34 Glasgort Road, Coleraine, Co. Londonderry, BT51

Detached single-storey red brick lobby-entry thatched dwelling, built c.1800, with later byre to the north gable. Rectangular on plan facing east and currently unoccupied and derelict. Located at the end of a long lane together with a further pair of derelict detached former dwellings (HB03/03/045A), a brick shooting range (HB03/03/045B) and a pair of detached dwellings built c.1980. Pitched corrugated iron roof over original thatch roof with cement verges and red brick chimneystacks to both gable ends. Thatch roof exposed to the interior comprising rough-hewn purlins embedded in gable walls supporting unhewn timber rafters and ridge board lined with earthen sods and covered in straw thatch. Lime-wash over Agivey red brick walling laid in Flemish bond (cement render to the south gable only). Square-headed window openings with red brick flat arches, no sills and 2/2 timber sash windows with horns and exposed sash boxes. Symmetrical front elevation has a central square-headed door opening with a window opening to the south. The north end of the elevation has collapsed. South gable is blank and surmounted by a brick chimneystack. Rear elevation has a pair of diminutive square-headed window openings with fixed timber windows. North gable is abutted by a red brick byre having a corrugated asbestos roof. Setting: Forming part of a collection of nineteenth-century structures on a site to the west of Glasgort Road including a red brick firing range wall (HB03/03/045B), a pair of derelict former dwellings (HB03/03/045A) and a pair of mid to late twentieth-century dwellings. Roof Corrugated iron over thatch RWG None Walling Agivey red brick Windows Timber sash and fixed-pane timber casement