42-44 Harbour Road, Carnlough, Ballymena, Co Antrim, BT44 0EU

42-44 Harbour Road, Carnlough

A two-storey three-bay terrace house with rendered walls and slated roof, built between 1880 and 1899. The building forms part of a terrace of six houses facing directly onto the pavement with views across the main road to the harbour. The site was empty in 1872 but appears on the Ordnance Survey map of 1903.

The front elevation has a roof of Bangor blue slates in regular courses with two chimneys at the extremities. The walls are smooth rendered, lined and blocked, with a modern PVC gutter and downpipe. The first-floor windows are modern rectangular PVC fixed lights with top-hung vents set in plain reveals with projecting cills and modern scrolling wrought iron plant box supports. The ground floor contains a central doorway with a modern rectangular glazed flush timber door surmounted by a plain fanlight. To the left is a large rectangular PVC fixed light window with two top-hung vents and a recessed cill. To the right is a large rectangular recessed shop-front with timber fixed lights above tiled lower panels, a modern glazed door, tiled sides to the recess, and a steel shutter mounted above.

The rear elevation is two storeys wide with four windows, one to each side of a later two-storey projecting extension. The roof is of asbestos slates in regular courses with modern flush rooflights, modern PVC gutter and downpipes, and roughcast rendered walls using stone chippings. All windows are rectangular timber fixed-light with top-hung vents except for the lower left window in the projecting extension, which is a vertically hung timber sliding sash with 1 over 1 glazing and horns, a replacement from the 1960s. The yard is concrete, elevated above ground floor level and reached by steps.

Also within the curtilage is a pebble-dashed rubble stone two-storey building in the yard known as nos. 59 and 61 High Street. This building has a roof of Bangor blue slates in regular courses, one red brick chimney, metal gutter and downpipe, and walls of dry-dash render using small pebbles with smooth rendered surrounds to openings and borders to the entire facade. The High Street elevation has three first-floor windows of timber sliding sash, vertically hung, 1 over 1 with horns, each lower sash containing one horizontal glazing bar. The ground floor has one similar window, a wooden panelled and glazed door to the left, and two large rectangular garage doors to the right—one of profiled metal and one of two-leaf ledged timber—neither original. No. 59 abuts the terrace house to the right, while no. 61 displays a pebble-dashed gable on the left.

The building is located within a conservation area.