60 Abbeyview, Muckamore, Antrim, Co Antrim, BT41 4QA

60 Abbeyview, Muckamore

A single-storey house with a hipped roof and symmetrical front elevation, comprising two windows on each side of a central entrance doorway facing south. The walls are rendered with a dry dashed finish incorporating pebbles, with smooth rendered surrounds to windows and door. Projecting eaves course, frieze and stringcourse are present, along with rusticated quoins at the extremities.

The roof is laid with Bangor blue slates in regular courses, with dark grey tiles to the ridges. Cast iron guttering returns to the sides, mounted on a timber fascia over the eaves course. Three chimneys are positioned: one behind the main ridge to the left, one on the right-hand gable, and one to the rear at the left-hand side. All are finished in smooth cement render with projecting caps; the central chimney retains three original pots, while the others have two modern pots each.

The windows are rectangular timber sliding sash type, vertically hung, with 6 over 6 panes and horns. They feature thin glazing bars and are finished with dark brown varnish, with projecting painted stone cills. The entrance is recessed within an elliptically arched opening containing a looped and radial fanlight. The rectangular 6-panel door is a later replacement, accompanied by single-pane sidelights with barley-sugar twist or rope-patterned pilasters; the outer pair of pilasters retain original brass bell-pulls. The door has a dark brown stained finish with a modern tiled doorstep.

A low smooth rendered plinth wall runs along the front, punctuated by short pillars and surmounted by modern hooped railings, containing flower beds banked up to just below window cill level. To the right, set back, is a yard wall rendered in wet dash above a smooth plinth, with projecting flat concrete copings and a rectangular doorway containing a ledged timber door in plain reveals.

The west elevation has a gable roof to the left, walls rendered as the front elevation with a smooth rendered projecting plinth, and cast iron guttering with a circular cast iron downpipe to the right side. Two windows similar to those on the front are present. Extending to the left is a single-storey garage with a low-pitched asphalt roof, timber fascia, wet-dashed rendered walls with smooth plinth, and a modern garage door with two-light plain rectangular fanlight.

The rear elevation displays a hipped slated roof with two gabled projecting returns and wet-dashed rendered walls. A central gabled block contains a modern rectangular timber fixed light with a top-hung vent. To the right of this central return is the side of the flat-roofed garage with cast iron guttering and downpipe.

The east elevation has a hipped slated roof and walls rendered as the west elevation, smooth rendered on the left to where the enclosing yard wall projects, then wet-dashed beyond. Cast iron guttering with two cast iron downpipes is present. Extending to the right is a lower flat-roofed block with a blank wet-dashed wall. A rear doorway to the yard is segmental arched, containing a modern segmental-headed timber sheeted door with modern metal handles.

The east wall within the yard has ground-floor smooth cement render with roughcast above. One window, a rectangular timber fixed light with top-hung vent, is set in plain reveals; a rectangular timber doorway contains a modern glazed flush timber door with timber board above head, presumably covering a fanlight. Inner yard walls are smooth cement rendered. Against the front yard wall stands a lean-to outbuilding: brick walls with smooth cement render, two rectangular sheeted timber doors, and a corrugated iron roof with PVC guttering and downpipe, containing two store rooms. A lightweight timber outside toilet with perspex roofed shelter stands against the rear wall.

The building faces directly onto a tarmac roadway adjacent to a former industrial site. The roadway merges with hard standings and an extensive concrete area opposite. Two-storey red brick terraces of former mill housing stand to the south-west, with red brick industrial buildings to the east and south-east. To the rear, the garden descends to the bank of the Six Mile Water. Immediately west of the house is a modern concrete brick paved area approached by a pair of modern ironwork gates with modern rustic yellow brick piers, concrete caps and ball finials; the gateway links to the house via similar railings, pier and a small segmental arched pedestrian gate. The west boundary is formed by hedge and fence. The east and front boundaries are formed by high spiked steel fencing, which abuts a modern steel public bridge at the south-east corner, crossing the river.