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

7 Glenoe Village is a small two-storey gabled house built in vernacular Georgian style, dating to between 1820 and 1839. It forms the left-hand end of a terrace of four houses that steps up the hillside, and stands on the east side of the main street in Glenoe village, facing directly onto the street.

The house's proportions and architectural details display characteristics typical of Georgian design, and it retains the essence of its original exterior appearance. The group of four terraced houses, of which this property forms part, is architecturally and historically important as an attractive and distinctive ensemble of considerable local interest.

The west elevation, which faces the street and contains the main entrance, is three windows wide. The roof is laid with Bangor Blue slates in regular courses, continuous with the roof of the adjoining house to the right and contained by a cement gable upstand to the left. Dark-toned ridge tiles crown the roof, with one chimney constructed of red firebrick with a projecting string course, positioned on the left-hand gable. An overhanging eaves with cast iron guttering and a circular cast iron downpipe to the left-hand side complete the street elevation.

Walling is rubble stonework, roughly rendered, limewashed and whitened. Brick quoins mark the left-hand extremity, with the lower part of brickwork and a small portion of stonework visible. Windows are rectangular timber sliding sash, vertically hung with two panes over two panes, fitted with horns, painted white with exposed sash boxes painted green. The first-floor windows are tucked up under the eaves. Whitened reveals frame the windows, with projecting concrete cills painted green. The entrance door is a rectangular timber-ledged door with a rectangular fanlight of three panes, fitted with a brass replacement handle and latch to traditional pattern, a modern plain brass letterbox, and concrete doorstep.

The north elevation comprises the north gable, with walling similar to the entrance front and an area of whitened brick visible below the chimney. A brick chimney sits at the apex of the gable. 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-hand extremity.

The rear elevation is two-storey, with roof slating matching the front. One small original rooflight is present. Walling is as the entrance front, but with a red brick segmental arch and dressings visible to the right-hand ground floor window, whitened, and traces of brick dressings to other openings visible beneath surface render. Windows are similar to those on the entrance front, except the left-hand first floor, which is a timber fixed light with 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 at ground level is a small rectangular timber-ledged door to a small brick-lined recess in the wall thickness, originally designed to contain a gas cylinder; this recess was created in the 1950s. Cast iron guttering with a circular cast iron downpipe is positioned to the right-hand side, with a PVC soil pipe to the left-hand side. A concrete area to the rear is enclosed on the left by a whitened rubble stone wall rising to first-floor height, containing a window opening that has been blocked up with concrete block; this wall was originally the side wall of the rear return of the adjoining house, now serving as a screen wall.

To the rear of the house is a flower garden containing garden sheds. The northern boundary of the rear garden is formed by a hedge with a small wooden gate to the west, and by the rear wall and roof of a pig-house in the garden to number 6 to the east. The southern boundary is formed by a rough wooden fence.

The house appears on the Ordnance Survey map of 1832 and is depicted in a watercolour by Andrew Nicholl dating to around 1828, held in the Ulster Museum, where it appears as a two-storey structure. Historic photographs are held in the Green Collection at the Ulster Folk and Transport Museum.