22 Scotch Quarter, Carrickfergus, Co Antrim, BT38 7DP

22 Scotch Quarter is a two-storey house of probable early 19th-century date, likely constructed between 1820 and 1839. It appears on the first Ordnance Survey map of 1832 and is documented in contemporary Ordnance Survey memoirs, which recorded that newly erected houses in the Scotch Quarter during the period 1820 to 1835 were mostly of good quality. The building retains a fine original staircase but has undergone extensive alterations to both interior and exterior that substantially diminish its historical and architectural value.

The main entrance faces south. The south elevation is five windows wide across two storeys with a central entrance doorway. The roof is covered in Bangor blue slates laid in regular courses with black tiles on the ridge, running between a gabled upstand with blue tile copings on the right and continuous with the roof of the adjoining number 20 to the left. Chimneys at each extremity are of smooth cement render, lined and blocked, with original creamware pots. The walls are smooth cement rendered, lined and blocked, painted cream, with a brown painted plinth and projecting eaves course. Windows are rectangular timber sliding sash, vertically hung, 1 over 1 with horns; ground floor windows have affixed lightweight plywood arches and are covered with steel mesh protective grilles. Window cills are projecting stone or concrete with plain reveals. The entrance is rectangular with a flush timber door in a recessed wooden frame with a plain rectangular fanlight above and a concrete doorstep.

The east elevation comprises a blank gable of the main block with a two-storey side return to the right, rising to a third storey further right. The main block wall is smooth cement rendered, painted cream to first floor level, with a crack running from top to bottom in the render. The two-storey return has smooth cement rendered finish, painted cream on the ground floor only. Two first-floor windows are rectangular timber sliding sash, 6 over 6 without horns, with projecting stone cills, one in poor condition. The ground floor has a wide rectangular opening containing a modern timber-framed glazed door and screen with sidelights and fanlight, with a timber lintel and concrete doorstep. The three-storey portion has a rectangular timber glazed and panelled door in a plain recess with a concrete step, two rectangular timber sliding sash windows to the right (2 over 1 with horns and exposed sashbox, with projecting cill), and a 9-pane timber fixed light further right. The third floor has a rectangular timber sliding sash window, 6 over 6 without horns. Rainwater goods comprise PVC guttering to the two-storey return and cast iron guttering and downpipe to the three-storey return.

The north elevation comprises a blank gable with smooth cement rendered walls painted cream to ground floor only. The ground floor right corner is rounded at ground level with an oversailing square corner above.

The west elevation comprises a three-storey rear block to the left and a two-storey block stepping forward to the right. Walls are smooth cement rendered, painted cream to ground floor only. The three-storey portion has two rectangular timber sliding sash windows to each floor (6 over 6 without horns to ground and first floor, with horns to second floor), with plain reveals and projecting stone cills. The two-storey return has two semi-circular arched windows, one to each floor. The ground floor window is the larger, a sliding sash 6 over 6 with margin lights and tracery lights incorporating intersecting glazing bars, without horns, with projecting stone cill. The first floor window is similar but without margin lights and appears fixed. Cast iron guttering and downpipes (partly PVC) serve both portions. Concrete yards surround the building sides and rear.

Standing to the rear beyond the yard is a two-storey outbuilding of poor architectural quality with smooth cement rendered walls and PVC rainwater goods. Rectangular timber windows are largely altered except for one sliding sash, 2 over 2 without horns, to the extreme left on the ground floor. Two doorways are built-up or altered; the main entrance comprises a modern glazed pair of doors and doorscreen set in a built-up segmental arched opening. The roof is covered in Bangor blue slates in regular courses. Beyond the outbuilding is a large rear yard extending eastwards to cover the area to the rear of the adjacent buildings at numbers 24 and 26 Scotch Quarter.

The building stands facing the main road, overlooking a public park with an open view to the sea. It is situated in the urban area within the built-up town and forms the end of a terrace development of three houses, all three-storey. An alleyway to the side leading to the rear is closed by a modern steel-railed gate and screen. The boundary to the large rear yard is formed by a rubble stone wall with a concrete blockwork gateway. The building sits within a conservation area.