38-40 Harbour Road, Carnlough, Ballymena, Co Antrim, BT44 0EU

A two-storey, three-bay house forming part of a terrace of six houses at Carnlough, with a shop-front at ground floor level. The building faces east onto the street, with its main entrance at this elevation.

The front elevation features a roof of Bangor blue slates laid in regular courses, with chimneys at each end. The wall is rendered and finished with dry dash of white limestone chippings. Raised smooth rendered quoins emphasise the left-hand extremity, and there is a smooth rendered plinth with a projecting smooth rendered eaves course. Cast iron guttering and downpipe are present. The first-floor windows are rectangular timber sliding sash, 1 over 1 with horns, set in smooth rendered reveals with projecting cills. The ground floor contains one similar window and two larger modern rectangular timber shop windows with fixed lights. One shop window is combined with a glazed and panelled rectangular door to the shop, which has a plain rectangular fanlight. The original house door is a rectangular timber panelled door with a plain fanlight. A post box is incorporated into the left-hand shop window.

The south elevation is a blank gable, rendered to match the front, with a chimney at the apex.

The rear elevation presents a two-storey facade with an asbestos slated roof in regular courses and rendered chimneys at each end. The back wall of the house is roughcast using crushed stones with cement render borders at the extremities and below the eaves. The elevation is punctuated by three modern flush rooflights and fitted with PVC guttering and cast iron downpipe.

A central two-storey lean-to extension projects from the back wall. To its left is a single-storey lean-to return with dry-dash finish of limestone chippings, PVC guttering and downpipe, and a perspex roof. This return contains a modern varnished teak panelled door with patterned translucent glass in its side wall. The extension itself has two windows to each floor: timber fixed lights with top-hung vents to the first floor, and timber fixed lights with casements to the ground floor, all with concrete cills and an asbestos slated roof with PVC guttering and cast iron downpipe. To the right of the projecting extension at ground floor level is a single-storey return in painted brick with a corrugated asbestos roof and stained ledged doors, all of 20th-century date.

Concrete steps lead from the back door to the yard, finished in concrete paving. The boundary wall to the north is dry-dashed with limestone chippings. To the south is a painted rendered wall with modern double pine slatted doors in a rectangular steel frame.

To the rear of the yard, marking the west boundary, stands a gabled building known as 55 and 57 High Street. This has a roof of Bangor blue slates in regular courses and a wall facing the yard rendered with dry dash of limestone chippings, with a smooth rendered vertical strip to the left-hand extremity and smooth rendered plinth. A PVC gutter and downpipe are centrally positioned between two doorways. Double doors to the left and a single door to the right are of teak with narrow glazed panels and new brass handles, set in lugged cement render surrounds. Concrete ramps lead to each doorway. The interior accessed by the left-hand door contains a suspended ceiling, plastered walls and a concrete floor with carpet. The south gable is blank and smooth rendered with a chimney at the apex topped with a cream earthenware pot.

The elevation toward High Street comprises two-storey terrace houses with the same roofing as described above. The wall is smooth rendered with cast iron guttering and downpipe. No. 57 High Street has two first-floor windows of timber sliding sash, vertically hung, 1 over 1 with horns (replacements), and two similar windows to the ground floor with a panelled painted wooden door between (replacement with new brass handle). No. 55 High Street has one first-floor window as described and one similar window to the ground floor to the right of the door.

The building stands at the south end of the terrace in the built-up area of the village, facing directly onto the pavement with an unobstructed view across the main road to the harbour.