Rocklands House, 2 Wesley Court, Belfast Road, Carrickfergus, BT38 8HS

Rocklands House is a detached, symmetrical three-bay two-storey house built around 1820 and renovated circa 1995. It is located on the south side of Belfast Road in Carrickfergus.

The building is arranged in an L-plan with a single-storey hipped-roof return to the east gable and a two-storey return to the south, further extended by a single-storey lean-to glazed conservatory to the rear. The roofs are hipped and slated with blue and black clay ridge tiles leaded to the hips. Deep overhanging eaves are supported on paired moulded timber brackets, present on the front and gable elevations only. Two smooth rendered corbelled chimney-stacks rise from the party walls without pots. Rainwater goods consist of cast-iron ogee profile gutters with round downpipes. The walls are ruled-and-lined rendered with a smooth rendered string course and plinth.

The principal elevation faces north and features full-height pilaster detail to the corners. Windows throughout are square-headed 1/1 timber sliding sashes with horns, each with deep moulded architraves and painted masonry cills. Windows on the ground floor of the principal facade are surmounted by segmental hoodmoulds. The principal entrance is recessed within a segmental-headed opening with keyblock and deep moulded architrave. It comprises a ten-panelled door with original ironmongery, flanked by leaded sidelights over fixed timber panels, and framed by timber pilasters and central colonettes. A dentilled cornice and decorative sunburst fanlight sit above. The entrance is accessed by three masonry steps, the original surface now faced with concrete. The principal facade contains two windows to each side at ground floor and five windows at first floor.

The left gable is abutted by a single-storey return with hipped roof; the exposed section is blank with a chimney-stack at the gable wall. The rear elevation is abutted by the two-storey return to the left; the exposed section has one window at each floor. The right gable is blank, though two windows at first floor are now blocked. The south elevation of the two-storey return is abutted by the fully glazed lean-to conservatory at ground floor, with its central door and flanking windows remaining internally visible. Three windows occupy the first floor of this elevation.

The single-storey return is smooth rendered but otherwise detailed as the main block. Its east elevation contains a central timber entrance door with one stained glass pane over two fixed panels, flanked by two windows on each side. This entrance is accessed by three masonry steps. A wall to the left contains a round-headed arch providing access to a gable entrance and offices in an adjacent building, previously an outbuilding associated with Rocklands House. The west gable is blank; the east gable is abutted by the single-storey return.

The timber conservatory features casement windows throughout, is supported on a plinth wall with painted masonry cills, and retains original timber panelled doors to each gable, each comprising a central glazed pane with margins over two fixed panels.

The house now sits within an extensive urban housing development with open space between Belfast Road and the house frontage. The adjacent office building, previously an outbuilding, is located to the north of the house and accessed through the round-headed arch in the boundary wall.