2 Steeple Road, Antrim, Co Antrim BT41 1AF

A two-storey gabled house with rendered walls and slated roof, complemented by a lower gable-roofed addition at one end. The main entrance faces south east.

The entrance elevation of the main house is five windows wide. The roof is laid with Bangor blue slates in regular courses and fitted with black ridge tiles. Three chimneys are positioned—one on each gable and one at an intermediate point on the ridge. The gable chimneys are smooth cement rendered with projecting rendered brick cornices, while the central chimney is rendered with a wet dash of crushed stones and has a projecting concrete coping. The central chimney carries four modern pots, with one on the left chimney and two on the right.

Cast iron guttering, now overgrown with creeper, runs around the building with cast iron downpipes supported by trefoil iron brackets. The walls are finished in roughcast with a light sprinkling of small crushed black stones.

Windows throughout are rectangular timber sliding sashes, vertically hung with 2 over 2 pane divisions and horizontal divisions, featuring horns and set in exposed sash boxes. Surrounds are smooth rendered and painted, flush-set with projecting stone cills. The main entrance is a rectangular timber 4-panel door with an ornamental bronze knocker and handle, set in a moulded wooden surround and topped with a rectangular fanlight containing arcaded metal glazing bars.

The left-hand gable is rendered as the front elevation, though much has been re-rendered with a wet dash of crushed stones. It contains two windows, one per floor, with sashed 2 over 2 panes featuring vertical pane divisions and plain rendered reveals without surrounds.

The rear elevation features a roof slated as the front with one small original 2-pane rooflight near the right-hand end. A symmetrical arrangement of windows adorns the rear wall of the main block: two windows on each side of a stair window, with one window per floor. All are sashed windows of the same type as the entrance front, with smooth rendered and painted reveals except the stair window, which has margin lights. Cast iron guttering and downpipes serve both the main block and the rear return block, with PVC guttering to the rear return and plastic barrel discharge points for those downpipes.

A rear return projects from the main block, with its own rear wall containing a rectangular ledged timber door with an old latch set in plain reveals. Its side wall facing away from the gable has two windows, one per floor, matching those on the gable end. One corner of the rear return extends upward to form a flat-topped base for a water tank, with a corrugated roof and PVC gutter.

The lower additional block at one end has a rear wall in continuous plane with the main block and similar roughcast walling, with some later dry dash around window reveals. The rear wall of the additional lower block contains three rectangular doorways: a ledged timber door to the upper level and two ground floor openings. The ground floor has a ledged timber door to the left of a wider opening containing a pair of double doors, both ledged and set in plain reveals with a timber lintel. The upper level has a damaged half-door type, ledged, set in plain reveals. A rendered screen wall of single storey height extends to the left of the additional block, containing a ledged timber door leading to the front garden area. The gables of both the main block and lower block above the additional block are smooth cement rendered.

Outbuildings occupy a tarmac yard in poor condition behind the main house, arranged around three sides. A large gabled and slated barn with rendered walls contains three rectangular openings along one side, with vertical timber boarding to the upper part of one gable and red brick to the other. It is fitted with PVC guttering and has a later steel-framed greenhouse added to one gable. Its rear wall is of brick with small ventilating openings and a rectangular ledged timber door.

A lower gabled and slated outbuilding has rendered walls, two rectangular ledged timber doors, PVC guttering and cast iron downpipe, and a red brick gable.

A single storey shed closes the end of the yard with a slated roof, rendered walls, rectangular timber small-pane fixed light windows, a ledged timber door, and horizontal boarding.

A rendered wall with a humped top extends from the large outbuilding, terminating in a pair of circular piers rendered with wet dash and topped with conical caps. These piers are mounted with a wide flat iron gate featuring scrolled finials. The lower outbuilding's rear wall is of red brick with a similar ledged timber door. The smallest outbuilding has red brick and basalt rubble gables with a basalt rubble rear wall and slated roof.

The building stands facing the main road, set back slightly with a small front garden. The front boundary is formed by a hedge with a small pedestrian gateway opposite the main entrance. A concrete path descends two steps from pavement level to the house. The small gateway features short square stone piers with chamfered corners and ogee-shaped caps, all painted white, with small ironwork gates. The front hedge terminates at each end in a pair of circular gate piers of rendered rubble with conical caps. The left gateway contains an original flat iron gate; the piers to the right are linked by a rendered wall. A long low basalt rubble wall extends to the right, with an overgrown side garden behind it. A short rendered wall with basalt rock copings extends to the left, abutting the roughly coursed basalt rubble boundary wall of the adjacent property. A rendered wall with rounded rendered coping projects from the left-hand end of the house, linking with the vehicular gateway.