Historic Building Details

HB Ref No:
HB06/01/013 D

Address :
50-52 Harbour Road, Carnlough, Ballymena Co Antrim BT44 0EU

Townland:
Carnlough South

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Survey 2:
Record Only

Date of Listing:
25/06/1979 00:00:00

Date of De-listing:
25/06/2002 00:00:00

Current Use:
House - Terrace

Former Use
House - Terrace

Conservation Area:
Yes

Industrial Archaeology:
No

Vernacular:
No

Thatched:
No

Monument:
No

Derelict:
No

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OS Map No:
45/3

IG Ref:
D2872 1807

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Owner Category

Private

Exterior Description And Setting

A two-storey three-bay house with rendered walls, slated roof, and a shop-front to the ground floor, forming part of a terrace of six houses. Main entrance faces east. Front elevation: Roof of Bangor blue slates in regular courses, two chimneys, one at each extremity, smooth rendered. Wall smooth rendered, lined and blocked, with raised quoins to left-hand extremity; cast iron gutter and downpipe. Windows to first floor are modern rectangular timber fixed lights with top-hung vents, set in plain reveals, with projecting cills. Openings to ground floor are from left to right: one window as previous to first floor; a rectangular timber panelled door with plain rectangular fanlight; a shop-front comprising a pair of large timber fixed lights of double glazing, in recessed cills, flanking a modern glazed timber door set in plain reveals, a panel of wall above shop-front has a projecting canted plane as a ground for a shop sign but none fixed in position. Rear elevation: two-storey with roof of Bangor blue slates in regular courses; smooth rendered chimneys to extremities of ridge; two new flush rooflights; PVC gutters and downpipes. Walls dry-dashed with pebbles and limestone chippings. Elevation three windows wide at first floor level: central one a rectangular timber casement with fixed light; two flanking windows, rectangular timber fixed light with top-hung vent. Ground floor to left of projection, a lean-to with rendered walls, corrugated iron roof, and timber double casement window. To right of projection, a ground floor window as on first floor above. Side wall of projection one window, similar, to left of flush wooden door. Concrete yard with a two-storey gabled building beyond, not included in listing; roof and walls similar to main house. Elevation of building in yard toward rear of house: two openings to first floor closed by ledged doors; two similar doors to ground floor with window between, large timber fixed light. Both gables blank. Elevation of building in yard toward High Street: one window to first floor, timber sliding sash, vertically hung, with horns, one horizontal glazing bar each sash; double garage doors, ledged, set in rendered surround, to ground floor. To left hand side, an entrance to yard with flush doors and corrugated iron roof. SETTING: The building stands in a terrace of six houses, within the built-up area of the village, facing directly onto the pavement, with an unobstructed view to the harbour across the main road.

Architects

Not Known

Historical Information

Precise date of building not known but it appears on the OS map of 1903; a photograph taken by 1872 shows the building with a shop-front to part of it. References – Primary Sources 1. OS Map 1903, Co Antrim 25. Secondary Sources 1. UAHS, Glens of Antrim, (Belfast, 1971), p 20 (item no. 16) 2. C. Dallat, The Road to the Glens (Belfast, 1989), p 20. 3. M. McSparran, C. Dallat, and J. Irvine, Oh Maybe it was Yesterday (Glens of Antrim Historical Society, 1980), p 18 (a photograph taken by 1872 shows the building).

Criteria for Listing

Architectural Interest

Not listed

Historic Interest

Not listed

Evaluation

A plain building of no intrinsic architectural or historical interest.

General Comments

Date of Survey

28 November 2000