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

30 and 32 Harbour Road, Carnlough, is a mid-19th century terraced building, probably dating from the early 1850s and appearing on the Ordnance Survey map of 1857. It is a two-storey, three-bay structure with a shop incorporated in part of the ground floor, situated in the main street of the village where it contributes positively to the essentially 19th century character of the streetscape.

The main east-facing elevation is rendered with raised quoins to the extremities and a plain projecting eaves course. The roof is covered in Bangor blue slates in regular courses, with two rendered chimneys positioned at each extremity. Cast iron guttering and downpipes are fitted.

The windows are rectangular timber sliding sash with 1 over 1 glazing and horns, set in square moulded surrounds with segmental arched top rails and projecting stone cills, painted. These are replacements dating from approximately 1997 to 2000, which replaced the original 6 over 6 sashed windows; early survey records from 1970 indicate that at that time the upper windows were 1 over 1 whilst the ground floor window was 2 over 2. An early 20th century photograph suggests the original upper windows were small-paned, though the precise arrangement is unclear. The ground floor window has a modern scrolling steel grille affixed above the cill.

The main entrance is a panelled rectangular door set in a semi-circular arched opening with a plain fanlight. Panelled pilasters rise to panelled architrave blocks and panelled archivolt with keystone. The shop front comprises a rectangular glazed and panelled timber door surmounted by a plain rectangular fanlight, set within a timber frame and recessed in square moulded surrounds. To each side of the shop doorway are large rectangular timber fixed lights with segmental arched top rails (replacements of 1997 for previous plain horizontal top rails), also recessed in square moulded surrounds with projecting stone cills. These fixed lights also have modern scrolling steel grilles above their cills, and a modern extractor fan is set in the fanlight. Modern wrought iron brackets for hanging baskets and a scrolling ironwork shop sign bracket are mounted on the elevation.

The north gable is visible only above the former railway bridge abutting the building; it is blank and rendered in cement with a wet dash of crushed stones.

The rear elevation is two-storey and rendered in roughcast using crushed stones, painted white, with the roof slated as the front. Three modern rooflights are set flush into the roof. PVC guttering and downpipes are fitted. Three windows to the first floor are new and appear to be PVC-framed rectangular fixed lights with top-hung vents designed to resemble timber sashed windows and incorporating horns. One 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 extreme 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 to an elevated yard with tarmac surface.

The building stands at one end of the terrace with a former railway bridge abutting it on the other side up to eaves level. A small pedestrian archway over the pavement and a telephone kiosk are both adjacent at the front. At the rear there is a tarmac yard opening out to High Street, with a lean-to garage with rendered walls, corrugated iron roof and car-port. The rear yard is bounded to the north by a limestone rubble wall of the former railway viaduct, to the south by bare concrete blockwork of an adjacent two to three-storey building, and to the west by a bare concrete block wall with a corrugated steel door.

The building has lost some original features, particularly the early small-paned windows which have been progressively replaced, most recently in 1997 to 2000. However, it remains of architectural and local historical interest, retaining elements such as its original plan form, shop incorporation, arched doorway detail, and contribution to the village streetscape as part of a coherent 19th century terrace.