Historic Building Details

HB Ref No:
HB06/01/001

Address :
Stonyhill Cottage, 14 Ballymena Road Carnlough Ballymena Co Antrim BT44 0HT

Townland:
Stony Hill

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Survey 2:
Record Only

Date of Listing:

Date of De-listing:

Current Use:
House

Former Use
House

Conservation Area:
No

Industrial Archaeology:
No

Vernacular:
No

Thatched:
No

Monument:
No

Derelict:
No

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OS Map No:
45/3

IG Ref:
D2868 1686

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Owner Category

Private

Exterior Description And Setting

A 1½ storey three-bay house with a projecting flat roofed porch. Main entrance front faces east. Entrance front: roof of modern concrete tiles, with three swept dormers to front. Walls rendered, lined, and blocked, with quoins to extremities. Central flat roofed porch flanked each side by canted flat roofed bays Windows to bays are timber sashed, 1 over 1, with horns, some with margins; windows to front of porch are 6 over 6, with margins, without horns; windows to dormers are modern timber fixed lights, casements, and vents. Porch contains twin entrances, one to each side, with modern glazed and panelled doors incorporating a radial fanlight feature. Other elevations are of similar materials, with sash windows 6 over 6 and 3 over 3, with horns. SETTING: The building stands at the edge of the town on a slightly elevated site overlooking the sea. It faces the main road but is set well back from it within its own grounds; fields to front and sides.

Architects

Not Known

Historical Information

Precise date of building not known, but it appears on the OS map of 1857. References – Primary Sources 1. OS Map 1857, Co Antrim 25. Secondary Sources 1. UAHS, Glens of Antrim (Belfast, 1971), p 19.

Criteria for Listing

Architectural Interest

Not listed

Historic Interest

Not listed

Evaluation

This is a mid-19th century building of no special historic interest and of limited original architectural merit, which has now lost a number of its original features.

General Comments

Date of Survey

20 November 2000