140 Upper Road, Greenisland, Carrickfergus, Co. Antrim, BT38 8RL

A well-proportioned early twentieth-century semi-detached house built around 1910, located on an elevated site to the north of Upper Road, Carrickfergus. It forms a symmetrical pair with its adjoining property at No. 138, together creating a group of local architectural interest.

The building is rectangular-on-plan with three bays and two storeys plus an attic. The principal south-facing elevation features a two-and-a-half-storey projecting gabled bay to the right, with a two-storey canted bay to the centre containing a flat roof. A single-storey projecting entrance porch occupies the internal angle between these features. Paired windows sit to the left of the principal elevation.

The walls are finished in roughcast render with a moulded stringcourse and smooth rendered plinth. The hipped roof (pitched to the north gable) is covered in natural slate with crested terracotta ridge tiles and features ogee-profile cast-iron rainwater goods. Moulded eaves sit above a dentilled course. Three rendered stepped gable chimneystack with terracotta pots are positioned: two to chimneys serving the main building and one to the rear. Two roof lights pierce the north slope.

Windows throughout are 1/1 timber sliding sashes with moulded architraves and painted masonry cills, except at the ground floor to the north return where replacement uPVC casements without moulded architraves have been installed. The principal elevation contains segmental-headed windows at first-floor level, while those at ground level are square-headed. The canted bay contains single windows to each cheek at ground and first-floor levels sharing a continuous cill, topped by paired square-headed windows within the gable. A dormer to the left features a pitched natural slate roof, plain timber bargeboards and a terracotta finial.

The entrance porch comprises a six-panelled timber door within a glazed entrance porch (panelled to the bottom half). Stained glass glazed transom lights light the entrance. The porch is accessed by two masonry steps and features crested timber eaves and decorative cast-iron cresting around the leaded flat roof.

The rear elevation is formed by a two-storey pitched slate roof return, abutted to the right by a single-storey lean-to extension. The exposed section to the right is blank, while the exposed left section has a timber door with two fixed panels and thirteen glazed panes over, with a transom light, plus a window to the right. The right gable contains a single window to each floor. The north gable return has a uPVC corner window to the ground floor at the left. The east elevation contains two uPVC windows at ground floor and three windows at first floor. The west elevation has a single window at first-floor level.

A boundary wall encloses a small rear yard to the left corner, accessed by a timber sheeted door. The house sits parallel to the road on its elevated site, accessed by a lane to the right. Mature trees and garden bound the property to the road, with garden extending to the rear where a single-storey pitched garage stands to the north.

The building first appears on the sixth edition Ordnance Survey map of 1920–21. Valuation records from 1904 describe it as a 'house and yard', then occupied by John H. Pender and leased from Susan Loughlin, valued at £27. A garden was added to the property in 1908, and Andrew Harper became the occupier in 1918.