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

13 Ballyeaston Village is a modestly scaled single-storey end-of-terrace house forming the right end of a group of three cottages built circa 1820, located on the north side of Ballyeaston Village in County Antrim. The house opens directly onto the sloping village street and contributes to the character of the village grouping, though it has been compromised by alteration and modernisation and is of a relatively common vernacular type of which better examples survive.

The building is rectangular in plan with a pitched natural slate roof fitted with clay ridge tiles. A yellow brick chimney with replacement pots rises from the left gable, and there is a replacement chimney to the party wall shared with the adjoining house. Two replacement roof-lights have been installed to the rear pitch.

The walling is roughcast over a contrasting smooth banded plinth, with smooth rendered banding to the corner and party wall and a horizontal band at mid-level to the windows. The principal south-facing elevation contains a central replacement square-headed timber entrance door with glazed panels set within a smooth rendered architrave, with a window to either side. Windows throughout are replacement square-headed timber casements mimicking 2/2 sliding sashes, set within smooth architraves with painted masonry sills. The west gable is blank and finished with timber bargeboards. The north elevation contains a single window to the right. The east elevation is abutted by No. 11 Ballyeaston Village.

The house is directly accessed from the street to the south, with lawn to the rear and a driveway to the west bounded to the road by a timber fence. Rainwater goods are cast-iron.

Historical records show that the first edition Ordnance Survey map of 1834 depicts a group of buildings aligned as the current terrace on the right side of the road. Griffiths Valuation of 1859 records the site as land occupied by Samuel Crawford under John Owens, Esq. as lessor, though a hand-drawn map in the fieldbook shows the cottages divided into three separate buildings. The first property was a house and small garden valued at £1 10s, occupied by Isabella Houston with John Graham as lessor. The second was a house valued at 15 shillings occupied by Margaret Wilson under John Allen as lessor. The third property was a house and office valued at £1 and occupied by John Allen.