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

165 Belfast Road, Muckamore

An attached four-bay one-and-a-half storey house built around 1820, located to the south of Belfast Road. The building is part of a picturesque group of six dwellings along this road that are of architectural and historical note.

The house has a rectangular plan with a one-and-a-half storey pitched roof extension to the rear added in recent years. The pitched roofs are slated with deep overhanging eaves. A central polychromatic brick chimney with three clay pots rises from the main roof. The gables feature fretted timber bargeboards with finials and dropped circle motifs. The walls are ruled-and-lined render.

The principal elevation faces north. The ground floor contains windows in three bays, with the entrance door positioned in the third bay from the left. The door opening is Tudor-arch-headed with a painted moulded surround and contains an original square-headed timber panelled door with Tudor arch top panels. The second window from the left is surmounted by a pitched dormer containing the first floor window. A second dormer to the west is shared with the adjoining property at 163 Belfast Road. The windows are square-headed 8/8 timber casements with horns (these are modern replacements), set within Tudor-arch-headed openings with painted masonry sills.

The west elevation is abutted by 163 Belfast Road. The south elevation is largely obscured by the pitched roof extension; the visible section contains a single square-headed uPVC casement window to the ground floor. The modern extension includes a door to the east elevation and uPVC windows to the south elevation at each level. The east elevation contains a single window at each level, with two timber casement windows to the first floor of the extension and a modern timber panelled entrance door and window to the ground floor.

The house is directly accessed from Belfast Road to the north. The main elevation is abutted to the east by smooth rendered square pillars supporting wrought-iron double gates, and by random rubble black-stone walling. A modern garage constructed in the style of the house stands to the south-east of the site.

Rainwater goods comprise cast iron ogee gutters and round downpipes.

The house appears on the First Edition Ordnance Survey map dated 1834 and on all subsequent editions through to 1962, with the plan form remaining unchanged, indicating that the rear extension was undertaken in more recent years. According to the Griffiths Valuation of 1859, the immediate lessor was William Chain and the occupier was Thomas Kilpatrick, with the house valued at £2 5s 0d.

The modern casement windows, while replacements, detract from the building's original appearance, but it remains of interest as part of the significant group of which it forms a part.