Former Technical School, Victoria Road, Larne, Co Antrim is a listed building in the Mid and East Antrim local planning authority area, Northern Ireland.
Former Technical School, Victoria Road, Larne, Co Antrim
- WRENN ID
- fading-corridor-rush
- Grade
- Local Planning Authority
- Mid and East Antrim
- Constituency
- East Antrim MP: Sammy Wilson (DUP)
- Country
- Northern Ireland
- Irish grid reference
- D 402 027
- Coordinates
- 54.85286, -5.81765
- Source
- NI Environment Agency listing
Description
This is an Edwardian building dating from 1911, originally constructed as Larne Technical School. It was later used as Local Government Offices. The design is by James Heron of Hobart and Heron, of Belfast, and it is located in the Town Parks area of Larne, facing a main road and set back slightly, with a sloping site towards the rear. The building stands within the town’s built-up area, flanked by a terrace of houses and a public park.
The building is a symmetrical two-storey structure of red brick with red sandstone dressings, executed in a free treatment of Renaissance style. It features a central round-arched entrance of rusticated stone, above which is a stone balcony supported on curved stone brackets. Open triangular pediments top the projecting end bays, while a curving segmental open pediment crowns the central entrance bay. The windows are rectangular sliding sash windows, vertically hung with 8 over 8 panes, incorporating horns, and are fitted with top-hung four-pane vents. These windows are set within shallow segmental arches on the entrance front and most of the side elevations. While the exterior retains its original features and presents a dignified, unspoiled appearance, the interior has lost its original character. The building lies within the area of a scheduled monument, ANT 40:35.
Local climate
Former Technical School, 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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