Shangarry, 45 Quay Road, Ballycastle, Co Antrim, BT54 6BJ

Shangarry is a detached late Victorian house in classical style, built in 1892 for Captain Hutchinson, a retired military officer. It stands on Quay Road in Ballycastle within a mature garden.

The house is two storeys and five bays wide, with a two storey back return. The northwest-facing elevation to Quay Road features a central wide four-panelled single door with plain fanlight, recessed within a pedimented neo-classical surround with pilasters, frieze and cornice. Four steps rise to the front door. On either side are pairs of shallow segmented arched double-hung sliding sash windows with two panes, moulded architraves and moulded corbels under the sills. The first floor has a similar window arrangement with a central window over the entrance door.

The walls are smooth rendered and painted with plaster plinth and quoin bands. Under the eaves runs a dentil corbel course with a half-round metal gutter. The roof is hipped with natural slate and has two yellow brick chimney stacks close together on the ridge, each with a corbel plinth and decorative cap. Three similar windows to the ground floor adorn the gables, with matching windows at first floor level.

A wall extends at right angles from the northeast gable, featuring a segmental arched gateway. The back return is in line with the northeast gable, with ground floor 3 steps lower than the main house floor and lower ceiling heights, so that the return's ridge sits below the eaves corbelling.

The house is set back from Quay Road's footwalk, with a low boundary wall and gate piers (but no gates or railings, these having been removed after the commencement of World War II). A row of mature trees stands behind the front boundary wall. The rear garden is bounded by a fine high handmade red brick wall separating it from the adjoining primary school, and an equally high rear wall of similar brick banded with deep courses of rubble basalt.

This is a competent example of late 19th-century middle-sized domestic building with good internal woodwork and plasterwork, retaining much of its original fittings. The external detailing is similar to other houses in Ballycastle, including those at 75, 77, 79 and 64 Ann Street, all built by the builder Dallat around the end of the 19th century. Dallat left his properties at 75 and 77 to his grand nieces, who continue to live there. The building is indicated on the 1904 Ordnance Survey map. The house is of local historical interest as builder Dallat was a member of a well-known Ballycastle family.