Kilmore House, Kilmore, Waterfoot, Ballymena, Co.Antrim

Kilmore House is a detached, symmetrical three-bay two-storey house with attic, built around 1908. It is rendered and abutts the gabled north side elevation of an earlier four-bay two-storey rendered house built around 1830, which faces east with a two-storey rear return. The building is irregularly planned and sits on a sloping mature site on the east side of Glasmullen Road.

The later north block features a hipped natural slate roof with black clay ridge tiles and uPVC-clad flat-roofed dormers. Three tall rough-cast rendered chimneystacks with terracotta pots and terracotta capping are finished with classical stucco mouldings. Moulded cast-iron guttering is supported on an overhanging eaves cornice, which is itself supported on a series of modillions, with cast-iron downpipes. The walling is painted rough-cast cement render with rusticated render quoins, a moulded render plinth course, and continuous plain sill bands at both levels.

Window openings have camber heads with painted masonry sills. The windows are replacement timber sliding sash (mostly 4/1, 6/1 and 8/1 panes) with ogee horns; dormers have replacement multi-pane timber casement windows. The symmetrical three-bay front elevation contains nine openings across two storeys. A central entrance bay is flanked by full-height three-sided canted bay windows with lead-lined roofs, cornices between floors, and tripartite windows. The entrance features a central square-headed door opening with replacement double-leaf timber panelled doors, flanked by plain pilasters surmounted by large scrolled console brackets supporting an open-bed segmental pediment. Flanking the doorcase are slender sidelights with replacement 4/1 timber sliding sash windows, all framed by rusticated quoined pilasters with a cornice spanning the entire entrance. The door opens onto a later concrete paved platform. The stepped four-bay east side elevation has stucco dressings matching the front, with all windows being 8/1 timber sliding sash. The stepped three-bay west side elevation includes a single-storey lean-to structure to the re-entrant angle, detailed as per the front elevation. A large camber-headed stairlight to the right above the lean-to contains a tripartite fixed-pane timber window with leaded coloured glazing.

The earlier house to the south is four-bayed and two-storeyed with a pitched natural slate roof with black clay ridge tiles. Three rendered chimneystacks with octagonal clay pots are fitted. Cast-iron guttering on iron brackets to rendered eaves course and cast-iron downpipes complete the roofline. The walling is painted rough-cast render with painted masonry channel-rusticated quoins. Window openings have camber heads with painted masonry sills; the first-floor windows feature a continuous sill course. Replacement sliding timber sash windows are present throughout (4/8 to first floor, 8/4 to ground floor, and some single-pane to the rear and return) with ogee horns.

The four-bay two-storey front elevation (facing east) has an off-centre elliptical-headed door opening to the right. The original timber doorcase frames a replacement timber panelled door flanked by engaged Doric columns and slender sidelights with rusticated sill aprons, a stepped lintel cornice, and an elliptically glazed fanlight. The archivolt moulding rises from a pair of ribbed pilasters with simulated panelling to the reveals. The door opens onto an original stepped sandstone platform. The south side elevation has a single off-centre window opening at each level with overhanging eaves finished with a stepped bargeboard and sheeted eaves with brackets. The west rear elevation contains a two-bay two-storey return set at an angle to the centre and a shallow two-storey accretion to either side. The return has square-headed window openings; both accretions have camber-headed openings. All have painted masonry sills and replacement single-pane timber sliding sash windows throughout.

The building sits on an extensive mature sloping site to the east of Glasmullen Road with bitumac forecourts and driveways to the north and east, paved sports areas to the east, a parking area to the west and south enclosed by rendered walling and steel railings. A bitumac avenue runs along a stream, opening onto the road via decorative wrought-iron gates hung on rendered piers with matching curved walls and further piers.