306 Middle Road, Islandmagee, Larne, Co Antrim, BT40 3TG

The building at 306 Middle Road, Islandmagee, is a two-storey house constructed between 1860 and 1879. Originally part of a terrace of cottages and formerly Ballymoney School, it now forms a single property with the adjacent number 304. The main entrance faces south.

The south facade features a lean-to porch enclosing the entrance doorway on the left, with four windows to the right of the ground floor. Above, there are two gabled dormers. The roof is covered with Bangor blue slates, continuous with the roof of the adjacent number 302, and has a slight overhang at the gable end. A single chimney, rendered in a smooth, unpainted finish with modern terracotta pots, rises from the ridge. Cast iron gutters and downpipes are present, along with timber barge boards to the dormers. The walls are roughly cast. A later timber-framed, glazed porch on a concrete block base wall, considered an inappropriate addition, was constructed at least by 1960. The windows are timber, rectangular in style, with a top-hung vent above a fixed light, arranged as 2 over 2, with vertical divisions. Ground floor windows were replaced in 1991, likely substituting original small-paned, probably sash, windows. Stone cills are painted black. A blocked original doorway to number 306 is visible on the extreme right-hand side of the front wall. Further to the right, set back, is a small single-storey gabled extension with a lower ridge line, its roof matching the main house. This extension has a cast iron gutter and downpipe, and a timber ledged door. The east gables of the main house and the extension are blank. The rear elevation features four new flush rooflights and three timber fixed light windows with top-hung vents. A flat-roofed return on the north side includes a projecting porch, and a large rectangular timber window with a top-hung vent over a fixed pane. A detached gabled garage with white roughcast walls is located nearby.

The building is part of a terrace of cottages attached to the side of a Methodist Church, set back at an angle to the main road, and located in a rural setting visible from the road. It appears on the Ordnance Survey map of 1902-3. Historical photographs in the Islandmagee Methodist Church show the building without dormers in 1940, but with dormers added by 1960. The property was delisted on April 28, 2000. The ownership category is Church – Methodist.