Coastguard Cottages, 14 Belfast Road, Carrickfergus, Co. Antrim, BT38 8BU

Attached single-bay two-storey terraced former coastguard cottage, built c.1864, located to the south of Belfast Road, Carrickfergus; fifth from left (east) in a group of seven. Rectangular-on-pan; two-storey return to rear with cat-slide roof. Single-storey lean-to entrance porch to north. Roof is pitched natural slate; blue/black clay ridge tiles, cogged brick eaves with few cast-iron downpipes remaining; square profile replacement uPVC rainwater goods. Roughcast rendered corbelled chimneystack to east party wall; decorative clay pots. Walls are roughcast rendered with cogged brick string course and smooth rendered platband over, (north elevation only); smooth rendered plinth. Windows are timber casements with painted masonry cills (unless otherwise stated.) Principal (north) elevation is abutted by a single-storey extension to right with slated lean-to roof (shared with No.16 HB22/07/021F); exposed section to left has 6/6 timber casement at ground floor; dipartite 4/4 casements at first floor. East gable is abutted by No.12 (HB22/07/021D.) South (rear) elevation is abutted to left by two-storey return with slated cat-slide roof; exposed section has single 6/6 timber casement window to each floor. West gable is abutted by No.16 (HB22/07/021F.) South return is detailed as main block with two roof lights (shared with HB22/07/021F.) South gable is blank; central timber 6/6 dipartite casements to right cheek with glazed timber panelled door to right; timber sheeted door to left. Set parallel to the Belfast Road, Carrickfergus, the coastguard cottages are accessed from the east with parking to north and garden to south. Bound to road-edge by roughcast rendered wall with saddleback coping. Roof covering: Natural slate. Walling: Roughcast render. Windows: 6/6 timber casements with painted masonry cills (unless otherwise stated.) Rainwater goods: Few cast-iron downpipes remaining; also square profile replacement uPVC.