17 High Street, Cushendall, Co. Antrim, BT44 0ND

No. 17 High Street is a two-storey single-bay terraced house built circa 1884, located on the north-east side of High Street in Cushendall, which rises steeply from the main street. The house was constructed as one of a pair with No. 19 High Street, forming part of a short terrace of four buildings that line the slope.

The building is rectangular in plan, facing south-west. It has a pitched fibre cement roof with synthetic ridge tiles and a rendered chimneystack with terracotta pots set against the north-west party wall shared with No. 19. The external walls are finished in flint dash over cement render, with a smooth cement rendered plinth course. The front elevation has square-headed window openings with painted concrete sills containing replacement timber casement windows, and a square-headed door opening with a replacement vertically-sheeted timber door. The rear elevation features smooth cement rendered walling with replacement timber casement windows. Guttering is uPVC and the downpipe is steel. The north-west side is abutted by No. 19 High Street, and the south-east side by No. 15 High Street.

The house stands within a small paved front area enclosed by replacement steel railings mounted on a low rendered plinth wall, with a matching iron pedestrian gate. All original external fabric has been replaced with inappropriate materials, though the original window and door openings remain.

The building was first recorded in the Annual Revisions in 1884, when it was valued at £3 and leased by Daniel Jamison, a local rate collector. The 1911 Census records No. 17 as occupied by James Hamill, a general labourer, and described it as a second-class dwelling consisting of two inhabited rooms with a fowl house and shed as outbuildings. Ownership passed to John McNeill around 1956 when he purchased the property from the Turnly estate. By the Second General Revaluation (1956–72) the house was valued at £7.

The buildings along High Street were included in the Cushendall Conservation Area in 1975 and the building was listed in 1976, reflecting the street's special character as described in the 1972 Ulster Architectural Heritage Society guide, which noted the "very pleasing group" of nos 11–19 climbing the steepest part of the hill, their storeys "somewhat breathlessly arranged, part Georgian and part Regency glazed". Though the building holds historic interest as part of the original terrace at the centre of Cushendall and contributes to the conservation area composition, the extensive replacement of original historic fabric means it lacks sufficient original material to be considered of special interest.