1 Old Coastguard Cottages, Portballintrae, Bushmills, Co. Antrim, BT57 8RF

End-of-terrace two-storey two-bay rendered coastguard cottage, built 1874 as one of a terrace of three with square watch tower to north. Located to the east side of the bay in Portballintrae. Rectangular plan with single-storey slated enclosed verandah to front and two-storey projection to rear. Hipped natural slate roof with blue/black angled tiles to hips and ridges; hipped slate roof to rear projection. Rendered chimneystack with sandstone cap; timber bargeboards to gables. Plastic rainwater goods on overhanging eaves with exposed rafter tails; cast-iron hopper to rear. Walling is painted roughcast render. Windows are 1/1 timber-framed sash with horns; segmental-headed to first floor, square-headed to ground floor (unless otherwise stated), all in slightly projecting smooth rendered reveals with flush chamfered painted sills; those to rear projection in moulded architraves with painted sills; tripartite timber casement windows to verandah; gabled oriel window on corbels to southwest. The principal elevation faces northwest and is almost symmetrically arranged, with two windows at first floor over full-width lean-to verandah, having panelled-and-glazed timber door to left of centre accessed by a single red sandstone step; shallow timber-lined recess to right cheek containing window at upper half. The northeast elevation is abutted by adjoining building; HB03/05/005B. The southeast (entrance) elevation has two-storey projection to centre; flanked at ground floor by a window to left and right bays; square-headed window at first floor of right bay. Projection has two windows to first floor over two diminutive 1/1 windows and three-panelled glazed timber door at right. The southwest elevation has gabled box oriel window rising above eaves line at first floor right. Segmental-headed window to ground floor left. Setting: Situated overlooking the bay of Portballintrae, between Beach Road and Lisanduff Avenue. Large lawned garden to front with gravel paths to entrance doors; garden bounded to road by roughcast cement rendered wall with saddleback coping; modern steel latch-gate leading to Beach Road. Enclosed to southwest by modern timber fence with timber gate. Gravel driveway entrance to southwest leads to rear yard, accessed via whitewashed wall with soldier coping and square rendered piers with undressed stone caps supporting original wrought-iron gate. Former toilet blocks of rock-faced blackstone to rear, with slated lean-to roofs, sandstone quoins and red-brick surrounds to timber-sheeted doors. Bounded to rear by undressed blackstone wall. Roof: Natural slate Walling: Painted roughcast render Windows: Timber sash with horns RWG: Plastic