92 Ballygarvey Road, Broughshane, Ballymena, Co.Antrim

92 Ballygarvey Road is a workers' house forming part of a short terrace built in 1865. Date panels on the gables confirm this construction date, which is supported by evidence in the annual valuation revision notebooks recording four new houses built in this area in that year. The terrace was built by Andrew Currell as workers' housing for his large beetling mill and bleach works located to the south.

Currell's mill had been in operation since before 1832. The 1836 valuation describes a large and relatively old complex consisting of long two-storey and single-storey buildings including an engine house, workshop, yarn loft, bleach house, dye house and starch house. Contemporary Ordnance Survey memoirs state that a great quantity of Union Cloth was manufactured and bleached there, with about 60 weavers employed who worked in their own homes. The Currell family occupied Ballygarvey, a large two-storey house built around 1820-30, located just to the north across the road from the terrace and still standing in an enlarged form.

The 1832 Ordnance Survey map shows a large L-shaped building on part of the present terrace site, with a long rectangular building to the east. The 1836 valuation suggests this grouping contained a workman's dwelling, stables and offices. By 1857 the eastern building had been extended at its northern end. The 1859 valuation notebook indicates the grouping contained small dwellings, with the eastern portion largely comprising small houses and the terrace site containing two further houses. The present terrace stretches further east than the 1857 structure shown on the map. Whilst some earlier fabric may have been incorporated, number 92 at the east end appears to be wholly new construction. The relatively large size of the dwellings suggests they housed higher-status employees, with number 92, the largest property in the grouping, possibly reserved for an overseer or foreman. The 1865 tenants were John Miller, Alexander Stewart, James Stewart and Hugh Bowens.

In 1892 or 1893 the mill was damaged in a fire, gutted with floors and machinery partly destroyed. Prior to 1901 the mill and workers' houses were acquired by Raceview Woollen Mill firm, owned by John Killen Wilson, with the Wilson family occupying Ballygarvey house. The complex continued operating as a mill until the 1980s. The mill workers' houses are now private dwellings.