87 Garron Road, Carnlough, Ballymena, Co Antrim, BT44 0JU

87 Garron Road is a mid-19th century terrace house built in 1849–50 as one of four identical Coastguard Cottages. It was built by Lady Londonderry to designs by Charles Campbell and stands in a rural coastal location on the seaward side of the main coast road near Carnlough, County Antrim.

The house is a single-storey symmetrical three-bay structure in plain Tudor Revival style, constructed of basalt rubble with rendered reveals. The entrance elevation faces west and contains three bays with one window to each side of a central projecting porch. The roof is laid with Bangor blue slates in regular courses with dark-toned ridge tiles. Twin chimneys of basalt rubble with plain block cornices flank the building; the right-hand chimney retains one original octagonal stoneware pot alongside a modern replacement, while the left-hand chimney has two modern pots, both chimneys being shared with the adjoining house.

The windows are rectangular timber two-light casements with wooden glazing bars fixed to the outside face to give the appearance of margin lights. They are set in roughly rendered reveals with flat arches to the head and projecting basalt cills. The porch projects from the main wall and has a similar basalt rubble construction. Its roof is slated as the main roof, with shaped kneelers to the gable. The gable contains a Gothic arched doorway with a rectangular ledged timber door surmounted by a Gothic arched fanlight with intersecting glazing bars, all framed in rectangular Tudor style drip moulding. The spandrel is painted black with jointing picked out in white.

The rear elevation features a roof with two gabled dormers containing rectangular PVC windows with white-chippings dry-dash rendering on the dormer walls. A later lean-to extension obscures the original rear wall; this has a slated roof with one modern rooflight, rendered dry-dash walls with white chippings, timber eaves board, and PVC guttering. A raised cement-surfaced terrace lies outside the rear door.

The house retains most of its original appearance to the entrance front despite some degradation of its wider setting. It forms part of an interesting group of four identical cottages. The building stands set back slightly from the main road with a small front garden surfaced in gravel, bounded by smooth cement-rendered walls. To the rear is a corrugated iron shed with a rough grassy plot leading to the shoreline. The extent of listing includes the house and boundary walls.