkilly Road), Glenarm, Ballymena, Co Antrim, BT44 0BD sits in a wetter-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 1,050 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 85% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 79% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 10 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 90% of listed buildings. Of these, 7 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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