Gill's Almhouses, 36a - 36b Ellis Street, Carrickfergus, Co Antrim, BT38 8AY

Symmetrical two-bay one-and-a-half-storey terrace, dated 1761, renovated 1904. Rectangular-on-plan facing east and located to the west side of Ellis Street, Carrickfergus. (No.36 is the south (right) dwelling in a terrace of three similarly styled Almshouses.) Pitched natural slate roof, blue/black clay ridge tiles; red brick chimneystack to each gable, terracotta pots. Deep overhanging timber eaves with plain bargeboards. Smooth rendered walling with roughcast finish to first floor and corbelled brick eaves. Square-headed 6/6 timber casements with smooth rendered architraves and painted masonry cills unless otherwise stated. Principal (east) elevation has central entrance; window surmounted by wall-head dormer to either side. Timber sheeted entrance door with central glazed pane and original ironmongery within smooth rendered architrave. Left gable is abutted by No.34 Ellis Street HB22/07/001B Rear (west) elevation has continuous wall-head dormer with flat roof; smooth rendered walls; central replacement door (single glazed pane over fixed panel); two small lean-to boiler houses, one located to right of door, second located to end of left bay; both have two casement windows to right (right windows diminished); three 1/1 timber casements at first floor. Entrance is surmounted by pitched felted canopy supported on timber brackets. Right gable is blank with original roof pitch projecting at right, (continuous wall-head dormer does no end at gable wall.) Roof: Pitched natural slate Walling: Smooth rendered unless otherwise stated Windows: Square-headed 6/6 timber casements unless otherwise stated RWG: uPVC