Farmhill, 116 Woodburn Road, Carrickfergus, Co Antrim, BT38 9AB

Farmhill is a detached three-bay two-storey house in Classical style, built around 1850, situated on the west side of Woodburn Road. The building is rectangular in plan with a two-storey return to the north-west abutted by a two-storey outbuilding, and an extension to the south-west.

The roof is hipped natural slate with deep overhanging eaves and timber bargeboards. The chimneys are rendered with replacement clay pots. The walls are smooth rendered over a projecting plinth with an ogee plinth-course, and raised pilasters define the corners.

The principal elevation faces east. At the left, a projecting bay contains a square-headed nine-panelled timber entrance door with bronze furniture, flanked at left and right by Tuscan columns supporting a simple entablature. A single window sits at first-floor level above, with a continuous sill course. The central bay has a single window at each floor. The right bay projects and contains two windows at each floor. Single windows appear at each floor on the north and south sides, with continuous sill courses throughout. The right side is abutted by rendered walling enclosing a yard. Windows are square-headed replacement uPVC casements with painted masonry sills.

The south elevation contains three windows at ground-floor level set in smooth banded architraves with recessed aproning below the sills, and three windows at first-floor level with a continuous sill course.

The south elevation of the return is abutted at right by the extension. Its exposed section contains, at ground-floor level on the left, a timber-framed 2/2 sliding sash window flanked to the right by a uPVC casement window. Two square-headed replacement uPVC entrance doors are positioned to the right. Four windows appear at first-floor level. The north elevation of the return contains at ground-floor level two central windows flanked left and right by replacement doors, and five windows at first-floor level.

The west elevation is abutted at left by the return and at right by the extension, which consists of roughcast walling at ground-floor level and a modern uPVC sunroom at first-floor level, accessed by an external steel spiral staircase. The north gable contains a single window at each floor on the right and is abutted at right by the return.

The outbuilding to the west has a pitched natural-slated roof. Its east elevation is abutted at centre by the return. The exposed wall at left contains two timber-framed windows at ground floor flanked at right by an entrance (now blocked), and a single uPVC window at first-floor level on the right. The exposed wall at right contains three windows at ground-floor level on the left flanked by a uPVC glazed entrance door and a further window, with four windows at first-floor level. The south elevation contains a replacement uPVC glazed door at ground-floor level surmounted by a window at first-floor level, abutted at right by a wall to an enclosed yard and at left by rubble walling. The west elevation is abutted on the right by a single-storey mono-pitched outbuilding and abutted at centre by a two-storey stairwell. The exposed wall at left contains a window within a Tudor-arch-headed recess at ground-floor level on the left and two windows to the right, with a single window at first-floor level on the right. The exposed wall at right contains four windows at ground-floor level and two windows with a timber-sheeted door at first-floor level, and is abutted at left by a rubble boundary wall.

The building is set within extensive private gardens and farmland, with an enclosed yard to the south-west and a larger yard to the north containing a lean-to farm building. The property is bounded to the north by rubble walling and to the west by brick and rubble walling. The boundary to Woodburn Road features a timber fence with access through double octagonal rendered piers with finial coping connected by fretted timber screens.

The gutters are cast-iron ogee gutters with round downpipes.