6 Glenoe Village, Glenoe, Larne, Co Antrim, BT40 3LG

6 Glenoe Village, Glenoe, near Larne, Co Antrim

This is an early 19th-century house of vernacular Georgian character, displaying informal proportions and details typical of its period. It retains the essential appearance of its original exterior and occupies a pleasant setting as part of an attractive and historically important local group formed with adjacent contemporary terrace houses.

The building is a small two-storey gabled house with a single chimney on the right-hand gable. The main entrance faces west. The west elevation is two windows wide.

The roof is laid in Bangor Blue slates in regular courses, flush with the gables, with dark-toned ridge tiles and a cast iron gutter. The walls are of rubble stonework, partly rough rendered, limewashed and whitened, with a projecting whitened eaves course. The ground floor comprises a rectangular doorway to the left with a rectangular window to the right, while the first floor has two windows. All windows are rectangular timber sliding sashes, vertically hung with 2 over 2 panes and horns, painted white with exposed sash boxes painted green. The reveals are whitened and each has a projecting concrete cill painted green. The doorway has a rectangular ledged timber door with a small rectangular patterned glass fanlight below a slightly recessed door head, all painted green. It features a brass door handle and latch of traditional pattern, a plain brass letterbox, and a concrete doorstep. The single chimney on the right gable is constructed of firebrick with a projecting string course, topped by a modern small red terracotta pot with cowl, to which a small TV aerial is attached. A low dry stone wall of basalt and limestone rubble extends to the right-hand side.

The north elevation is formed by the north gable with walling consistent with the main front, and a rounded corner to the left. A Local Authority street sign is attached here. A low rubble stone boundary wall with whitened pointing and unwhitened basalt rock and boulder copings extends to the left, bordering the rear garden.

The east elevation is two-storey with roof and walling matching the entrance elevation. It has a cast iron gutter with a circular cast iron downpipe to the left. The ground floor has a rectangular doorway to the left and a rectangular window to the right, while the first floor has two rectangular windows. The windows are sashed and painted as on the entrance front, except one on the first floor to the right, which is a rectangular fixed light with top-hung vent containing translucent glass. A broad flat-topped stone projects from the facade to the left of the door. A circular PVC soil pipe and black painted electrical trunking are present to the right of the elevation.

The south elevation is formed by the south gable. The walling incorporates whitened brickwork in two areas below the chimney: one directly below extending from ground level, and one to the right raking up from the first floor level. The chimney sits on the apex of the gable. A cast iron gutter runs across the whole gable, returned from the front and rear elevations. A short nib of whitened rubble wall projects from the left-hand extremity of the gable just above first floor level, with a low dry stone wall of basalt and limestone rubble projecting forward from it.

The house stands on a corner site on the east side of the main street in the village, directly facing the street with its north gable directly on to a side road. It is at the bottom of a run of listed houses on a sloping street, linked to them at the front by a low boundary wall. Directly outside the front door is the main tarmacadam road without pavement. To the south is a small garden containing a lawn separated from the house by a flower bed and path. To the rear is a tarmac yard surrounded by low hedges and containing small garden sheds. The boundary to the side road at the rear is formed by a low stone wall backed by hedging and containing a plain iron vehicular gate. The boundary to the south is formed by the gable of the house at number 8 and a low dry stone wall linked to the gable by a small wooden gate.

At the east end of the low stone wall stands a pair of pig-houses: single-storey structures with low walls of basalt rubble, symmetrically planned with a small rectangular open doorway to each house within a small rectangular forecourt entered through a pair of rectangular openings which retain iron hinges for gates, now missing. One loose gate remains within the yard. The roofs are laid in Bangor Blue slates in regular courses with black ridge tiles, and are in poor condition with sagging to each ridge. The interiors are rubble-walled and partially whitened.

Historical context: The house appears on the Ordnance Survey map of 1832. An Andrew Nicholl watercolour of the Village of Glenoe from circa 1828 in the Ulster Museum shows this house as a single-storey thatched cottage. A photograph in the Hogg collection from circa 1906 records the building, and photographs in the Green Collection at the Ulster Folk and Transport Museum also document it. These historical sources indicate that the house has been enlarged from its original single-storey thatched form to its current two-storey configuration.