Boathouse, The Harbour, Harbour Road, Ballintoy, Ballycastle, Co Antrim BT54

This single-storey / single-bay boat house is aligned NW-SE with its front gable to the sea. It has a pitched replacement artificial slate roof with dressed sandstone verges but no rainwater goods. A modern metal flue projects from the NE pitch. The walls are of quarried limestone rubble brought to courses and have dressed sandstone quoins. Patress plates tie the front eaves of the side walls together. Although the walls are horizontally bedded, they sit on limestone rubble foundations which rise up the slope. Both side walls have central window openings, each with a voussoired sandstone head of segmental profile, brick jambs, and sandstone cill. The opes are now fitted with modern timber shutters, with casement windows behind. The opes originally had shutters as well, but with metal security bars to the front and no glazing behind. The NW gable has a large replacement double-leaf t&g door set in a wide segmental-headed opening trimmed with sandstone and with a single course of brick above the head. Behind them is a modern double-leaf, semi-glazed timber door with sidelights. Old photographs show a slipway from the doorway of the boat house to the water's edge but it was removed in the late 1970s to make way for a concrete landing stage (described in HB/05/10/018A). The water is now reached by two short flights of concrete steps. Of the original slipway, only a line of dressed stone flags survives along the cill of the doorway. The SE gable of the building is cut into the steep slope and has a brick-trimmed door at its right-hand end. Setting: The boat house is situated at the NE end of the inner harbour (HB05/10/018A) and is approached down a later 1900s track from the road. It was originally accessed from further up the road via a steep flight of stone steps down to its back door. This stairway is shown on the 1905 OS map but have long since collapsed, with only vestiges surviving at its top end. Roof: Artificial slate. RWG: None. Walls: Exposed random rubble. Windows: Shuttered casements. Doors: Painted timber.