Pig house at 3 Ballywillin Road, Gleno, Larne, Co Antrim

This is a small, well-preserved pig house that likely represents an improved or recommended design for farm buildings. Its presence enhances the vernacular character of the village. Constructed of basalt rubble, the pig house is a gabled building comprising two chambers, with two low-walled brick-paved enclosures in front. The main entrance faces east. The roof is covered in Bangor Blue slates laid in regular courses, with dark-toned ridge tiles impressed with the maker's mark ‘C. Davison & Co., Buckley, Flintshire’ in a shield motif. There is a small rectangular opening into each chamber. Basalt rubble boundary walling defines the enclosures at the front, and a wing wall extends from the rear on the south side; basalt rock copings are present. The south gable, external faces of the wing wall, and boundary walling on the south and east sides are all whitened. Two small gates of flat ironwork are set into the front boundary wall of the enclosures. A gravel path leads to the front and side of the building, and the rear faces a field. The pig house appears on an Ordnance Survey map of 1902, revised in 1921, and was likely built between 1880 and 1899. It stands alongside a driveway leading to a farm close in the centre of the village.