7 The Village, Templepatrick, Co Antrim, BT39 0AA

A three-bay two-storey rendered house with classical details, built around 1820, adjoined to and now incorporating a single remaining slightly lower house that was part of a former terrace of six, built around 1800. The building occupies a prominent street-fronted location on the south side of the main street near the centre of Templepatrick village.

The house is double-pile in plan, with the rear section having a lower ridge. Roofs are pitched slate with painted timber bargeboards. The walls are roughcast rendered over a chamfered plinth, except for the front (west) elevations and south gables which are block-marked. All openings are square-headed unless otherwise noted, with painted timber windows and rendered masonry sills throughout.

The principal northeast elevation is symmetrical, featuring a central entrance flanked by a window. Flush rendered V-jointed quoins define the corners. Windows in the side bays are bipartite 1/1 timber sashes, with wallhead dormers over the first floor examples, which have fretted bargeboards. The first floor centre bay contains a bipartite side-hung casement. The principal entrance is a painted timber glazed door with multiple raised and fielded panels and margin overlights, set within a doorcase of two pilasters surmounted by a full Doric entablature containing both triglyphs and guttae. A stone threshold is accessed by a single step.

The principal elevation of the incorporated former No. 9 has been remodelled to three windows wide, each with stop-ended chamfered architraves. Ground floor windows are 6/6 timber sashes; first floor windows are 3/6 sashes. The northwest gable overlooks the driveway and is double-gabled. The right gable bay has a bipartite window with stop-ended label mould, and two 2/2 sashes to the first floor. To the left is a canted bay with 1/1 sashes, with a matching bipartite sash over it to the first floor.

The southeast elevation of the main house shows an asymmetrical arrangement: a 1/1 sliding sash at ground floor left, a small low-level six-paned window at the centre, and a small 2/2 sliding sash at right; a roughly central 2/2 sliding sash occurs to the first floor. The southeast elevation of the former No. 9 is abutted by a lean-to porch containing a variety of one-over-one and two-over-two sashes and one six-light casement to ground and first floors. The exposed section of the southeast gable of the main house displays a variety of sashes and a sheeted entrance door.

The north gable of former No. 9 is blank.

The house fronts directly onto the main street with a garden bounded to the street by a low wall with hedge. Access is from the northeast through a gateway set back from the street, featuring ornate wrought iron double gates and square cast iron pillars with moulded caps. A hedge-lined drive past the northwest gable leads to a paved courtyard.

A detached multi-bay single-storey stone outbuilding stands to the rear of former No. 9. It has a single central wallhead dormer with sheeted painted timber doors and a catslide dormer to its right end. Openings are square-headed with red brick dressings, painted timber sheeted doors, and casement windows, set within a paved courtyard.

Rainwater goods are cast iron throughout.

The property appears on the 1834 Ordnance Survey Map. The 1836 Townland Valuations record the house and office as owned by George Gilpin and valued at £3 8s 0d. By 1860, the Immediate Lessor for properties along The Village was Lord Templetown. The building is documented as appearing on the 1932 Ordnance Survey Map. Survey records from the 1970s noted that the attached former No. 7 comprised a surgeon's office with the second pile serving as the surgeon's house. The five terraces forming the original row were demolished after the early 1990s. The property's historical significance lies in its original function as a doctor's surgery, reflecting its social and economic importance to the community.