54-56 Harbour Road, Carnlough, Ballymena, Co Antrim, BT44 0EU

A two-storey three-bay house with rendered walls, slated roof, and a pair of shop-fronts to the ground floor, forming part of a terrace of six houses. Main entrance faces east. Front elevation: Roof of Bangor blue slates in regular courses with smooth rendered chimneys at each end of the ridge; two flush rooflights, new insertions. Wall roughcast using pebbles, with black-painted quoins to the extremities. Cast iron gutter and downpipes. Three windows to first floor, in raised cement surrounds: timber sliding sash, vertically hung, 6 over 6, with horns, replacements; stone cills, painted. Ground floor: shop front to left composed of fixed three-light timber window with segmental headed transom lights, set on concrete cill, between panelled pilasters surmounted by a panelled frieze with dentil cornice; to right, new six-panelled wooden door with plain rectangular fanlight, with segmental topped doorhead; shop front to right comprising central door recessed between flanking windows each two-light to front, detailed as previous; surround as previous without dentils, but with ornamental wooden paterae to each pilaster; door panelled and glazed, new, with rectangular fanlight. The shopfronts and front door are not historically correct but approximations of original ones. ear elevation has wall only one storey high, extended out from original line of building, with roof of asbestos slates in regular courses sweeping down from original ridge to meet it; three flush roof lights, new; PVC gutter and downpipe. Rear wall smooth cement rendered: in centre, double doors timber panelled and glazed with small panes, new, 1986; rectangular window to each side, four-pane timber casement with segmental head to top panes, translucent glass to window left of doors; to each side beyond: flat roofed projecting block, walls of blockwork smooth rendered; asphalt roof covering; painted wooden fascia; PVC gutter and downpipes. To right-hand side, flight of wooden steps up to roof of right-hand block and leading to a monopitch bay breaking through main roof with asbestos tiles to side of bay. Concrete paved area across rear of building; steps up to terraced yard, with pink-tinted pavings. South boundary of yard formed by whitened rubble wall of neighbouring buildings; west boundary to High Street formed by timber hoarding on concrete block base; north boundary formed by adjoining two-storey building, its wall partly broken through, labelled ‘emergency exit’ and leading into semi-derelict area with ledged wooden door giving access to the street. The rear of 54-56 Harbour Road thus retains no original features or any features of architectural interest or quality. SETTING: The building stands in a terrace of six houses, within the built-up area of the village, facing directly onto the pavement, with an unobstructed view to the harbour across the main road.