House, nr 99 Boghill Road, Mallusk, Newtownabbey, Co.Antrim, BT36 4QT

A detached two-bay two-storey vernacular farmhouse built around 1800, located on the north side of Boghill Road in Kilgreel townland. The building is rectangular in plan with an attached single-storey outbuilding to the west.

The main house has walls of random rubble with fieldstone quoins and cement repairs. The pitched natural slate roof features clay ridge tiles, exposed rafter ends, and a red brick corbelled chimney with concrete verges. Windows are square-headed timber framed 2/2 sliding sash (divided horizontally) with red brick surrounds and exposed timber lintels; the reveals are cement rendered. The principal elevation faces north and contains a square-headed vertically sheeted timber entrance door in the left bay, with a canopy supported on timber posts providing access to a vertically sheeted timber loading door at first floor level. The left bay has a single ground floor window with concrete sill, while the right bay contains a single ground floor window with red brick voussoirs and two windows at first floor level. The east elevation has a single first floor window. The south elevation features a central entrance (now blocked) flanked by single windows at each floor, though the first floor left window is also blocked.

The attached two-bay single-storey rubble outbuilding to the west has a pitched natural slate roof (with corrugated tin to the left bay) on corbelled brick eaves. Walls are random rubble with block repairs. Its principal elevation faces north, with a central vertically sheeted timber entrance door in the left bay and a segmental-arched carriage arch with brick voussoirs (now sagging) in the right bay. The west elevation contains a single casement window at attic level.

A separate detached two-bay single-storey rubble outbuilding to the west has a similar roof arrangement and principal elevation facing east. The left bay contains a central entrance opening with small square openings either side, while the right bay has a vertically sheeted timber door flanked by single windows, all with red brick surrounds and voussoirs. The south elevation is roughcast with a central metal casement window. The west elevation contains an opening with brick voussoirs at left (now partially blocked), and the south elevation has a square-headed opening at attic level.

The site is bounded on all sides by planting and remains of rubble walling (partially visible), with modern farm gates to the north-west and south-west supported on concrete piers. A lane through the centre of the site leads to a modern farm. A recent double-height corrugated tin farm shed with barrel roof stands to the north.

The property is shown on the first edition Ordnance Survey map of 1832. The 1902 map shows an additional outbuilding to the north-east of the complex. Griffith's Valuation of 1859 records the property as "house, offices and land" occupied by John McLaughlin and valued at £2. Valuation Revisions show William McLaughlin as occupier in 1864, with a change of lessor from Reverend Pakenham to Lieutenant General Pakenham. By 1909 the occupier was John McGladdery, though the building's valuation remained unchanged.

The group displays the layout of rural farms during the nineteenth century and retains its setting and much of its original character, though the interiors are mostly gone. It is of a relatively common type, of which better examples exist in better condition and retaining more historic fabric.