8 Fairhill Street, Ballycastle, Co Antrim, BT54 6AY

This is a well-preserved and renovated house dating from around 1840. It exhibits Georgian proportions, though its appearance has been altered by the use of asbestos slates and the replacement of some original small Georgian window panes.

The house is a three-bay wide, two-and-a-half-story detached dwelling with a single-story return at the rear. The front elevation, facing Fairhill Street, has a central flat-roofed projecting porch with an entrance door set within a flanking wall, above which is a fanlight. There are double-hung sliding sash windows with two panes on the front wall of the porch, and single windows on either side. At the first floor, three similar windows are centered above the elements below. The porch features an unusual double cornice, seemingly forming a low parapet. A half-round gutter is fixed to the fascia board with a slight overhang. The roof is covered in asbestos slates, with three redbrick chimneystacks, plain ridge tiles, and a single Velux-type rooflight near the ridge. The gables are windowless, except for a small vertical window beneath the bargeboard, providing light to the attic, and another window offering daylight to the kitchen. The windows at the rear are similar to those on the front, but the central windows are at landing level, with one at the attic landing and of reduced height. A lean-to addition at the rear return occupies one bay, featuring modern windows and a rear door. The exterior walls are roughcast rendered and painted white.

To the north side of the house is a two-story outhouse with a gabled hoist at eaves level, finished to match the main house. A large shed with curved Belfast roof trusses is located at the rear of the garden, near the Tow viaduct. The house is set back a short distance from the footpath on Fairhill Street, and is enclosed by a roughcast boundary wall with a field gate. To the south is the River Tow and the site of a former sawmill.

The house was constructed around 1840. The original owner was involved in a sawmill, timber, and coal business, and also owned properties at 8/9 The Diamond. No remains of the sawmill are evident on the site. The property sits within a conservation area.