Ballycarry Primary School, 23 Hillhead Road, Ballycarry, Larne, Co Antrim, BT38 9HE is a listed building in the Mid and East Antrim local planning authority area, Northern Ireland.

Ballycarry Primary School, 23 Hillhead Road, Ballycarry, Larne, Co Antrim, BT38 9HE

WRENN ID
forgotten-truss-raven
Grade
Local Planning Authority
Mid and East Antrim
Constituency
East Antrim MP: Sammy Wilson (DUP)
Country
Northern Ireland
Irish grid reference
J 446 943
Coordinates
54.77628, -5.7523
Source
NI Environment Agency listing

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Description

Ballycarry Primary School is a modern school building constructed in 1953 and opened on November 5th, 1953. It represents an example of post-war architecture, utilizing prefabricated aluminium units—a construction method of innovative interest at the time. This school was the 28th in Northern Ireland built using this system, developed by the Bristol Aeroplane Company and manufactured by Shorts in Belfast. The building exhibits an asymmetrical layout, composed of aluminium prefabricated units and a red brick block. It features flange-like supports to the roof along one side, and the roofs are covered with felt. The school stands on the edge of the village of Ballycarry, in a rural location close to the main road, making it visible from that route. While initially innovative, the building is not a pioneering example of this construction type and no longer stands in its original condition.

Local climate

Ballycarry Primary School, 23 Hillhead Road, Ballycarry, Larne, Co Antrim, BT38 9HE 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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