Browndod, 15 Browndod Road, Larne, Co Antrim, BT40 3JS

Browndod is an early Victorian house dating to between 1840 and 1859, retaining most of its 19th-century features intact. The building first appears on the Ordnance Survey map of 1857, though some of its outbuildings are shown on the 1832 map.

The main house is a two-storey, three-bay structure built of basalt rubble in regular courses, painted black, with a two-storey return to the rear and a long wing of rubble stone outbuildings to one side. The entrance front faces north and is symmetrical, measuring five windows wide with a central doorway. The roof is hipped, covered in Bangor blue slates in regular courses with black ridge tiles. The eaves are oversailing with a flat timber soffit, now fitted with PVC replacement guttering which does not spoil the overall appearance. Cast iron downpipes serve the roof. Two chimneys are centrally placed on cross walls, finished in glazed yellow brick with moulded cornices.

Red sandstone projecting platbands run across the front at cill level to both ground and first floors, painted cream, while brick dressings to all openings are also painted cream, a finish that is not original but is attractive nonetheless. The front doorway is recessed in a rectangular cement-rendered surround, with a plain panelled replacement door, decoratively glazed sidelights, and fanlight. Concrete steps provide access. The windows are vertically hung sashes without horns, with 3 over 6 lights to the first floor and 6 over 6 to the ground floor; two flank the doorway, and five span the first-floor front, with the central window above the door recessed in a rectangular surround.

On the east elevation, two original windows are present, one to each floor, positioned beyond the wall of an abutting outbuilding. The two-storey return extends to the left with a half-hipped slated roof and cement-rendered chimney. Its windows are irregularly placed and of mixed original and replacement types, with a modern overhead garage door. A mid-20th-century flat-roofed porch over the side entrance detracts from the overall appearance. The south wall of the return is limewashed and contains a blocked-up first-floor opening. The west elevation of the return displays basalt walls consistent with the main house, with one vertically hung sash window with horns, 4 over 4 lights.

The south wall of the main house features a later rendered single-storey canted bay with a hipped roof covered in what appears to be tarred lead. Three windows occupy the bay—vertically hung sashes with horns, 6 over 1 lights, with coloured glass to the top lights. A single window sits above the bay, matching those on the front elevation. Between the house and return stands a blank gabled late two-storey addition with smooth cement-rendered walls, which spoils the coherence of the stonework. Its upper west-facing windows match the front elevation style, though one has horns; the ground floor has coupled timber sashes with horns, each 1 over 1 light, divided by a central mullion. The west wall of the main house is blank except for short returns of the front platbands.

The house stands in a rural location amidst farmland, with a mature garden to the front. A number of outbuildings in rubble basalt with red brick dressings are positioned to the side and rear; these are of no architectural interest.