Silverstream Lodge, 9 Shore Road, Greenisland, Carrickfergus, BT38 8UA

Silverstream Lodge is an elegant and well-proportioned mid-19th century villa located on Shore Road in Greenisland, overlooking Belfast Lough. Built around 1850, the detached house has been modernised and altered during the twentieth century. Whilst these changes are largely sympathetic to the building's character, there is insufficient original material to warrant listing.

The house is a three-bay two-storey rendered structure, facing east and set within its own grounds to the south of Shore Road. It features a two-storey three-sided canted bay to the south garden elevation, with single-storey flat-roof entrance porches to both the front east elevation and rear west elevation.

The roof is finished in natural slate with a hipped form and raised lead ridges. There are three tall rendered chimneystacks with octagonal clay pots. Guttering is ogee cast-iron on paired corbels with half-round cast-iron downpipes. Flat lead roofs cover the three-sided bay and both entrance porches, each with ogee cast-iron guttering.

The walling is painted ruled-and-lined rendered finish with a plat-band to first floor level and a projecting render plinth course. Window openings are square-headed with painted concrete sills and replacement six-over-six timber sash windows. The front and rear entrance porches are square-plan with slender round-headed window openings to both cheeks, fitted with round-headed two-over-two timber sash windows without horns. The front porch has an early flat-panelled timber door with central fillet and rectangular glazed overlight, opening onto a large sandstone step and concrete paved area. The rear porch has a replacement double-leaf timber glazed door with overlight. The full-height bay to the south garden elevation has a pair of square-headed door openings with replacement glazed timber doors and rectangular overlights, opening onto a raised sandstone-flagged patio spanning the entire garden elevation.

The front elevation (east) is three bays wide with a central entrance porch flanked by window openings and a single window above the porch. The garden elevation (south) is three bays wide with the full-height canted bay at the west end. The rear elevation (west) mirrors the front. The north elevation is four bays wide with a large flat-roof extension to the ground floor projecting into the enclosed yard.

Pair of tall basalt ashlar piers with moulded sandstone capstones and replacement timber gates abut the northeast corner, connected by a short rendered wall to the house with steel railing. A semi-circular flat-roof extension built around 2000 fronts the north elevation into the enclosed yard with timber-framed vertical glazing. A lean-to glazed sunroom built around 1950 spans the entire east of the enclosed yard with tripartite timber-framed fixed-pane windows and red brick walls. The rear yard to the north elevation is enclosed by tall rendered walls with a single-storey red-brick building built around 1990 running along the road to the north, having an M-profile roof and containing a garage.

The building appears on the second edition Ordnance Survey map of 1857, captioned 'Silverstream Lodge'. It is shown as having two entrances, and the current owner believes the building was originally two dwellings. A large property known as 'Silverstream House' is shown across the road. In Griffith's Valuation, the lodge is included under the reference for the main house and valued at £27, with occupier Henry Manley and lessor Jane Wilson. The Valuation Revision book of 1884–1894 records the occupier as William Kingen, revised to William Robb in 1891. The lessor is recorded as Charles Johnson, with the building valued at £33 10 shillings, a valuation that remains unchanged in the Valuation Revisions of the 1930s. In 1911 the occupier is recorded as Mary Robb, continuing into the 1930s.