Historic houses · Northern Ireland
Portstewart Town Hall
Portstewart Town Hall in Northern Ireland, United Kingdom.
Kenneth Allen — CC BY-SA 2.0 via Wikimedia Commons licence
Plan your visit
- Typical visit
- 1 h–2 h
About
Portstewart Town Hall is a place of interest in Northern Ireland, United Kingdom — drawn from open-data sources for visitor reference. See the linked Wikipedia article for the full description.
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From the Wikipedia article
Portstewart Town Hall is a municipal structure in The Crescent, Portstewart, County Londonderry, Northern Ireland. The structure, which has been closed to the public since December 2019, is a Grade B2 listed building.
Excerpt from Wikipedia under CC BY-SA 4.0. See the source article linked in Sources below.
Background
History
Following significant population growth, largely associated with the seaside tourism industry, the area became an urban district in 1916. In the late 1920s, council leaders decided to commission a permanent meeting place for the new council: the estate of the former principal landowner in the area, Commander Robert Acheson Cromie Montagu of Cromore House, made the selected site available to the council on a long lease for which they paid a premium of £1,000 in 1933. The new building was designed by Benjamin Cowser in the modernist style, built by F. B. McKee & Co. of Belfast in red brick with concrete dressings at a cost of £8,000, and was officially opened by Lady Craigavon on 30 May 1935.…
Sourced from Wikipedia under CC BY-SA 4.0.
- Coordinates
- 55.1828, -6.7189
- Address
- The Crescent, Portstewart
- Established
- 1939
Sources
- wikidata: Q112641664 (CC0)
- wikipedia: Portstewart Town Hall (CC BY-SA 4.0)
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Frequently asked questions
- Where is Portstewart Town Hall?
- Portstewart Town Hall is in Northern Ireland, in the United Kingdom — coordinates 55.1828°, -6.7189°.
- When was Portstewart Town Hall built?
- Portstewart Town Hall dates to 1939.