892 Antrim Road, Templepatrick, Co. Antrim, BT39 0AH

892 Antrim Road is one of a terrace of six late eighteenth century two-storey houses in the village of Templepatrick, built around 1820. Built as end-of-terrace, it faces north onto the Antrim Road and has been much altered but retains architectural and historical significance as part of a defining group within the village.

The house is roughly rectangular in plan with a single storey return to the south and a lean-to porch to the re-entrant angle. It is constructed of roughcast render over smooth rendered plinth with corner banding, set on a three-bay two-storey elevation. The pitched roof is covered in natural slate with a replacement red brick chimney to the west gable; the south pitch features timber fascia and Velux windows. Rainwater goods are cast metal.

Windows throughout are replacement double-glazed sliding sash units with smooth rendered chamfered surrounds. The asymmetrical north elevation is notable for two timber vertically sheeted false doors with transom lights above to the two central bays, flanked by a replacement tripartite sliding sash window to the west and a replacement 6/6 sliding sash window to the east. The first floor holds two replacement timber double-glazed tripartite sliding sash windows. The rear elevation has two replacement 6/6 sliding sash windows to the ground floor on the west side and three replacement 6/6 casement windows to the first floor. A single-storey pitched slated return to the east side abuts the adjoining terrace house. A slated lean-to extension to the west of the rear elevation contains a modern timber sheeted door to the west side with flanking full-height glazed panels that continue through the south elevation. The west gable elevation is blank.

Despite extensive internal alterations and changes to original fabric, the terrace maintains group integrity through the retention of original multi-paned windows with exposed boxes and understated ornamentation such as the rendered plinth and architraves. The terrace represents a relatively unusual example of urban vernacular, possibly even estate architecture.

Historically, the terrace was rebuilt after almost total destruction by Royal Troops following the Battle of Antrim on 6 June 1798. The houses are believed to be original workers' cottages housing employees of the Castle Upton estate. The terrace appears on the first edition Ordnance Survey map of 1834 and again on the fifth edition map of 1932. The building is now occupied by offices, having been internally connected to adjoining properties at some period.