10 Murlough Road, Ballycastle, Co.Antrim, BT54 6RG

10 Murlough Road, Ballycastle, is a detached three-bay two-storey rendered house built around 1986, replacing an earlier Victorian farmhouse that was destroyed by fire. The current house faces east with pebbledash rendering, fibre cement roof tiles, and UPVC windows and guttering.

The site retains significant historical importance as the location of Murlough Farm, documented since the early 19th century. An early farmhouse appears on the first edition Ordnance Survey map of 1832. By Griffith's Valuation of 1859, the site was leased by the Earl of Antrim to John McCarry, establishing the beginning of over a century of occupation by the McCarry family. In 1889, the original dwelling was replaced with a substantial two-storey farmhouse whose rateable value increased to £5. The 1901 Census recorded Hugh McCarry, his wife and ten children at Murlough Farm, describing it as a second-class dwelling of 10 rooms with extensive outbuildings including a stable, two cow houses, a piggery and a barn. The third edition Ordnance Survey map of 1904 depicts the farm as a rectangular building with outbuildings to north and south. The McCarry family purchased the property outright from the Earl of Antrim by the First General Revaluation (1936-57). Hugh McCarry remained there until his death in 1943, after which the farm passed to his son Francis, and subsequently to Patrick McCarry. The late-Victorian farmhouse was listed in 1980 but was destroyed by fire in 1986 and subsequently delisted in 1998.

The only original structures remaining are a two-storey limewashed rubble outbuilding to the northwest with a natural slate roof and cement raised verges, and a single-storey rubble building to the east. The two-storey outbuilding features a centrally located vertically sheeted doorway to the first floor accessed by a rubble stone external stair without handrail. The ground floor has three windows with steel casements. The side gable elevation to the east shows unfinished rubble stone laid to courses with roughly dressed sandstone corner quoins, with a modern inserted sliding steel-faced door to the ground floor. The rear elevation to the north has a single timber casement to the first floor. The south gable elevation is blank. The outbuildings retain natural slate roofing with metal and timber casements.

The site also preserves the original entrance with a vehicular wrought-iron gate and matching pedestrian gate hung on circular rendered piers, and a rocky outcrop on the approach avenue.

The property is located within Murlough Bay, a publicly accessible coastal park designated as an Area of Special Scientific Interest, commanding extensive views over the ocean from approximately 200 metres above sea level.