The Grange, 80 Belfast Road, Antrim, BT41 1PQ, Co Antrim

The Grange is a two-storey roughcast house of asymmetrical plan built in the Arts and Crafts style. The main entrance faces east in a projecting two-storey entrance bay.

The east elevation is two-storey and comprises a two-storey hipped block with a gabled two-storey entrance bay projecting from it. To the left-hand extremity extends the side of an open verandah, and to the right extends the gateway to a single-storey coach yard. The roofs are covered in red tiles with overhanging eaves on exposed rafter ends. The chimneys are rendered to match the main house, rectangular and clustered, with plain projecting cornices and original tall red pots. The walls are finished in roughcast render, wet dashed and painted white. Black painted half-timbering appears on the upper storey of the entrance bay and the upper floor of the end bay to the right. The timberwork is wooden pegged, with three shaped timber brackets supporting the timberwork over the main entrance. A battered profile appears on the ground floor wall to the right of the entrance bay, revealed where the end bay steps back.

The main entrance is an off-centre semi-elliptical archway with a recessed porch containing an original rectangular timber glazed and panelled door painted white, accompanied by glazed and panelled sidelights and an arched fanlight with radial and looped glazing bars. The recessed porchway is floored with red brickwork laid in a herringbone pattern and features a red tiled skirting. The brickwork step has a bow front, with two red tinted bowed concrete steps leading up to it. The first floor windows are rectangular timber small-paned casements and larger single pane casements. The ground floor windows are currently boarded up. Moulded timber drips sit over the windows. Cast iron gutters painted black are fitted with cast iron downpipes painted white with moulded curving hoppers.

To each side of the entrance bay are short angled returns at ground floor level of the main block, rising to cill level with narrow windows above topped by small red tiled roofs. The first floor windows immediately to the left and right of the entrance bay break up through the eaves line with dormer roofs swept over them. To the right of the right-hand end bay, the ground floor wall continues as a screen wall to the yard, containing a gateway formed by two square piers with overhanging caps and ramped copings, all roughcast. At the right-hand extremity of the gateway stands the end bay of the coach house with battered buttresses to each side, a hipped roof tiled to match the main house with deep overhang to the eaves, and one small-paned window. At the left-hand extremity of the east elevation is the open verandah, with a plinth wall extending to the left, roughcast with ramped coping. Black painted timberwork supports a hipped tiled roof with cast iron gutter and downpipe.

The south elevation comprises a two-storey semi-circular bay to the left of a recessed single-storey verandah, with the main roof swept down over it. The main roof is surmounted by a broad tripartite chimney. The bay to the left is roughcast at ground floor level with half-timbering to the first floor. A gabled half-timbered roof oversails the curved bay, supported on angled timber struts. The windows are rectangular timber, canted around the bay with continuous semi-circular timber cills and heads. Moulded black painted timber boxes containing roller sun awnings are fitted over each ground floor window, with box fronts fixed by angled iron bar struts. The verandah to the right is supported at the front by a pair of large solid wooden posts painted black on roughcast plinth walls, with curved brackets to the timber beam above. Affixed to the front of the beam is a full width sun awning of similar form to the previous examples. The verandah is floored in the same manner as the open entrance porch on the east elevation, with tinted render to the front edge of the brickwork rather than an exposed brickwork step; this appears to be a later repair to original brickwork which crumbled. The verandah ceiling has exposed black painted timber beams with whitened panels between. To the rear of the verandah is a rectangular glazed and panelled door or French window with glazed and panelled sidelights.

The west elevation is two-storey with an attic storey. The roofs are hipped and gabled, tiled as previously described. Two first floor windows break up through the eaves line to form wall-head dormers as on the entrance front, with a full dormer in the main roof above. The full dormer has small-paned casements with a swept tiled roof over and what appears to be lead clad cheeks. Cast iron guttering is fitted to the full dormer and main roof, with cast iron downpipes and soil pipes. At the left-hand extremity of the main two-storey block of the house is a rectangular timber glazed and panelled door flanked by a small rectangular window to each side.

Extending to the left is a lower coach house and outbuildings with red tiled roofs featuring overhanging eaves on deep projecting beams with boarded soffits. Timber boxed eaves appear at the corner of the outbuildings with roughcast soffit. A low roughcast chimney sits in the roof. An original flush iron rooflight is present, along with cast iron rainwater goods. Projecting to the west from the north end of the coachyard outbuildings is a later gabled additional block of less substantial quality than the main complex, with roughcast walls, red asbestos tiles to the roof, and cast iron gutters. A later wooden rooflight in poor repair is present.

The north elevation of the outbuildings features roughcast walls with a projecting buttress at the left-hand extremity and a rectangular ledged timber door at the right-hand corner. A pair of glazed rectangular ledged timber doors at high level provide access to the loft, which has an original iron flush rooflight. The later additional block extends to the right-hand side. The north elevation of the main block of the house has the tiled roof sweeping down low over a tall ground floor. A hipped dormer in the upper portion of the roof has a tiled roof and cheeks with 3-light small-paned timber casements to the front. In the lower portion of the roof below is a modern flush rooflight (the only modernisation evident on the exterior of the building). The ground storey is roughcast as previously described. Cast iron gutters and downpipes are fitted. A rectangular opening to the right-hand side of the wall, with roughcast reveals and black timber beam over, leads into a flat ceilinged recess.

The recess is surfaced in concrete with walls smooth rendered and painted white with black painted plinth. The ceiling is smooth plastered and painted white. Five ledged timber doors give access to a coal house to the left, the main body of the house straight ahead, a generator room followed by a toilet both to the right, and a wood store lying to the north of the main wall of the house.

The yard is surfaced in concrete with roughcast walls. The block to the west side is single storey and roughcast with a red tiled roof featuring overhanging eaves on deep timber beams. A wide rectangular opening contains a large rectangular ledged and braced horizontally sliding door on overhead wheels and runner which extend to the left over a segmental arched hatch opening with timber surround containing an arched timber sheeted bottom-hung door. To the right is a rectangular ledged timber door set in a timber frame leading into an outbuilding. This block returns forward to form the north side of the yard and contains a small rectangular window to the left of a wide rectangular timber ledged and braced door which leads to a pair of stables.

The building stands well back from the main road within what used to be its own grounds but which are now being developed for housing, leaving a smaller garden than formerly. The house is now reached by a common driveway marked at the main road by a pair of new gate piers which have replaced the original gateway. The driveway continues past the main entrance and around to the north side as an extensive hard standing. Beyond this on all sides is a garden comprised of lawns with mature trees and shrubs. Standing to the west of the outbuildings is a now derelict greenhouse, with utilitarian sheds of no architectural interest further to the north-west. The boundary to the east is marked by wooden fencing and the boundary to the north marked partly by wire fencing. Other boundaries are currently not defined on site due to building works. The overall site, of this house and the adjacent new houses being built, is bounded on the south along the main road to each side of the gateway by a hedge with mature trees behind it.