7 Ballyeaston Village, Ballyeaston, Ballyclare, Co Antrim, BT39 9SH

Detached three-bay two-storey vernacular house, built around 1820, located on an elevated site to the north side of Ballyeaston Village. The building is rectangular in plan with a one-and-a-half-storey extension with pitched roof to the rear. It retains some original features that contribute to the character of the village grouping, though it has been compromised by alteration and modernisation and represents a relatively common type of which better examples exist.

The pitched tiled roof features blue and black clay ridge tiles, with red brick chimney stacks topped with clay chimney pots to the gables. Rainwater goods are half-round uPVC. Walls are roughcast rendered with smooth rendered string courses over a smooth banded plinth, which is ruled-and-lined on the principal elevation. Windows are timber 2/2 sliding sash with painted masonry cills.

The principal elevation faces west and has a central replacement uPVC entrance door, with one window to the right and two to the left at ground floor, and three windows to the first floor. The left gable has one replacement window at first floor and is abutted by corrugated metal gates providing access to an enclosed yard to the rear. The rear elevation has a central timber sheeted door with two windows to the left at ground and first floor levels, the right window at first floor being a metal casement. This elevation is abutted by a two-storey outbuilding with pitched roof to the right. The right gable is blank and abutted by corrugated metal gates giving access to an enclosed yard to the rear.

A multi-bay outbuilding features roughcast rendered walls, metal casement windows, and a timber sheeted door. The house is street-fronted to the west with a concrete yard enclosed to the rear by a series of single and two-storey pitched roof outbuildings.

Historical records show that the first edition Ordnance Survey map of 1834 depicts a group of buildings aligned as the current group to the right side of the road. Griffiths Valuation of 1859 records the site as land occupied by Samuel Crawford under the immediate lessor John Owens, Esq. A hand-drawn map in the fieldbook shows buildings of similar plan to the cottages, divided and marked as three separate properties: a house and small garden valued at £1 10s occupied by Isabella Houston with lessor John Graham; a house valued at 15 shillings occupied by Margaret Wilson with lessor John Allen; and a house and office valued at £1 occupied by John Allen.