Methodist Church, Balmoral Avenue, Whitehead, Carrickfergus, Co Antrim, BT38 9QA

Detached single-cell Victorian Methodist Church with simple Arts and Crafts styling, dated 1900, located to the east side of Balmoral Avenue. Church consists of rectangular nave, attached meeting room to north-west, porch to south-west and single-storey flat roofed extension to north-east. Roofs are pitched and natural slated (hipped to NE); leaded verges; clay ridge tiles and finials gables; smooth rendered chimneys with original pots. Walls are roughcast over smooth rendered plinth; splayed buttresses to corners. Windows are square-headed timber-framed casements; leaded stained glass to central section, unless otherwise stated. Principal elevation faces west; three-window wide nave at centre (each separated by buttresses) abutted at right by single-storey gabled porch; pointed-arched-headed window in smooth rendered surround surmounted by signage ‘Methodist Church 1900’ and hood-moulding with label stops; square-headed timber vertically sheeted entrance doors to north and south. Abutted at left by gabled meeting room containing large pointed-arched-headed stained glass window in smooth reveal surmounted by hood-moulding. North elevation abutted by supporting accommodation; square-headed chamfered entrance at centre containing double-leaf timber doors with transom light flanked at left by plain glazed window. Abutted at left by extension. East elevation consists of five-window wide nave (each separated by buttresses); blank to single bay left and right of centre. Abutted at right by extension. Exposed wall at first floor has, at left, wall-head-dormer with timber bargeboard containing segmental-headed timber framed 1/1 sliding sash window; at right, segmental-headed window. South gable contains group of three windows (smaller at centre with fully stained glass); each has hood-moulding with label stops; surmounted at centre by oculus with cusped light and hood-moulding. Abutted at left by porch. Set within churchyard with modern hall to north-east. To west, site is accessed through double steel gates and secondary pedestrian gates to left, supported on modern square rock-faced concrete pillars and boundary wall, continuous to north. To south and east, wire fencing encloses site; manse to south. Roof Natural slate Walling Smooth render Windows Square-headed timber-framed casements; leaded stained glass to central section RWG Cast-iron ogee gutters and round downpipes