10 Main Street, Cushendun, Co.Antrim

A two-storey, two-bay house of rectangular plan with pitched slate roof, built circa 1832-57. The building is white painted rough-cast rendered with a contrasting coloured plinth. It forms the northern end of a row of three similar houses (numbers 6, 8 and 10 Main Street), all constructed at the same period. The three houses are linked at their gable ends by white painted rendered low walls with vertically sheeted timber gates providing access to rear yards. The adjacent planned square of seven cottage-style two-storey houses was built later.

The principal north-east elevation faces the junction of Main Road and Bay Road, accessed via a tarmac footpath leading to a front entrance porch on the south-east side. The fenestration pattern is irregular, comprising a single 6/6 timber sliding sash window to the left of the ground floor, with a pair of 6/6 windows above at first floor. The entrance porch projects from the right side and contains a vertically sheeted timber door with metal furniture and a narrow multi-pane Georgian-style window to its north-east elevation, with a pitched slate roof. Small-pane Georgian timber sliding sash windows with horns and exposed box frames painted in contrasting colour express a cottage-style aesthetic. The pitched slate roof carries terracotta ridge tiles and a single white painted rendered chimney-stack at mid-ridge with circular black clay pots and stepped cornice. Stepped eaves feature half-round cast-iron guttering discharging to circular section downpipes.

The south-east side elevation is blank with white painted rough-cast rendered finish and a rendered chimney-stack. The south-west rear elevation overlooks a modest concrete and grassed yard enclosed to the north-west by a rough-cast rendered wall with timber fence above, and to the south-east by a high timber fence. The rear elevation is abutted by a single-storey rear return, with an irregular fenestration pattern: a paired timber sliding sash window to the right of the rear return at ground floor, and a single timber sliding sash window above at first floor, these not aligned. The rear return contains a vertically sheeted timber door opening onto the rear yard. The north-west elevation walling is of white painted rough-cast rendered finish with blank walls throughout.

The building sits at the end of the row within the heart of Cushendun village, north of the Glendun River, with panoramic coastal views to the north-east. It occupies a location within a Conservation Area and designated Area of Outstanding Natural Beauty, directly overlooking the North Sea.

Materials: Natural slate roof; cast-iron painted rainwater goods; white rendered walling; timber sliding sash and small-pane Georgian-style casement windows. The architect is unknown.