10 Glenoe Village, Glenoe, Larne, Co Antrim

10 Glenoe Village is a small two-storey gabled house of vernacular Georgian style, forming the right-hand end of a terrace of four houses that steps up the hillside. Built between 1820 and 1839, it appears on the 1832 Ordnance Survey map and functioned as a public house in the early twentieth century before being restored as a private dwelling in 1992–3 by the Hearth housing association, who added the rear return.

The house stands on the east side of the main street in Glenoe village, facing directly onto the street at the top end of the terrace. Its setting is pleasant and contributes to an attractive and important local group. The structure displays the proportions and details characteristic of Georgian vernacular architecture, retaining the essence of its original exterior appearance and some original interior features.

The west elevation, facing the street, comprises three windows across. The roof is laid with Bangor Blue slates in regular courses with overhanging verges and eaves, finished with dark-toned ridge tiles. Two chimneys, one on each gable, are whitened and constructed of brick with projecting brick cornices, each fitted with two stoneware pots. The walling is rubble stonework, limewashed and whitened, with a projecting eaves course featuring a white-painted wooden fascia. Cast iron guttering with a circular cast iron downpipe runs along the left-hand side.

Windows throughout are rectangular timber sliding sashes, vertically hung and painted green, with exposed sash boxes. The majority feature horns, though the first-floor right window and ground-floor left window are without horns. Most windows are 6 over 3 panes, except the right-hand ground-floor window which is 2 over 2. All have wooden lintels painted green, whitened reveals to the sides, and projecting concrete cills painted green.

The central ground-floor doorway is set between two windows. It comprises a rectangular timber ledged door in a recessed moulded and chamfered wooden surround, fitted with a modern iron latch handle in traditional style and modern plain brass letterbox. The entrance is approached via a step of artificial stone and concrete paviors, with rubble stone paved areas to each side bounded by concrete kerbing.

The north elevation shows the upper part of the north gable visible above the roof of the adjoining house, which steps downhill. A blank side wall of the rear return is set back to the left, finished with cement render in a smoother finish than the entrance front and painted white, with cast iron guttering and downpipe.

The east or rear elevation comprises a two-storey rear wall of the main block with a central projecting gabled return, roofed to match the entrance front. The main block walling is as the entrance front, while the gable of the return has a smoother rendered finish. To the left of the return is a cast iron gutter; each floor has one window detailed as the front, sashed 2 over 2 with horns, except the upper window has a recessed head whilst the lower has a green-painted wooden lintel. To the right of the return is a further cast iron gutter and two windows to each floor, both 1 over 1 sashes, with horns only on the ground floor. The gable of the return contains one window to each floor, set in recessed reveals with projecting cills; the upper is 1 over 1 with horns and the lower 2 over 2 with horns.

The south elevation comprises the south gable to the left with the side of the rear return set back to the right. The gable walling matches the entrance facade; one small first-floor window is a rectangular timber sliding sash without horns. The south side of the rear return is two-storey, roofed to match the main block and rendered as the main block but with a smoother finish. A cast iron gutter with circular cast iron downpipe and PVC soil pipe, painted green, runs along the right-hand side. Two first-floor windows are rectangular sliding sashes, 1 over 1 without horns, with whitened reveals and projecting green-painted concrete cills. A rectangular ledged timber door with glazed panel, set in a moulded wooden frame, opens to the left of the ground floor, flanked to the right by a pair of coupled windows, each sashed 1 over 1 with horns. A modern concrete paved area fronts the rear return door.

The house sits directly on the street, with a gravel driveway along the south gable bounded by overgrowth on a steep bank. To the rear is a grassed garden set below the level of the side driveway, retained by a basalt rubble wall with basalt and limestone copings topped with a timber post and wire fence. The northern garden boundary is formed by a timber palisade.