8 Glenoe Village, Glenoe, Larne, Co Antrim, BT40 3LG

8 Glenoe Village, Glenoe, Larne, is an early 19th-century domestic property of vernacular Georgian character. It is a small two-storey house in what was formerly a terrace of four houses. In 1992–93, it was restored by the Hearth housing association and internally combined with the adjoining house (formerly No 9) to form a single dwelling, with the level change between them accommodated by internal stairs and a thickened party wall.

The building displays informal proportions and detailing characteristic of its type, retaining the essence of its original exterior appearance. It stands on the east side of the main street in Glenoe, stepping up the hill to the south, set back slightly from a narrow pavement and forming part of an attractive and important group of considerable local interest.

The main entrance of the original No 8 faces west. The west elevation is two windows wide. The roof is laid in Bangor Blue slates in regular courses, continuous with the adjoining house to the left and contained by the gable of the adjoining house to the right, with dark-toned ridge tiles. The eaves overhang and are fitted with a cast iron gutter on a white painted fascia, with a circular cast iron downpipe to the left-hand side. The walling is rubble stonework, limewashed and whitened. Windows are rectangular timber sliding sashes, vertically hung, 4 over 3, with horns and exposed sash boxes, all painted green. Wooden lintels are painted green with whitened reveals to the sides; projecting concrete cills are painted green. The door is rectangular timber ledged in a recessed moulded wooden surround with a timber lintel; it has a modern iron door latch in traditional pattern, whitened reveals to the sides, and is approached by stone pavings to the front doorstep with a stone cobbled area to the left of the doorway, below the level of the roadway.

The house to the right, formerly No 9, steps up the hill and steps forward. It is two-storey and three windows wide, with its original main entrance also facing west. The west elevation displays three windows. The roof is similar to No 8, with an overhanging verge to the left-hand gable. Two chimneys, one projecting from the left-hand gable and one near the centre of the ridge, are constructed of brick with projecting cornices, all whitened, each topped with two old stoneware pots. The eaves overhang with cast iron gutter on white painted timber fascia; a circular cast iron downpipe to the right-hand side rakes down to connect with the downpipe of the adjoining house to the right (No 10). The walling matches No 8, with four whitened corbels to the left-hand extremity carrying the first floor. The first floor has three windows detailed as those of No 8 but sashed 2 over 1. A ground floor window between two doorways is sashed 2 over 2. Doors are as those of No 8, except the left-hand one has a modern plain brass letterbox and the right-hand one has no ironmongery. Concrete pavoirs resembling stone slabs front the left-hand door, with rubble stone paving to the right extending uphill past the right-hand door. A stepped path of basalt and limestone blocks to the right of the original No 8's doorway angles up to the projecting face of No 9.

The rear elevation of No 8 is two-storey and two windows wide. The roof is slated as the front, continuous with the roof of the house adjoining to the right (No 7) but contained by its gable. Overhanging eaves are fitted with a cast iron gutter. The two first-floor windows are detailed as those to the entrance front but the left-hand one is sashed 1 over 1 without horns, and the right-hand one is sashed 2 over 1 without horns. The two ground-floor windows are similar, both sashed 2 over 1 without horns. A central door is rectangular timber ledged with a glazed panel in a moulded recessed wooden surround with a wooden lintel, all painted green, with whitened reveals and a concrete step. The area outside this door is paved with modern concrete flags, bordered to the right by a whitened rubble screen wall with concrete copings, originally the side wall of a rear return. The yard is bordered to the left by a rockery garden stepping up the slope of the hill to a flower bed and lawn to the rear of No 9.

The rear elevation of No 9 is two-storey. The roof is slated as before, with a cast iron gutter and circular cast iron downpipe to the right-hand side; a PVC soil pipe runs centrally, painted green. The two first-floor windows are detailed as those to the entrance front except the right-hand window on each floor has a recessed cill; all windows are sashed 2 over 1 with horns, except the left-hand ground-floor window which is 2 over 2 with horns. The boundary to the south side of the rear garden is formed by a low wall, rendered and whitened, with basalt rubble and boulder copings.

The conjoined houses stand facing onto the street with grassy lawns to the rear laid out on two levels with a rockery between. The boundary of the rear garden on the north side is formed by a tall whitened rubble wall extending to a wooden fence; the boundary on the south side is formed by the low whitened rubble wall described above, extending to a wooden fence. The adjoining houses are of similar materials and detailing.

The building appears on the Ordnance Survey map of 1832 and is recorded in the Ordnance Survey Memoirs of Ireland. Historical photographs are held in the Green Collection at the Ulster Folk and Transport Museum. An early 19th-century watercolour by Andrew Nicholl titled "Village of Glenoe, near Larne" (c 1828), held in the Ulster Museum, shows the original setting, though this house is either not yet built or hidden behind the building line in that depiction.