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

An attached multi-bay two-storey end terrace built around 1820, located on an elevated site to the north side of Ballyeaston Village. The house forms part of a vernacular grouping that contributes to the character of the village, though it has been compromised by alteration and modernisation and represents a relatively common type of which better examples exist.

The building is rectangular on plan with a single-storey flat-roof extension to the rear. The pitched tiled roof is finished with clay ridge tiles and three yellow brick chimneys with replacement pots. Rainwater goods are half-round uPVC. The walls are roughcast over a smooth banded plinth. Windows are replacement square-headed four-pane timber casements mimicking sliding sashes, with masonry cills.

The principal elevation faces south and contains a replacement entrance door offset to the right. The door is square-headed timber with fifteen glazed panels, surmounted by a slated lean-to canopy and accessed by a tiled step. To the right of the door are two windows, with three windows to the left; the first floor contains five windows. The west gable is abutted by No. 11 Ballyeaston Village. The rear elevation is multi-bay with windows of various sizes throughout: two windows to the left at ground floor level, with a single-storey extension abutting to the right, and two windows to the first floor above the extension. The extension has two windows to its north elevation and an entrance door to the east. The east gable is blank.

The house is directly accessed from the street to the south, with a concrete yard to the rear enclosed by a series of pitched single and two-storey outbuildings with pitched roofs.

Historical records show that the site appears on the first edition Ordnance Survey map of 1834 as part of a group of buildings aligned as the current group. Griffiths Valuation of 1859 records the land as occupied by Samuel Crawford with John Owens, Esq. as the immediate lessor. A hand-drawn map in the fieldbook shows a building identified as the cottages, divided and marked as three separate buildings: a house and small garden valued at £1 10 shillings occupied by Isabella Houston with John Graham as lessor; a house valued at 15 shillings occupied by Margaret Wilson with John Allen (son) as lessor; and a house and office valued at £1 occupied by John Allen (son).