46 Loughmourne Road, Carrickfergus, Co.Antrim, BT38 9AN

This is a two-bay vernacular house, constructed around 1850, located on the east side of Loughmourne Road in Carrickfergus. The house is detached, symmetrical, and set back from the road, retaining its original setting which includes a traditional farmyard with attached stone outbuildings.

The building is rectangular in plan, with a gabled central storm porch providing direct entry. The roof is pitched and covered in natural slate, with blue/black ridge tiles and masonry verge tiles. Red brick chimney stacks rise from the gables. There are two rooflights on the south-facing slope, and remnants of half-round cast-iron rainwater goods remain. The walls are constructed of roughly coursed random rubble, with brick window surrounds and visible traces of lime render. The windows are square-headed timber sliding sashes with two panes per sash, and masonry cills.

The south-facing principal elevation has a single window on either side of the central porch. The porch has a pitched slated roof, terracotta verge tiles and a rooflight on its right-hand slope. One cheek of the porch has a window, while the other is blank. A single-storey outbuilding with an asbestos sheeted roof abuts the left gable, with its exposed face blank. The rear elevation is partially obscured by a raised ground level. The right gable is abutted by a multi-bay two-storey outbuilding. A gable extension to the left is partially open to the south, while the north and west gables are blank. The right gable extension mirrors the main block, featuring asymmetrical fenestration to the south with a central window opening, an entrance on either side at ground floor, two window openings at first floor. A timber sheeted door is located on the north side at first floor and the east gable is blank.

The property was first depicted on the Ordnance Survey map of 1857 and was recorded in Griffith’s Valuation of 1859 as a house, offices, and land occupied by Andrew Ross and leased from the Marquis of Downshire.