52 Glen Road, Glenariff, Co.Antrim, BT44 0RF

52 Glen Road is a detached two-storey farmhouse in the townland of Tamlaght, Glenariff, County Antrim, built between 1832 and 1857. The house does not appear on the first edition Ordnance Survey map of 1832 but is recorded on the second edition map of 1857, depicted as a simple rectangular-shaped structure.

The building is two bays on plan, facing northwest, with a pitched natural slate roof with black clay ridge tiles. Cement coping runs along both gable ends. Two cement-rendered chimneystacks with cast-iron guttering and plastic downpipes serve the structure. The walling is rendered with ruled-and-lined finish and painted rusticated rendered quoins. Window openings are square-headed with smooth rendered surrounds, painted masonry sills, and single-pane timber sliding sash windows. The northwest front elevation features a central square-headed door opening with rendered surround and reeded keystone, opening onto an enclosed front area, flanked by 1/1 timber sliding sash windows set within smooth rendered surrounds. The northeast gabled side elevation is blind. The southwest gabled side elevation is blind with a collapsed accretion. The rear elevation is obscured by vegetation and access was not possible at survey.

The site sits on the east side of Glen Road, enclosed by a ruled-and-lined rendered boundary wall with a replacement gate hung on rendered piers and a further vehicular entrance to the south with original iron gates.

According to Griffith's Valuation of circa 1859, the farmhouse was valued at 15 shillings and leased by Edmund Cuppage, a local landowner, to Arthur Harvey, who occupied it until circa 1871. The property then passed to Patrick Delargy, whose family remained there until at least the 1970s. The neighbouring No. 54 Glen Road was also occupied by the Delargy family from the 1850s. By 1873 the farmhouse had passed to John Delargy. The 1901 Census of Ireland recorded John Delargy residing there with his wife and five children, describing it as a second-class slated dwelling comprising two inhabited rooms with a cow house, piggery, and barn as sole outbuildings located to the rear. The third edition Ordnance Survey map of 1903 noted no change to the building layout since the mid-19th century; the outbuildings currently located across the road were first depicted on the fourth edition Ordnance Survey map of 1921. John Delargy occupied the property until his death in 1918, when his son Alexander took possession. Alexander subsequently acquired the neighbouring property circa 1923 and purchased No. 52 outright from the Cuppage estate. The First General Revaluation of Property in Northern Ireland (1936-57) increased the valuation to £5. Alexander Delargy remained at the site until at least the end of the Second General Revaluation (1956-72), when the combined rateable value of the farmhouse and its outbuildings was £24 and 15 shillings. At the time of the Second Survey, the farmhouse was recorded as vacant and in a state of disrepair.