Turnarobert House, 185 Glenshesk Road, Armoy, Ballymoney, County Antrim, BT53 8RJ

Turnarobert House is a substantial two-storey gabled gentleman farmer's house dating from around 1795, situated a short distance east of Armoy village and accessed by a curving drive from Glenshesk Road. The roof was rebuilt with an overhang around 1910, and the front elevation was rendered with dry dash circa the 1970s.

The symmetrical front elevation faces east. At the centre of the ground floor is the main entrance, comprising a panelled timber door with a semicircular fanlight featuring spider's web tracery, both encased in a moulded architrave and surrounded by plain cement render. To the left of the entrance are two windows with timber sash frames containing Georgian panes (six over six), with two identical windows to the right and five more at first floor level. The south gable has a window on its ground floor facing front. The attic level, close to the eaves, contains two small windows with modern timber frames. The north gable is almost identical to the south gable, but lacks the ground floor window.

A large two-storey gabled return projects from the left of centre on the rear elevation. On its north face, a partly glazed timber door stands to the left on the ground floor, with a broad window (possibly enlarged) to its right, featuring a PVCu frame. Two smaller windows occupy the first floor. The south face of the return has a large, undoubtedly enlarged window on the ground floor and two smaller windows above. The west-facing gable of the return has no openings. A small flat-roofed porch projection with a doorway to its south face stands on the ground floor to the left. The rear façade of the main section has a window on the ground floor to the left, with two smaller windows to the right of the return. At first floor level there is a narrow window to the left and a much larger, probably enlarged window to the right. Windows to the return and rear façade all have PVCu frames.

The front elevation and north and south gables are finished in dry dash render from around the 1970s with a smooth cement render base course. The rear façade and return are finished in unpainted roughcast. The main roof is slated with gable overhang, plain bargeboards, boxed-in eaves and simple timber brackets. Two cream brick replacement chimneysstacks, probably dating from circa 1910, rise from the gables. The return roof is also slated, with a brick chimneystack to its west-facing gable. Cast-iron rainwater goods are present throughout.

To the rear (west) lies a large concrete-covered farmyard surrounded mainly by two to one and a half-storey rubble-built gabled outbuildings and a large open-fronted hay shed. A relatively small free-standing rubble-built gabled building of one and a half storeys, now used as a shed, stands roughly in the middle of the yard. The present owner notes this building once had a fireplace and believes it is a remnant of an earlier 17th century house that occupied the site before the present house was constructed in the late 18th century. A large concrete block lean-to extension has been added to its west gable.