First Trust Bank, Upper Main Street, Larne, Co Antrim is a listed building in the Mid and East Antrim local planning authority area, Northern Ireland.

First Trust Bank, Upper Main Street, Larne, Co Antrim

WRENN ID
first-groin-tarn
Grade
Local Planning Authority
Mid and East Antrim
Constituency
East Antrim MP: Sammy Wilson (DUP)
Country
Northern Ireland
Irish grid reference
D 399 025
Coordinates
54.85115, -5.82241
Source
NI Environment Agency listing

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Description

This is a three-storey bank building dating from 1938, designed by Samuel Stevenson of Belfast. It exemplifies an inter-war building in a Neo-Georgian style, though executed in a restrained and conservative manner. Constructed in rustic brick with a stone plinth, the building is five windows wide, with the three central windows projecting forward beneath a raking parapet. The upper floors feature rectangular timber sliding sash windows, vertically hung with 8 over 8 glazing and horns. Circular windows are present in the outer bays of the top floor. The building occupies a prominent position on Upper Main Street, directly on the road and flanked by one and two-storey commercial premises. Originally built as a branch of the Belfast Savings Bank, it remains in use as a bank.

Local climate

First Trust Bank, Upper Main Street, Larne, Co Antrim 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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