69 Shore Road, Greenisland, Carrickfergus, Co. Antrim, BT38 8TZ

A substantial detached two-storey Arts and Crafts style house built in 1902, located on Shore Road at Greenisland overlooking Belfast Lough. The building is well-maintained and retains most of its original external features.

The house is rectangular on plan with various projections, including a lower one-and-a-half storey L-shaped side return and a two-storey garage block to the north linked by a single-storey connecting block. The roof is pitched natural slate with a shallow pitch, overhanging eaves with timber soffits on timber modillion brackets and timber bargeboards. Tall roughcast chimneystacks have corbelled caps. Ogee cast-iron rainwater goods with box hoppers dated 1902 are present on the north-west elevation. The walling is painted roughcast with a fine rendered stringcourse between floors and a contrasting smooth rendered plinth.

Windows throughout are timber-framed leaded lattice casements divided by mullions. First floor windows have segmental-headed panes within square-headed frames, corbelled heads and cills on corbel brackets. The large stairwell window to the north-west has timber mullions and a transom with a round-headed central section.

The shore-facing south-east elevation of the main block is symmetrical and three bays wide, with outer bays gabled. Each bay has openings at each floor. The central bay is canted with French doors and continuous glazing contained within a recessed segmental-headed arched opening; ground floor windows are bowed. The return has a plain casement to the ground floor and two windows to the half-storey.

The road-facing north-west elevation is three bays wide. The right bay has a window to each floor. The central bay projects and contains the stairwell window. The left entrance bay is slightly taller and projects slightly further, with a first floor window and an entrance contained within a deep square-headed recess. The porch entrance has banded piers and a window to the left cheek. Double-leaf mahogany panelled doors with sidelights and a four-part transom are fitted with original bronze door furniture with letters inscribed on the letter box. Upper panels are glazed with bull's eye green glass with leaded margins, and there is a stone flagged threshold. The south-west side elevation has a canted projection to the centre and otherwise blank walls apart from single windows to each cheek. The north-east elevation of the return has a projecting chimneybreast at the left and is otherwise blank.

The linking block is abutted by a modern lean-to uPVC conservatory. The garage block has a single window and large picture window to the ground floor and a plain glazed timber casement to the first floor, with panelled and glazed garage doors.

The building is set parallel with Shore Road, overlooking Belfast Lough, bounded to the road by a high hedge with a tarmac parking area to the north-west and a large grassed lawn to the sea-facing side.

The building first appears on the third edition Ordnance Survey map of 1902. Valuation Revisions of 1894 record the property as a house, offices and land occupied by Norman Victor Cooke and leased from W. Roome, valued at £40 10 shillings. In the late revisions from the 1930s the occupier is listed as Norman Victorbrooke and the lessor as W.J. Roome.

This is an unspoiled and attractive example of a type of dwelling representative of early twentieth-century development along the eastern shore of Belfast Lough, although better examples of the period exist.