Castle Chester, 34 Marine Parade, Whitehead, Carrickfergus, Co Antrim, BT38 9QN

Attached six-bay two-storey house, built c.1800, located to the west side of Marine Parade. Rectangular-on-plan with attached houses to north-east. Roof is pitched and artificial slated; simple concrete skews; roughcast chimneys to gables have replacement pots. Walls are roughcast rendered with rusticated quoins and brick corbelled eaves. Windows are exposed box timber framed 2/2 sliding sash (horizontally divided) with painted masonry sills (windows larger at ground floor). Principal elevation faces south and consists of six openings at each floor arranged about a round arch headed opening containing timber sheeted entrance door with decorative strap hinges; plain glazed fanlight. West gable is blank. North elevation is abutted on left by adjoining house. Exposed wall contains, at right, two windows at each floor; timber sheeted entrance door to centre; transom light; sidelight to left; at left, 6/3 sliding sash window at ground floor, 6/6 sliding sash window to stairwell, small casement window at first floor. East gable is roughcast and contains two windows at each floor. Set within garden to east, stepped down to Marine Parade, accessed through rendered walling. To south, garden enclosed by rubble walling; pitched single-storey timber and rubble outbuildings. Accessed from west through rubble walling containing arched gateway, from ruin of Castle Chichester. To north, attached two-storey house and outbuildings. Roof: Pitched artificial slate Walling: Rough rendered Windows: Exposed box timber framed 2/2 sliding sash (divided horizontally); painted masonry sills RWG: Cast-iron half-round gutters with round downpipes