Court House, Victoria Road, Larne, Co Antrim is a listed building in the Mid and East Antrim local planning authority area, Northern Ireland.
Court House, Victoria Road, Larne, Co Antrim
- WRENN ID
- late-corbel-crow
- Grade
- Local Planning Authority
- Mid and East Antrim
- Constituency
- East Antrim MP: Sammy Wilson (DUP)
- Country
- Northern Ireland
- Irish grid reference
- D 402 028
- Coordinates
- 54.8533, -5.81731
- Source
- NI Environment Agency listing
Description
This Edwardian courthouse, built between 1900 and 1919, was designed by the local architect Samuel P. Close. It retains original features on its entrance façade but has undergone significant alterations elsewhere.
The building is a gabled structure of two storeys, designed in a freely interpreted Classical style. The main gable features a large, segmental recess with rusticated detailing, containing three windows and surmounted by blind panels. Above this is a segmental pediment over a Tuscan-pilastered doorway leading to a porch located on the east side. The walls are rendered, and the roof is slated. A modern gabled extension has been added to the rear.
The courthouse stands on a detached site within the town, set back slightly from the pavement and originally enclosed by a low stone boundary wall and railings. Modern security fencing now surrounds the property. It is situated between two-storey terrace houses on its left side and a detached former cottage hospital, now converted to offices, on its right. The building is located within the area of the scheduled monument ANT 40:35. Further information is provided in C.E.B. Brett’s Court Houses and Market Houses of the Province of Ulster (U.A.H.S., Belfast, 1973), page 33.
Local climate
Court House, Victoria Road, 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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