Stratherin, 59 Belfast Road, Carrickfergus, Co.Antrim, BT38 8BY

Stratherin is a detached three-bay two-storey Edwardian house built around 1905, situated on an elevated site to the north of Belfast Road in Carrickfergus. The building is rectangular on plan with a two-storey tower to the left, a two-storey canted bay to the right with pitched roof, and two single-storey returns to the rear.

The roofs are pitched and slated with terracotta ridge tiles, featuring deep overhanging sheeted eaves on moulded timber brackets and plainly detailed bargeboards. Three roof-lights are set into the rear roof. Smooth rendered corbelled chimney-stacks rise to the gables. Rainwater goods are cast-iron with ogee profile gutters and round downpipes, though some rainwater goods have been replaced with aluminium. The walls are smooth rendered, with a deep moulded string course and plinth to the front elevation only.

Windows throughout are square-headed 1/1 timber sliding sashes with horns, all with smooth rendered architraves and masonry cills unless otherwise noted. The principal elevation faces south. The central section contains the principal entrance to the right, surmounted by a Wyatt window within a segmental-headed opening. A single window to the left at ground floor is surmounted by a segmental-headed casement at first floor. The two-storey tower at the left corner has a slated bell-cast pyramidal roof with lead finial to the apex, moulded eaves, and three windows at each floor. The two-storey canted bay to the right has a gable-fronted wall-head with slated pitched roof; segmental-headed Wyatt windows to each floor are flanked by single windows to each cheek.

The entrance is recessed within a segmental-headed opening with deep moulded architrave. A three-panel door is offset to the left with a fixed sidelight to the right and plainly detailed fanlight above, accessed by five masonry steps. The left gable is abutted by a two-storey tower to the right corner, with an exposed section featuring central plainly detailed glazed doors surmounted by a round-headed stained glass casement. Single windows to each side at ground and first floor are accessed by three semi-circular pre-cast steps.

The rear elevation is abutted by a single-storey return to the left with mono-pitched slated roof and a single-storey timber conservatory to the right with mono-pitch roof, which further adjoins a single-storey outbuilding with slated roof to the left. The exposed rear section has a replacement timber door with two windows to the right and one to the left (significantly larger); four windows at first floor, those to the centre diminished. The right gable has two windows to each floor. The single-storey return to the west elevation has two timber sheeted doors with two windows between—a sliding sash to the right and timber casement to the left. All other elevations are blank.

The single-storey timber conservatory has casement windows throughout, is supported on a plinth wall and masonry cills, and features an original timber panelled door to the north gable with two glazed panes over a single fixed panel. A mono-pitch outbuilding abuts the conservatory to the east and contains a single door to its south (house-facing) side.

The house remains within its original setting with mature gardens to the south and a gravel driveway accessed by an alcoved entrance comprising a plinth wall and square pillars with plinth and bell-cast caps. Original painted cast metal entrance gates remain intact.