Collin Road, Ballyclare, Co.Antrim, BT39 9JS

A detached multi-bay two-storey vernacular farm house built around 1800, located on the east side of Collin Road in the townland of Dunamoy. The house and associated outbuildings remain in their rural farm setting but are currently in poor repair, having suffered considerable neglect that has resulted in the loss of much historic detail.

The main house is rectangular in plan with a single-storey addition to the east and a small single-storey porch to the south. Stone steps provide access to the first floor. The pitched roof is covered in natural slate and features corbelled red brick chimneys with yellow brick diapering. The walls are built of random rubble with fieldstone quoins.

The principal elevation faces south and is divided into four bays. Bay one and three each contain a window at both ground and first floor levels. Bay two consists of an opening on each floor, with a vertically sheeted timber entrance door at ground floor abutted by a flat-roofed windbreak porch; stone steps at the left provide access to a first floor loading door above. Bay four contains two windows with red brick surround at ground floor and a single window at first floor. To the right is a square-headed vertically sheeted timber entrance door with transom light, flanked at left by a single window and at right by two windows at ground floor (the left sill is missing); four windows at first floor are now blocked. All windows are square-headed with timber frames, rubble voussoirs, and sandstone sills, though many are now blocked or deteriorated.

The west gable contains two square-headed openings at attic level (now blocked) and a small opening with brick surround at ground floor right. The north elevation contains, at left, a central square-headed vertically sheeted timber entrance door flanked by two windows with timber lintels and brick surrounds and a single blocked window; a single window opening at ground floor centre; and at right, a square-headed vertically sheeted timber entrance door surmounted by three window openings at first floor, flanked by a single blocked window at ground floor left. The east elevation is blank and abutted at ground floor by the addition.

The setting comprises a rural farm complex with outbuildings to the east and west. The site is bounded on all sides by rubble walling and mature planting. Access to the complex from the road is via an avenue through a wrought-iron gate supported by rubble piers, with further avenues and pairs of rubble piers to the east and south-east.

To the west stands a two-storey rubble outbuilding with its principal elevation facing east. It contains a central entrance opening flanked by window openings, with brick surrounds and a single opening at first floor; a corrugated metal south gable and a lean-to addition with catslide roof (now in ruins) abutting the west. A single-storey rubble outbuilding to the east is roofless, with a central entrance opening to its west elevation flanked by a square-headed window.

Documentary evidence shows the building on the first edition Ordnance Survey map of 1832. By the 1857 map it is shown with two projections on the north-east elevation, which no longer exist. The property is recorded in the 1836 Townland Valuation as a "house and office" occupied by John Sharp and valued at £9.8s.5d. Griffith's Valuation of 1859 records the occupier as John Allen under lessor Robert Walker Esquire, with the building valued at £8. Valuation Revisions for 1867 record Patrick McLelland as occupier, with Robert Walker as lessor.

While the complex retains much of its original character and demonstrates the traditional direct-entry plan common to vernacular dwellings, it has been significantly compromised by neglect and is not among the best examples of the type. It remains of local interest and contributes to the built heritage of the area.