21 Balmoral Avenue, Whitehead, Carrickfergus, Co Antrim, BT38 9QA

Attached two-bay one-and-a-half storey Arts and Crafts style house, built c.1900, located to the west side of Balmoral Avenue. Rectangular-on-plan with small kitchen extension to north-west. Roof is pitched and Rosemary clay tiled with clay ridge tiles; red brick corbelled chimneys with original clay pots; timber bargeboards. Walls are roughcast over smooth rendered plinth to sill height; platbands to window sill height and mid-levels. Windows are square-headed timber framed casements (divided 1/2) in smooth rendered architraves; painted masonry sills, unless otherwise stated. Principal elevation faces east; right bay consists of entrance containing square-headed five-panelled timber door with glazed sidelights and transom light; accessed by three concrete steps; flanked at right by two windows. Bay abutted by timber-framed veranda with glazed roof supported on turned timber columns over painted masonry balustrade; gabled bay at left is shared with HB22/06/024A; at ground floor, two segmental-headed windows surmounted by hood-moulding, canted corner at right beneath jettying contains single window; at first floor, walling has applied decorative half-timbering; single window at left. South elevation abutted by HB22/06/024A. West elevation consists of shared gable at right containing timber framed 1/1 sliding sash window at each floor and further metal framed window at first floor left; left bay abutted by extension at left; exposed wall contains single timber casement window. North gable consists of projecting double chimney-breast at centre with round-arched-headed recess containing timber framed 1/1 sliding sash window at each floor; at right, single timber framed 1/1 sliding sash window at each floor. At right, cat-slide roof continues to cover extension; abutted at right by roughcast walling containing square-headed vertically sheeted timber door to enclosed yard. Set within private gardens to north and east; enclosed yard to west containing single-storey rendered outbuilding. Modern garage to north. Bounded to north and south by hedging; rendered walling to east and west, access through smooth rendered square pillars supporting modern timber gates. Roof: Rosemary clay tiles Walling: Roughcast; applied decorative half-timbering at first floor Windows: Square-headed timber-framed casements divided ½ in smooth rendered surrounds; painted masonry sills RWG: Cast-iron ogee gutters with round downpipes