24 Scotch Quarter, Carrickfergus, Co Antrim, BT38 7DP

24 Scotch Quarter is an early 19th-century house, probably dating from the mid to late 1830s. It appears for the first time on the Ordnance Survey map of 1857, though a small cottage occupied the site earlier, shown on the 1832 map. The building was used as offices in recent years before being acquired by its present owner. It stands within a conservation area in the town centre, facing the main road and overlooking a public park with open views to the sea.

The house is a three-storey structure built of smooth cement render, lined and blocked, and painted cream, with raised quoins to the left-hand extremity and a projecting plinth. The roof is covered with Bangor blue slates in regular courses, with three chimneys—one to each extremity and one at an intermediate position on the ridge. The roof is contained by a gable upstand to the left and continues with the roof of no. 26 to the right. A moulded cast iron gutter with cast iron downpipe runs to the right-hand extremity.

The south elevation, which faces the main road, is five windows wide to the upper floors. The main entrance is recessed in a segmental arched opening with a continuous roll moulded surround. It comprises a rectangular timber four-panel door, original, set between panelled pilasters and surmounted by a radial fanlight with a plain rendered continuous border; a modern letterbox has been added to the door. The ground floor has three windows to the left of the doorway and a segmental arched coach entrance to the right, which contains a pair of ledged timber doors with a small wicket door and a drip mould over. Ground floor windows are rectangular timber sliding sash, 1 over 1, with horns, set in raised moulded surrounds with projecting stone cills. The windows to the two upper floors are modern rectangular timber fixed lights with top-hung vents, replacements for the original sashes; all have surrounds matching those on the ground floor. An iron railed enclosure, now concreted over with scrolling iron railings in poor condition mounted on plinth walls, fronts the building. A concrete path leads to the front doorway, and a rendered wall projects from the front façade to separate the main entrance from the coach entrance.

The west elevation comprises the blank west gable of the main block, rendered in smooth cement and painted cream to the ground floor, with a three-storey side of a rear return extending to the left with similar render. This return has one window to the second floor and one to the first floor above a ground floor lean-to glazed roofed projection, now partly obscured by modern diagonal fencing. These are rectangular timber sliding sash windows, 6 over 3, with horns, plain reveals, and projecting stone cills. A two-storey side wall of an extension to the rear return extends further to the left; this is a blank smooth rendered wall painted cream with PVC gutter and downpipe. The rear wall of the main block to the right of the rear return has one window to each floor: timber sashes with horns, 6 over 6 to the second floor and 6 over 6 with margin lights to the first floor. A small ocular window lights the attic level.

The rear elevation shows the main block with a coachway underneath, carried on deep wooden beams. The walls within the coachway are red brick whitened, with plastered underside and lath, some of which is damaged. A gabled rear return projects forward to the right. The main block has one window to the first floor, a later rectangular timber fixed light casement with top-hung vent, and one window to the second floor, a rectangular timber sliding sash, 6 over 6, without horns. The rear return is three-storeys and gabled with smooth cement render to the main gable. Its east side is red brick whitening from a later extension, with red brick gable flush with the main gable. The east side elevation of the return has five windows—two to each of the lower storeys—all rectangular timber sliding sash, 2 over 2, with horns. A later fire escape door stands beside one second-floor window. The red brick extension gable has one window to the ground floor and one to the second floor, matching the side windows, though the original first-floor window has been replaced by a modern fire escape door. The main gable of the return has two small windows to the attic, rectangular timber sliding sash, 6 over 3, with horns; a modern fire escape door to the first floor; and an original sash window to the ground floor, 1 over 1, with horns. A short two-storey gabled extension projects at the right-hand corner of the return, built of red brick with smooth cement render, now partly spalling. It has a flush wooden door, two sashed timber windows, 6 over 3, with horns, later timber windows as fixed lights, and projecting stone cills in poor condition. The extension has a blank end gable and a PVC downpipe to the main gable of the return.

The rear yard is concreted over. Beyond it stands a two-storey outbuilding of smooth cement render, forming part of an outbuilding complex connected to the house to the west, no. 22 Scotch Quarter. The building originally had handsome exterior appearance and retains its original staircases, but has lost a number of other original features to both exterior and interior and has suffered alterations which detract from its original character. The rear of the property is encircled by buildings of no apparent architectural quality and poor outbuildings and walls which spoil the rear setting. The building forms the end of a terrace development, with another terrace immediately to its east beyond an alleyway closed by a modern railed steel gate and screen.