Dwelling house on unnamed access lane to No 28, Ballinlea Road, Maghernahare, Ballycastle, BT54 6NL

An asymmetrical one-and-a-half storey three-bay vernacular dwelling, built c.1850, located on the south side of an unnamed road running east from Ballinlea Road, Ballycastle. Rectangular plan, with gable to the road and complex of outbuildings to rear. Pitched natural slate roof with angled ridge tiles and rendered brick chimneystacks to gables and party wall between bays. Gutters are missing but some drive-in brackets remain over corbelled eaves; cast-iron downpipe and hopper to south gable. Walling is lime rendered over rubble stone throughout, limewashed to all elevations except south gable. Windows are generally exposed box 6/6 timber sliding sashes with horns, set in plain reveals on sandstone cills (except where otherwise stated). Principal elevation faces east and has five equally spaced openings; second opening from left is the principal entrance, comprising a painted timber door of five raised panels (lower panels covered with metal sheeting); door furniture replaced; stone threshhold. South gable is abutted by a rubble stone garden wall at extreme right, and a later lean-to outbuilding. Replacement casement windows throughout. Rear elevation has irregularly spaced and sized openings; two windows to ground floor and one to first floor (all fixed pane replacements). The rear entrance is located to right of centre, comprising a timber sheeted door recessed within a small porch; footings of a former projecting porch addition remain on the ground surface. North gable has two windows to upper storey; the former ground floor window has been partially infilled and limewashed with a metal-framed casement added to the upper part. Setting: Rural setting, set with north gable to the road, and a complex of outbuildings to rear, in informal courtyard plan. The north outbuilding also bounds the road. There is a small garden to the front of the house, enclosed by a limewashed rubble stone wall; accessed by a wrought-iron gate on circular piers, both wall and piers are finished with soldier coping. Outbuildings are limewashed (except south elevations) and are single storey with the exception of that to south-east corner, which is lofted. Variety of roof coverings, including fibre cement tiles, natural slate and tin. From sout-east, in a clockwise direction is: pig house, byre, cart house, stables and piggeries, barn. Doors and loft openings are painted timber sheeted, and there are also metal casement windows. Yard has remains of cobbles and a partially canted corner to the northern outbuilding at the yard entrance. Roof: Slate Walling: Limewashed Windows: Timber RWG: Cast-iron (partial)