26-28 Harbour Road, Carnlough, Ballymena, Co Antrim, BT44 0EU

A three-storey building, three windows wide but not symmetrically arranged, with a lower two-storey wing to one side containing a vehicular entrance. The main entrance faces east.

The entrance elevation features a roof of Bangor blue slates in regular courses between gable copings of stone or smooth render, with dark-toned ridge tiles. Two chimneys at the extremities are smooth cement rendered with plain block cornices and no pots. The wall is smooth cement rendered and painted white, with a black-painted plinth-like band along the base and projecting eaves course. Rusticated quoins mark the extremities. Cast iron guttering and downpipes are present.

Windows are rectangular timber sliding sash, vertically hung, with 6 over 6 glazing and horns, set in exposed frames within plain reveals with projecting stone cills. Modern scrolling wrought iron grilles are mounted on the ground floor cills. The central entrance, which replaces two original doorways, is set in a fluted pilastered surround with ornamented brackets carrying a cornice. Below a deep fascia sits a double door, panelled with blind sidelights in narrow timber pilaster surrounds and plain rectangular fanlights. An iron bracket for a shop sign is mounted on the wall above the main entrance.

The lower two-storey wing to the right has a roof slated in the same manner, continuous with an adjoining building. One chimney at the right-hand extremity is smooth cement rendered with a plain block cornice and two pots. Cast iron guttering is present. The walling is similar to the main block, in the same plane. The ground floor contains a vehicle entrance set within a voussoired elliptical arched opening with block jambs, containing an arched timber tongued and grooved sheeted panel appearing as a pair of double doors. The first floor window above matches those on the main block.

The south gable, where it projects above the adjoining building, is smooth cement rendered. The north gable, where it projects above the two-storey wing, is likewise smooth cement rendered.

On the rear elevation of the main front block, the roof is slated as described for the entrance front, with a swept dormer to the left-hand side. The dormer window opening is now closed with concrete blockwork. A tall square rendered chimney with two pots rises at the base of the roof. The original rear wall is now obscured by a modern extension with a hipped roof of synthetic slates containing modern rooflights. The north wall of this extension is concrete blockwork, which rises at the west to a taller Mansard-roofed rear block facing onto High Street.

The building stands on the main street of the village within a terrace, facing directly onto the pavement. The extreme rear of the property extends beyond the main front block and faces onto High Street. The rear block facing onto Bridge Street is two-storey, five windows wide on the first floor and five windows plus a door to the left on the ground floor. The wall is smooth rendered and painted white with black-painted quoins at the extremities. PVC guttering and downpipes are present. All windows are timber sliding sash, vertically hung with horns, featuring 1 over 1 glazing with a vertical glazing bar to each; all are replacements with painted concrete cills. The door is painted wood, two-leaf and panelled, and new. The roof features Bangor blue slates in regular courses; three attic dormers are gabled with slated roofs and timber sliding sash windows to their fronts with replacement glazing featuring one vertical glazing bar each side. The south end is abutted by a neighbouring building with a lower ridge line. The north gable is of exposed concrete block, inappropriate to the setting, with a canted face and Mansard roof profile in white-painted timber barges. This rear building with its frontage on Bridge Street is not included in the listing of 26–28 Harbour Road.