116 Tromra Road, Mullarts, Cushendun, Co.Antrim

Detached two-storey four-bay farmhouse and shop located in the townland of Gortaghragan between Cushendall and Cushendun, built circa 1830s. The building is rectangular on plan with its principal elevation facing south-east, set back from the north side of Tromra Road.

The principal south-east elevation features smooth rendered painted finish. A two-storey shop occupies the left side with a flat corrugated metal roof. All window openings are square-headed on painted masonry sills with a painted plaster band to the reveals. The bays on the ground floor align with window bays above. Windows throughout are exposed box 2/2 timber sliding sash to ground and first floors. The shopfront to the left contains bi-folding timber doors with tall Victorian-style glazed panels above a raised-and-fielded panel, with a narrow plain fanlight above and two glazed panels to the right side bearing remnants of shop signage. A segmental-headed door recess within a wind break porch with pitched slate roof contains a replacement painted square-headed four-panel timber door with three small glazed panels to the top section, opening onto a concrete step up from ground level.

The south-west elevation shows two storeys with a two-storey store and gable to the main house above. Walls are smooth render, unpainted to the store and painted to the house gable. A small attic-level square-headed window opening to the left of the chimney is now missing its window.

The north-west rear elevation features smooth rendered painted finish with a two-storey return built at half-landing level, having a pitched slate roof and large chimney stack to the apex with single black pot. The main house contains a single square-headed window at ground and first-floor levels on painted masonry sills, with the bay above not aligned with the bay below. A small 4/2 exposed box timber sliding sash occupies the ground floor, with a replacement timber casement to the first floor.

The north-east elevation is smooth rendered painted finish with a two-storey return built at half-landing level, featuring a pitched slate roof and large chimney stack to the gable. The main house gable contains a single square-headed window with 2/2 timber sliding sash at first-floor level to the left of the chimney. The rear return has single square-headed windows at ground and first-floor half-landing levels on painted masonry sills, with the bay above aligned with the bay below. A small 1/3 modified exposed box timber sliding sash serves the ground floor, with a larger 2/2 exposed box timber sliding sash to the first floor.

The pitched roof is natural slate with clay ridge tiles. Three rendered chimney stacks with circular black pots rise through the roof. Half-round replacement aluminium guttering is fixed to painted timber fascia, terminating to a circular aluminium downpipe to the left side of the front elevation.

To the rear, accessed through wrought iron gates to the left, stands a collection of outbuildings. A large two-storey six-bay piggery to the north-west features smooth render walls and a corrugated metal pitched roof. It contains a number of single and double timber sheeted doors at ground level to the north-east, with square-headed window openings to both ground and first floors containing mostly 1/1 timber sliding sash windows. Additional outbuildings to the rear have smooth rendered masonry walls with pitched asbestos-clad roofing, metal windows and a corrugated metal sliding door to the south-east.

The house is set within its own grounds as a detached Georgian-style building, positioned to the east of the former Cushendall Presbyterian Meeting House and its two-storey manse.