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

8 Glenoe Village is a Grade B1 listed building comprising two conjoined two-storey houses on the east side of the main street in Glenoe, Larne, County Antrim. The building steps up the hillside and consists of the original No 8 combined with the former No 9 to form one dwelling.

The original No 8 has its main entrance facing west. The west elevation is two windows wide. The roof is covered in Bangor Blue slates laid in regular courses, 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 walls are rubble stonework, limewashed and whitened. Windows are rectangular timber sliding sashes, vertically hung, with 4 over 3 lights and horns, with exposed sash boxes, all painted green. Wooden lintels and whitened reveals flank the windows; projecting concrete cills are painted green. The main door is rectangular timber ledged in a recessed moulded wooden surround with timber lintel, fitted with a modern iron door latch in traditional pattern and whitened reveals. The front has stone pavings to the doorstep with a stone cobbled area to the left of the doorway below road level, and basalt and limestone blocks forming a stepped path to the right.

The former No 9, now adjoined to No 8, steps forward and up the hill. Its west elevation is three windows wide. The roof is similar to No 8 with an overhanging verge to the left-hand gable. Two chimneys constructed of brick with projecting cornices and whitened finish stand one projecting from the left-hand gable and one near the centre of the ridge; each carries two old stoneware pots. 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). Four whitened corbels to the left-hand extremity carry the first floor. Three first-floor windows are sashed 2 over 1, detailed as No 8. One similar window to the ground floor between two doorways is sashed 2 over 2. The left-hand door has a modern plain brass letterbox; the right-hand door 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.

The rear elevation of No 8 is two-storey and two windows wide, with roof, eaves, gutter and walling as described for the front. Two first-floor windows are sashed, the left 1 over 1 and the right 2 over 1, both without horns. Two ground-floor windows are sashed 2 over 1, also without horns. A central door is rectangular timber ledged with a glazed panel in a moulded recessed wooden surround with wooden lintel, all painted green, with whitened reveals and a concrete step. Outside the door is an area 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 rear elevation of No 9 is two-storey with slated roof, cast iron gutter with downpipe to the right-hand side, and a PVC soil pipe painted green in the centre. Two windows to each floor are sashed 2 over 1 with horns, except the left-hand ground-floor window which is sashed 2 over 2 with horns; the right-hand window on each floor has a recessed cill.

The rear garden is bordered to the left by a rockery garden stepping up the slope to a flower bed and lawn to the rear of No 9. 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. Grassy lawns to the rear are laid out on two levels with a rockery between. The rear boundary on the north side is formed by a tall whitened rubble wall extending to a wooden fence; the southern boundary by a low whitened rubble wall with rubble copings, extending to a wooden fence.

The conjoined houses stand in a short terrace on the east side of the main street, facing onto the street and set back slightly from a narrow pavement. The adjoining houses are of similar materials and detailing.