Leafield, Island Road, Ballycarry, Larne, Co Antrim is a listed building in the Mid and East Antrim local planning authority area, Northern Ireland.

Leafield, Island Road, Ballycarry, Larne, Co Antrim

WRENN ID
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Grade
Local Planning Authority
Mid and East Antrim
Constituency
East Antrim MP: Sammy Wilson (DUP)
Country
Northern Ireland
Irish grid reference
J 451 937
Coordinates
54.77086, -5.74576
Source
NI Environment Agency listing

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Description

Leafield is a rural property located on Island Road, Ballycarry, Larne, County Antrim, within the townland of Forthill. The main house, originally constructed between 1820 and 1839, has been demolished, leaving only overgrown ruins of low rubble walls. Several outbuildings remain, including a two-storey gabled block with rubble walls and a slated roof, currently in a semi-derelict state. Adjoining this is a single-storey range with whitened walls and a corrugated iron roof. A description from a 1970 survey noted the house as having roughcast walls and a slated roof. The site appears on the Ordnance Survey map of 1831 and was the birthplace of General Sir James Stuart Steele, who held a senior position in the British Army for three years. The vernacular building demonstrates no particular architectural merit.

Local climate

Leafield, Island Road, Ballycarry, Larne, Co Antrim sits in a wetter-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 1,090 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 87% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 88% of listed buildings.

It experiences an average of 5 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 97% of listed buildings. Of these, 3 follow at least 1 mm of rain in the preceding 48 hours. Average temperatures at this location have risen by 0.2°C per decade since 1991.

Averages for 1991–2020; temperature trend 1991–2025. Figures describe the wider area (a grid cell of roughly 10 km), not the individual site. Contains modified Copernicus Climate Change Service information 2026.

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