9 Marine Parade, Whitehead, Carrickfergus, Co Antrim, BT38 9QP

9 Marine Parade is an attached mid-terrace two-bay two-storey house built in 1870, located west of Marine Parade in Whitehead. It is the second house from the left in a terrace of four built under the direction of architect Timothy Hevey as the first stage of Whitehead's development as a seaside town.

The house is rectangular on plan with a lower two-storey rear return to the north-west, shared with the adjacent property. The roofs are pitched and natural slated with deep overhanging eaves. Replacement concrete chimneys with clay pots sit on the south party wall, while a replacement brick chimney and timber bargeboards are on the return. The walls are smooth rendered over a projecting plinth.

Windows are square-headed replacement timber-framed top-hung casements with painted masonry sills. The principal elevation faces east and contains two windows at first floor. At ground floor there is a pair of segmental-headed windows in chamfered surround with shared sills to the left, and a round-arched-headed chamfered entrance opening to the right. The entrance is fitted with a square-headed replacement uPVC glazed door with transom light, flanked by a colonette with foliated capital shared with the entrance to the adjacent house.

The south elevation is abutted by the neighbouring property to the left. The west elevation is roughcast and contains a single window at each floor to the right, with a shared return at the left containing small windows at each floor, and three openings to each floor at the south. The north elevation is abutted by the property to the right.

The house is set within a garden to the east bounded to the road and adjoining gardens by rendered walling, accessed through a modern pedestrian steel gate supported by square pillars. An enclosed yard to the rear is accessed through a segmental-headed vertically sheeted timber door from a shared rear alley, with further garden beyond the alley to the west. Gutters are cast-iron half-round with round downpipes.

The house was built in 1870 following developments that transformed Whitehead: the road from Carrickfergus to Larne was completed in 1854, and the Belfast and Northern Counties Railway extended to Larne in 1864 with a halt at Whitehead to serve the local community. These developments realised the area's scenic attraction and leisure potential, heralding the development boom of the late nineteenth century. The buildings are first shown on the third edition Ordnance Survey map of 1902. Valuation Revisions from the 1920s identify the house as a house and yard, valued at £20. Although the block of four forms a well-conceived group that retains its original unity and contributes positively to the Conservation Area, this individual house is plainer than the end-terrace houses and is of insufficient interest to merit listing singly or for group interest.