7 Glenoe Village, Glenoe, Larne, Co Antrim, BT40 3LG

7 Glenoe Village, Larne

This is a small two-storey gabled house forming the left-hand end of a four-house terrace that steps progressively up the hillside. The main entrance faces west onto the village street.

The west elevation is three windows wide. The roof is laid with Bangor Blue slates in regular courses, continuous with the adjoining house's roof to the right and finished with a cement gable upstand to the left. Dark-toned ridge tiles crown the roof, with a single chimney of red firebrick positioned on the left-hand gable, featuring a projecting string course and topped by a modern red terracotta pot with cowl. The eaves overhang and are equipped with a cast iron gutter and circular cast iron downpipe on the left side.

The walling is roughly rendered rubble stonework, limewashed and whitened, with brick quoins at the left extremity. The lower part reveals some red brickwork and small areas of exposed stonework. Windows are rectangular timber sliding sashes, vertically hung, with 2 over 2 panes and horns. They are painted white, with exposed sash boxes painted green. The reveals are whitened and the windows have projecting concrete cills painted green; first-floor windows are tucked up under the eaves.

The entrance door is rectangular timber ledged with a rectangular three-pane fanlight. It has a brass replacement handle and latch of traditional pattern, a modern plain brass letterbox, and a concrete doorstep.

The north elevation comprises the gable end, with walling similar to the entrance front and whitened brick visible in a section below the chimney. A brick chimney sits on the gable apex. Projecting verge courses are linked by a projecting string course at the base of the chimney. A dry stone wall of basalt rubble projects forward from the right extremity.

The rear elevation is two-storey with roof slating as the front and one small original rooflight. The walling matches the entrance front, but the right-hand ground floor window features a red brick segmental arch with whitened dressings. Traces of brick dressings are visible beneath surface render at other openings. Windows are similar to those on the entrance front, except the left-hand first floor window, which is a timber fixed light with a top-hung vent containing translucent glass. The rear door is rectangular timber ledged with a rectangular fanlight set in a whitened brick dressed opening. To the right of the left-hand ground floor window stands a small rectangular timber ledged door giving access to a small brick-lined recess built into the wall thickness to contain a gas cylinder; this recess was created in the 1950s. A cast iron gutter with circular cast iron downpipe runs along the right side, with a PVC soil pipe on the left.

A concrete area to the rear is enclosed on the left by a whitened rubble stone wall to first-floor height, containing a window opening blocked with concrete block. This wall was originally the side wall of the rear return of the adjoining house and now serves as a screen wall.

The house stands on the east side of the main village street, facing directly onto it at the left extremity of the stepping terrace. A grassed area immediately to the north forms part of the garden of No. 6, retained by a dry stone boundary wall to the main road. The rear contains a flower garden with garden sheds. The rear garden's northern boundary is formed by a hedge with a small wooden gate to the west, and the rear wall and roof of a pig-house from No. 6's garden to the east. The southern boundary of the rear garden is formed by a rough wooden fence.