78-84 Portmuck Road, Islandmagee, Larne, Co Antrim, BT40 3TP

A terrace of four two-storey gabled houses with a later single-storey addition to one end. Two-storey houses roofed with Bangor blue slates in regular courses; red terracotta ridge tiles; white painted roughcast walls with red brick quoins and dressings to openings; windows segmental arched, timber sliding sash, vertically hung, with horns, 2 over 2 with one vertical glazing bar each sash; six chimneys in red brick but three rebuilt without cornices or strings; original ledged timber door with later circular glazed panel at no. 78; other doors replacements as follows: no. 80, new multi-panelled door; no. 82, new pseudo-Georgian door incorporating integral fanlight, inappropriate; no. 84, new panelled door with side lights. Rear elevations similar character and details to front; walled yards to rear containing outbuildings in basalt rubble partly roughcast. SETTING: The terrace stands in an isolated but elevated position surrounded by fields, reached by a lane and overlooking the coast at Portmuck Bay from where it is easily visible. Single storey addition at south end, appears as no. 76 on OS map, flat-roofed, roughcast walls to side and rear, red brick to front with canted glazing in aluminium frames, surmounted by timber fascia, all in modern style of mid-20th century, built and functioning as a coastguard station, inappropriate replacement for small single-storey store originally there. Alongside it is a large detached gabled garage which also detracts from the setting of the terrace.