Glenhurst, 28 Oldstone Road, Muckamore, Antrim, BT41 4PY

Glenhurst is a substantial two-storey gabled rendered house with a lower single storey gabled block attached to the south end, situated on Oldstone Road facing east towards the main road. The building is set back slightly from the road with a gravelled front garden and a low rendered plinth wall surmounted by original iron railings and gate.

The main house features a roof of Bangor blue slates in regular courses with deep overhangs to the gables. Two symmetrically arranged chimneys are smoothly cement rendered with black painted blocking courses and modern black pots. Cast iron guttering and downpipe runs to the right-hand end, returning to the north gable. The walls are smooth cement rendered, lined and blocked, and painted white.

Windows are Tudor arched timber sliding sash vertically hung with metal glazing bars, mostly 6 over 6 with margin lights and intersecting tracery lights, without horns on the front elevation. They are set in plain reveals painted black with angled stone cills also painted black. Tudor style moulded rectangular drip moulds adorn the ground floor windows. First floor windows are reduced in size. The main entrance is a panelled and glazed rectangular timber door with coloured glass margins decoratively etched, below a Tudor arched fanlight of nine panes with margins and intersecting tracery. This is set between plain painted pilasters on moulded bases carrying a moulded pedimented hood. A modern tiled doorstep extends to a front path and steps up to a front pedestrian gateway.

To the right of the main entrance, a single storey lean-to with a similar rendered finish extends in the same plane, with a flush verge. Beyond this is a low screen wall to the front yard surmounted by looped wrought iron railings. To the left, set back slightly, is a lower single storey block two windows wide, with a similar roof, one chimney on the gable, and guttering with a cast iron downpipe to the left-hand end. The window openings of this block are blind, blocked with smooth cement render, though they retain the label moulds of the main elevation.

The south gable of the main house is rendered as the entrance front with moulded barge boards to the overhanging eaves on a pair of shaped brackets and tongued and grooved soffits. The south gable of the additional block features overhanging eaves with moulded and shaped barge boards including a scalloped underside and shaped timber finial, with plain sheeted soffits. Two windows here are similar to the ground floor of the entrance front but rectangular, with a plain panel at the head below the arch, and with horns.

The rear elevation is complex, comprising the main block of two storeys with one window wide to the left of a gabled two-storey projection and two windows wide to the right of it. The lower southern block extends two windows wide, and a lower block to the left is one window wide. Roofs are slated as the front, walls rendered as previous, and cast iron gutters and downpipes are throughout, with a PVC soil pipe to the gabled projection. The single storey block to the right has two rectangular timber sashed windows set in plain openings with angled stone cills. The main block has rectangular timber sliding sash windows, mostly 6 over 6 to the ground floor and mostly 3 over 6 to the first floor, all with horns and with exposed sash boxes. The gabled projection has one window to each floor on its south side, similar to the adjacent ground floor; the north side and west gable are blank. The single storey block to the left has a similar slated roof, rendering, and rainwater goods to the main front elevation, with overhanging eaves and timber fascia, and one sashed window.

Extending to the left beyond the single storey block is a basalt rubble outbuilding with a corrugated iron roof and a rectangular timber small paned window in brick reveals. The north gable of the north outbuilding is rendered with wet dash, extending to the left into the end wall of a flat roofed block.

The north gable of the house is similar to the south, but a long single storey gabled wing projects to the north, returning across the ground floor of the gable as a lean-to projecting bay, both facing into a small yard partly open to the front. The lean-to bay has a wall facing the yard rendered as previous with a slated roof, and contains a rectangular timber door with sidelight window and a modern rectangular timber fixed light with top-hung vent. The single storey wing has a front wall rendered as previous with two rectangular timber small-paned casements with concrete cills, a flat soffit of overhanging eaves forming the head to the windows, and a slated roof.

Extending to the north from the single storey wing is a gabled outbuilding of snecked basalt, partly whitened, with brick block dressings, panelled and flush timber doors and derelict windows, with a corrugated iron roof. The yard is surfaced in concrete, and the inner faces of the enclosing walls of the small yard to each end and along the east side are smooth cement rendered. The east side contains a corrugated asbestos roofed shelter and a rectangular timber ledged and braced door up five steps leading to the public footpath.

To the south of the main building, a gravelled area contains flower beds and a detached modern garage of smooth rendered walls and slated roof, with lawns beyond. The ground level drops steeply to the rear in terraces, gravelled and hedged, reached by a flight of brick steps with a modern timber handrail; an overgrown patch of ground lies to the west.