30/32 Harbour Road, Carnlough, Ballymena, Co Antrim, BT44 0EU

30 and 32 Harbour Road, Carnlough

A two-storey, three-bay building with a shop incorporated into part of the ground floor, Grade B2 listed. The main entrance faces east onto the main street of the village.

The east-facing entrance elevation is roofed with Bangor blue slates laid in regular courses, with two rendered chimneys positioned at each extremity. The walling is smooth rendered and lined with blocking, with raised quoins at the corners and a plain projecting eaves course. Cast iron gutters and downpipes run along this face.

The windows are rectangular timber sliding sash with 1 over 1 panes and horns, featuring segmental arched top rails and exposed sash boxes set in square moulded surrounds. Stone cills project and are painted. These are replacements from around 1997-2000 of earlier windows that were sashed 6 over 6 with plain top rails. A modern scrolling steel grille has been affixed above the ground floor window cill.

The main panelled rectangular door is set within a semi-circular arched opening with a plain fanlight. Panelled pilasters rise to panelled architrave blocks and a panelled archivolt with keystone. Modern wrought iron brackets for hanging baskets and a scrolling ironwork shop sign bracket are mounted on this elevation.

The shopfront consists of a rectangular glazed and panelled timber door topped by a plain rectangular fanlight, set in a timber frame and recessed in square moulded surrounds. Large rectangular timber fixed lights with segmental arched top rails flank the doorway on either side (replacements from 1997 for previous plain horizontal top rails), similarly recessed in square moulded surrounds with projecting stone cills. Modern scrolling steel grilles have been affixed above the cills of these lights. A modern extractor fan is set in the fanlight.

The north gable is partially obscured above a former railway bridge; the visible upper portion is blank, cement rendered with a wet dash finish of crushed stones.

The rear elevation is two-storey, finished in roughcast render using crushed stones and painted white. The roof is slated as at the front, with three modern flush rooflights and PVC gutters and downpipes. The first floor contains three new windows appearing to be PVC, rectangular fixed lights with top-hung vents incorporating horns to give the appearance of timber sashed windows. A similar window is fitted to the ground floor.

The ground floor features a single-storey projecting extension with rendered walls and a corrugated perspex low-pitch roof, containing an all-glass plastic-framed sliding French window. At the far left of the ground floor is a single-storey return with an iron lean-to roof of synthetic slates.

A patio of red tiles with steps leads up to an elevated yard with tarmac surface. The rear yard also contains a lean-to garage with rendered walls, corrugated iron roof and car-port. The yard boundaries comprise a limestone rubble wall of the former railway viaduct to the north, bare concrete blockwork of an adjacent two to three-storey building to the south, and a bare concrete block wall with corrugated steel door to the west.

The building stands in the main street at one end of a terrace, with a former railway bridge abutting it up to eaves level. A small pedestrian archway over the pavement and a telephone kiosk are sited adjacent at the front. The rear yard opens out to High Street.