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

Farmhill is a detached three-bay two-storey house in Classical style, located on the west side of Woodburn Road in Carrickfergus. The building's construction history is complex: according to architectural historian Charles Brett, an original house dates to around 1795. However, the present structure appears to have been substantially enlarged and remodelled between 1832 and 1857, taking its current form during the mid-19th century. The 1836 Valuation records both an "old house" and a "new house" on the site, valued together at £18.16.9, suggesting contemporary rebuilding work. By 1859, Griffith's Valuation listed "Farmhill" as a "house, offices and plantation" occupied by Stewart Dunne and valued at £30, with outbuildings valued separately.

The house 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, timber bargeboards, and rendered chimneys with replacement clay pots. The walls are smooth rendered over a projecting plinth with an ogee plinth-course and raised pilasters to 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 by Tuscan columns supporting a simple entablature; a single window above at first floor level features a continuous sill course. The central bay contains single windows at each floor, while the right bay, also projecting, contains two windows at each floor. Additional single windows appear at each floor to the north and south, all with continuous sill courses. The east elevation is abutted at right by rendered walling enclosing a yard.

The south elevation of the main house contains three windows at ground floor within smooth banded architraves with recessed aproning below the sills, and three windows at first floor with a continuous sill course. A north-west return abutts the main structure; its south elevation is abutted at right by the extension. An exposed section of the return shows, at ground floor left, a timber-framed 2/2 sliding sash window flanked by a uPVC casement window, with two square-headed replacement uPVC entrance doors at right, and four windows at first floor. The return's north elevation contains, at ground floor, two windows at centre flanked by replacement doors, with five windows at first floor.

A two-storey outbuilding to the west features a pitched natural slate roof. Its east elevation is partially abutted at centre by the return, with an exposed section containing two timber-framed windows at ground floor and a timber-framed entrance (now blocked) flanked at right by a single uPVC window at first floor. The exposed wall at right contains three windows at ground floor and four windows at first floor. The south elevation displays a replacement uPVC glazed door at ground floor surmounted by a window at first floor, abutted at right by the yard wall. The west elevation is abutted on right by a single-storey mono-pitched outbuilding and at centre by a two-storey stairwell; its exposed wall at left contains a window within a Tudor-arch-headed recess at ground floor left and two windows at right, with a single window at first floor right. The exposed wall at right contains four windows at ground floor and two windows with a timber-sheeted door at first floor.

Current windows throughout are predominantly square-headed uPVC casements with painted masonry sills. Cast-iron ogee gutters with round downpipes provide rainwater goods. The property 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 site is bound to the north by rubble walling and to the west by brick and rubble walling. Access from Woodburn Road is through double octagonal rendered piers with finial coping connected by fretted timber screens, with a timber fence defining the boundary.

The earlier structure is documented in the Ordnance Survey Memoirs as the residence of Stewart Dunne Esquire, described as "pleasantly situated on the Woodburn Road" in "a lawn of about 6 acres which is thickly planted." The memoirs note that Farmhill was "of the cottage form...part of it is a 2-storey house and part 1-storey," built about 45 years prior (from the 1830s writing) by the Reverend John Savage, a Presbyterian minister. Dunne had acquired the property ten years before the survey. By 1894, Valuation Revisions recorded the occupier as John Jellie, with Elizabeth Dunne listed as lessor. The building was valued at £32, with a separate smaller property on the site—"house and office" occupied by William Simms—valued at £1.5s.