169 Belfast Road, Muckamore, Co Antrim, BT41 2ET

169 Belfast Road, Muckamore, is an attached three-bay one-and-a-half storey house built circa 1820, located to the south of Belfast Road. It forms part of a picturesque group of six dwellings along this road that are notable for their style, character and arrangement.

The house has a rectangular plan with a one-and-a-half storey extension to the rear added in recent years. The pitched and slated roofs have deep overhanging eaves. The main pitched roof features a central polychromatic brick chimney with three clay pots. The gables are ornamented with fretted timber bargeboards, finials and a dropped circle motif. The walls are smooth rendered over a painted plinth.

The principal elevation faces north. The original square-headed 1/1 sliding sash timber windows with horns sit within Tudor-arch-headed openings and have painted masonry sills. The door is located in the right bay, while the other bays contain ground floor windows. The central window is surmounted by a pitched dormer containing the first floor window. The east bay is extended. The entrance door opening is Tudor-arch-headed with a painted moulded surround, containing an original square-headed timber panelled door with Tudor arch top panels and an original brass door-knocker in the form of a stylised stag.

The west elevation is abutted by 167 Belfast Road, with the west elevation of the extension rendered in concrete blockwork. The south elevation is partially abutted by a flat-roofed extension with uPVC windows and glazed doors. The east elevation has a single first-floor window and a replacement uPVC casement window at ground floor level. The extension to this elevation is pitched and contains one large square-headed uPVC window at ground floor level, abutted by a rendered wall enclosing the rear garden.

A single-storey flat-roofed rendered garage stands to the east of the house, connected to it by a rendered wall with door opening. The main elevation is abutted to the east by random rubble black-stone walling with square pillars supporting modern double gates. A timber shed stands to the south-east and a small brick outbuilding to the rear boundary wall. The site is bounded to the south by hedging. Cast iron half-round gutters and round downpipes form the rainwater goods.

The house appears on the first edition Ordnance Survey map of 1834. On subsequent editions dated up to the sixth edition of 1962, the plan form remains unchanged, indicating that the rear extension was carried out in more recent years. According to the Griffiths Valuation of 1859, the Immediate Lessor was William Chaine, the Occupier was James Martin, and the house was valued at £2 5s 0d.