47 Oldstone Road, Muckamore, Antrim, Co Antrim, BT41 4SE

47 Oldstone Road, Muckamore, is a former 19th-century school and teacher's residence built in 1865 by Samuel Thompson, owner of the Muckamore Abbey estate. It retains historic interest in relation to the development of the Muckamore area by the Thompson family, who were also responsible for funding the nearby St Jude's church and rectory. The building was later known as Muckamore County Primary School by the 1960s before conversion to a private house.

The building is a single-storey structure with a steeply pitched gabled roof covered in Bangor blue slates laid in regular courses. It comprises a main block with a gabled rear wing to one side and a two-storey rear return to the other. The walls are rendered with white-painted roughcast over a smooth cement-rendered plinth, with vertical cement-rendered strips to the corners. The curvilinear openwork timber barge boards to the oversailing eaves are ornamented with turned timber finials. A metal ventilator coil sits on the main ridge.

The west elevation, which faces the main road, is symmetrical with one window to each side of a centrally positioned porch. The Tudor-Revivalist arched porch has smooth rendered walls with a chamfered reveal and drip moulding over the arch. Original lettering has recently been revealed beneath stripped paintwork, inscribed 'Muckamore National School' in Gothic lettering. The porch entrance comprises a pair of original sheeted timber doors with exposed iron nail heads. The side walls of the porch contain ocular windows, likely later insertions or remodelling.

The gables of the main block have modern rectangular PVC casement windows set in large rectangular panels of smooth render and brick panelling. Similar modern rectangular casements have been inserted to the ground floor of the rear wing on the left-hand side. Windows retain cast iron gutters and downpipes. The rear return retains rectangular timber sashed windows, some 1 over 1 and some 2 over 1 with horns, set in smooth cement-rendered surrounds with Tudor-Revivalist drip mouldings. The end gable of the rear return has similar sashed windows set in plain surrounds without drip mouldings. Modern flush rooflights have been added to the rear elevations of both the rear return and rear wing. A later lean-to block of partly whitened and partly rendered brickwork has been added to the rear return. Red brick chimneys serve the rear return.

The building stands in a rural setting facing the main road, set back within its own grounds. A tarmac forecourt extends across the front and to the sides, with a mature garden to the rear containing trees on the sides and rear boundaries. The front boundary is formed by a low basalt rubble wall with rock coping stones. Modern dry-dashed gate piers support a pair of looped iron gates.

The building has experienced loss of a number of its original features and is now of limited architectural interest, though it retains some character through surviving elements of its Tudor-Revivalist detailing and the recently revealed original school lettering.