26-32 High Street, Antrim, BT41 4AN

A group of late Victorian terrace houses, constructed between 1860 and 1879, now combined into a single commercial unit with shop frontage. The building stands at the end of a larger terrace on the main street of Antrim, opening directly onto the pavement, with a broad pavement along the west side and a concrete brick-paved alleyway along the east side.

The three-storey south elevation facing the street is the principal façade. The roof is laid in Bangor blue slates in regular courses with red terracotta ridges. Dormer roofs are similarly finished with moulded terracotta finials and open barge boards in black painted timber. Moulded cast iron gutters are positioned between the dormers, with cast iron downpipes that discharge into moulded guttering at the second storey. Red brick chimneys with red stub pots rise from the roofline.

The upper storeys are constructed of red brick with yellow brick block dressings to the windows. The windows to the upper storeys are coupled segmental arched timber sliding sash windows, vertically hung with 1 over 1 glazing bars and horns, set in stop-chamfered reveals. All upper windows are currently boarded up. The ground floor has been substantially altered with a later three-bay shop front of unequal bay divisions: a recessed shop front to the left, a blind panelled shop front to the centre containing a rectangular window, and a blind panelled bay to the right containing an automatic cash machine. The shop fronts are constructed of painted timber.

The west elevation contains a gable of new red brick with yellow brick quoins to the extremities. It is otherwise blind except for the modern shop front returning from the front elevation at ground floor level, similarly constructed with one rectangular window of fixed lights. Timber barge boards finish the gable. A single red brick chimney with a yellow brick corbel course and two stub pots sits at the gable apex. Extending to the left and set back slightly is a modern single storey rear return with a slated roof and rendered walls, featuring segmental arched windows with modern timber fixed light glazing.

The rear elevation has a slated roof matching the main roof. The walling is dash rendered with yellow brick quoins to the right-hand extremity and includes PVC downpipes. Five windows to the first floor contain modern rectangular fixed lights with top-hung vents. A long modern single storey rear return projects from the ground floor with a slated roof, dash rendered walling, segmental arched modern windows, and PVC rainwater goods. A doorway to the left-hand extremity of the rear elevation contains a modern rectangular flush metal door with plain fanlight.

The east elevation within a ground floor alleyway consists of a smooth cement rendered wall containing a rectangular steel plated door. To the rear of the rear returns is an enclosure bounded to the east by modern steel fencing.

The precise date of construction is not recorded but the buildings are stylistically dated to the late Victorian era. An Ordnance Survey map of 1857 indicates a building on the site, though its precise date remains indeterminate. This record now covers numbers 30 and 32 High Street, which were previously separate listing records. The building lies within a conservation area and was delisted on 23 December 2005.