890 Antrim Road, Templepatrick, Co Antrim, BT39 0AH

890 Antrim Road is the second house from the right in a terrace of six, built around 1780 and situated on the south side of Main Street in Templepatrick. The three-storey, three-bay house is of late eighteenth-century date and displays the characteristics of urban vernacular and estate architecture associated with the Castle Upton estate.

The house is rectangular on plan, facing north towards the street. The roof is pitched and covered in natural slate, with brick chimneys positioned at the gables and party wall. The walls are roughcast over a contrasting smooth rendered plinth. The principal north elevation is symmetrical, centred on an entrance door. Left and right bays are lit by windows at ground, first and second floors.

Windows throughout are replacement timber sliding sashes with exposed sash boxes and rendered architraves. Ground and first floor windows are 8/8 panes, whilst second floor windows are 4/4 panes. All windows have rendered masonry cills. The entrance features a hardwood eight-panel door in a timber frame, with a decorative transom light and side lights incorporating timber panels below. Original fittings survive including a letter box, door bell and decorative wall-mounted light brackets. Rainwater goods are cast iron.

The rear elevation has been abutted by a series of modern lean-to and cat-slide extensions, including a new chimney, which are of no historical interest. The house is street-fronted with an enclosed yard to the rear, bounded by large roughcast walls and a single-storey office building.

Despite substantial internal alterations and changes to original fabric, the integrity of the terrace group is maintained through the retention of original multi-paned windows with exposed boxes and understated ornamentation. The terrace appears on the first edition Ordnance Survey map of 1834 and the fifth edition of 1932. These houses are believed to have been the original workers' cottages for employees of the Castle Upton estate and were rebuilt after almost total destruction by Royal Troops following the Battle of Antrim on 6 June 1798.