22 Riverside, Antrim, BT41 4BH

This is an early to mid-19th century terrace house, likely built between 1840 and 1859, forming the southern end of a terrace of three houses in the Town Parks area of Antrim. The terrace first appeared on an Ordnance Survey map of 1857. The house is a two-storey, one-bay structure on the ground floor, but with two bays to the first floor. A single-storey, one-bay porch is set back to one side. The main entrance faces east.

The east elevation has a hipped roof covered in regular courses of Bangor blue slates, with a later chimney of red brickwork topped with two red pots. A cast iron gutter runs along the roofline. The walls are smooth cement rendered, lined and blocked with a slightly raised, vertical strip of rusticated quoins on the left-hand side, and a narrow, plain strip on the right. There are two rectangular, vertically hung, timber sliding sash windows on the first floor, each with a 3 over 6 glazing pattern and without horns. The ground floor has a single arched timber sliding sash window, vertically hung, with a 1 over 1 glazing pattern and without horns. The porch has a hipped roof, cast iron gutter, and walls rendered to match the main elevation, with a timber eaves board. The doorway to the porch is a modern rectangular timber panelled design.

The south elevation is similar in roof and wall construction to the east elevation, with a blank two-storey block, and the porch containing a rectangular, glazed and panelled timber doorway. The rear elevation has a two-storey main block with a single-storey projection cantilevered over the river. The main block’s roof is slated, with a PVC gutter and downpipe. It features two windows: one rectangular timber fixed light with a top-hung vent, and another semi-circular arched timber window containing leaded glazing. The single-storey projection on the right-hand end has a hipped slated roof and a single rectangular timber window.

The building stands at one end of the terrace, with its rear elevation tight against the river, except for a narrow passage to the rear and to the side.