The Promenade, 7 North Street, Ballycastle, Co Antrim, BT54 6BN

The Promenade is a three-storey house dating to the mid-19th century, likely a rebuilding of an earlier property, situated on North Street in Ballycastle. It is part of a terrace of buildings extending from Quay Road to Strandview Road, maintaining a consistent building line and offering views of the sea. The building exhibits good proportions and is constructed in a Georgian style, complemented by a ground floor shopfront.

The North Street façade is three bays wide, featuring a four-panelled door with a plain fanlight flanked by panelled pilasters, leading to flats. Adjacent is a shop entrance with a matching fanlight and pilasters, alongside a large shop window divided into four lights by mullions, each light further subdivided with slim glazing bars into four panes. A fascia runs the full length of the building, displaying painted lettering and decorative ice cream cones at each end. A plaster panel and plinth are present at the base. The upper floors feature twelve-pane sash windows repeated on both the first and second floors. A half-round gutter sits above a corbel course, and the roof is natural slate, with chimney stacks at each end.

The rear elevation of the main block is three-storeys wide with three windows on the second floor. A two-storey gabled rear return projects to the left. The main block's roof is covered in artificial slates, while pvc gutters and downpipes are visible. The walling is rendered with a wet-dash finish, and the windows are modern timber fixed lights with top-hung vents. The rear return is of similar materials, with concrete cills. A small lean-to boilerhouse stands on the east side of the rear return, featuring a modern metal flue. Two modern timber-boarded doors are located to the left of the windows.

A single-storey lean-to porch, built of similar materials, abuts the ground floor of the main block on the right side. The porch includes a modern timber-boarded door with a small glazed panel. The south gable of the rear return has one window on each storey, with a single-storey timber shed positioned close to the gable. A smooth rendered, lined, and blocked screen wall, containing a segmental arched opening, extends from the rear return.

The rear yard is concrete surfaced, bordered by a rendered screen wall on the east and a rubble stone and brick wall on the west. A derelict shell of a two-storey outbuilding or house occupies the rear end of the yard. The building is located within a conservation area and its listing includes the shopfront, the house itself, and the return elevation. The date of construction is estimated to be between 1860 and 1879.