135 Islandmagee Road, Whitehead, Co Antrim, BT38 9NS

An attached two-bay two-storey end-terrace, built around 1840 and located on the east side of Islandmagee Road in Whitehead. The house is part of a nineteenth-century terrace of three dwellings that occupies a prominent position and contributes to a well-preserved group of architectural merit.

The building is rectangular in plan with a single-storey gabled porch to the north-west. Pitched roofs are covered with natural slate, and red brick chimneys with original clay pots sit on the party wall and gable. The walling is ruled-and-lined painted render. Windows are timber-framed 2/2 sliding sash, divided horizontally with margin lights and painted masonry sills. The principal elevation faces west and comprises a window to each bay at ground and first floor. The left bay is abutted at ground floor by the porch, which contains a single window; a window to the south; and a vertically-sheeted timber entrance door to the north. The north gable contains a single window at first floor right. The east elevation has a vertically-sheeted timber door and an enlarged timber casement window at ground floor right, with two windows at first floor (without margin lights). The south elevation is abutted by an adjoining property. The house sits within a garden to the west, with an enclosed yard to the east. The boundary to the road to the west comprises harled rubble walling supporting square gate pillars, which have been repaired with brick. Gutters are cast-iron half-round with round downpipes.

Despite some interior alterations, the house retains many original features. A building first appears on the second edition Ordnance Survey map of 1857. Griffith's Valuation of 1859 records a house valued at £1, occupied by Eliza Pinkerton with lessor William English. The Valuation Revisions of 1886 record the occupier as Mrs [Marshall?], revised in 1894 to Paul Carson, with the lessor revised to Gordon Butler in 1893. In 1886, two other houses appear listed below this entry, likely corresponding to the neighbouring properties. Each was valued at £1. The final entry in 1908 records the property as vacant. The extent of listing includes the house and front walling.