8 Marine Parade, Whitehead, Carrickfergus, Co Antrim, BT38 9QP

Attached end-of-terrace two-bay two-storey house, built 1870, located to west of Marine Parade. L-shaped on plan with lower two-storey rear return to south-west; attached modern timber-sheeted garage to south. Roofs are pitched and hipped natural slate with deep overhanging eaves on exposed rafter tails; terracotta ridge tiles; timber bargeboards supported on corbelled brackets; replacement concrete chimneys with clay pots; roughcast chimney to return. Walls are smooth rendered over projecting plinth. Windows are square-headed timber framed 1/1 sliding sash; painted masonry sills. Principal elevation faces east. At right, projecting gabled bay contains pair of round-arched-headed windows at ground floor (divided by rendered collonette) in chamfered surround; pair of segmental-headed windows at first floor (shared sill). Left bay is recessed and contains single window at first floor; re-entrant angle has timber framed canted porch on rendered plinth; overhanging hipped roof supported on decorative timber supports; double-leaf timber panelled entrance doors; porch glazed above timber panelled aproning. South elevation contains pair of windows (shared sills) at first floor; abutted at ground floor by garage. Abutted at left by return. West elevation is pebble-dashed contains single window at each floor left. Abutted at right by return. North elevation abutted by HB22.06.023B. Return South elevation of return contains replacement timber entrance door flanked to either side by window at ground floor; three windows at first floor. West elevation contains single window at ground floor right. North elevation contains central replacement vertically sheeted timber door flanked at left by two windows at each floor, at right, timber door surmounted by window at first floor; exposed wall. Set within garden to south and east bounded to road by timber fencing. Enclosed yard to rear accessed through segmental-headed vertically sheeted timber door from shared rear alley. Further garden beyond alley to west. Roof Natural slate Walling Smooth render Windows Square-headed timber-framed 1/1 sliding sash; painted masonry sills RWG Cast-iron half-round gutters with round downpipes