Maritime Cottage, 2 Belfast Road, Carrickfergus, BT38 8BU

Detached symmetrical three-bay one-and-a-half-storey house, erected c.1820, facing west and located to the east side of Belfast Road, Carrickfergus. Rectangular-on-plan, two-storey return to rear, single-storey extension to south gable. Pitched natural slate roof, blue/black clay ridge tiles, rendered chimneystacks to gable ends with octagonal clay pots. Deep overhanging eaves with plain bargeboards. Ruled-and-lined rendered walling with shallow rendered plinth and first floor cill course. Square-headed 2/2 timber sliding sash windows with masonry cills unless otherwise stated. Principal (west) elevation has central principal entrance; paired windows each with hoodmould to flanking bays. Central wall-head dormer to first floor with round-headed 2/2 sliding sash window; dormer to each side (all sides glazed). Abutted to right by flat roof garage, to left by rendered wall with saddleback coping and timber sheeted door. Four-panel entrance door (top panels moulded), glazed fanlight and sidelights recessed within segmental headed opening with splayed reveals; original ironmongery. North gable comprises two windows to first floor and is abutted by boundary wall to right. Rear (east) elevation has central rendered two-storey return with window to flanking bays. Left side is abutted by single-storey flat roof extension. Return has replacement three pane window to ground floor, one to first floor (as original). Right cheek has two pane replacement window to ground floor and one original to first floor; left cheek has replacement window and door to ground floor, first floor blank. South gable has two windows to first floor, abutted by single-storey flat roof extension. Extension is detailed as main block with timber casement window to each face and uPVC rainwater goods. Site is bound to Belfast Road by roughcast boundary wall with saddleback coping, central square rendered pillars, pyramidal caps and ball finials; cast metal gate. Vehicular access from Rodgers Quay through square roughcast pillars, pyramidal caps and timber sheeted gates; garden to east side of driveway. Double garage extension to south, the rear wall forming part of the boundary to Belfast Road, with timber sheeted door. Roof: Pitched natural slate Walling: Ruled-and-lined render Windows: Square-headed 2/2 timber sliding sashes RWG: uPVC