10 Marine Parade, Whitehead, Carrickfergus, Co Antrim, BT38 9QP

An attached mid-terrace two-bay two-storey rendered house built in 1870, located west of Marine Parade on an elevated site overlooking Belfast Lough. The building forms part of a terrace of four houses with a symmetrical composition and retains its original unity, though this example is plainer than the end terrace house and contains inappropriate windows.

The main frontage faces east and is rectangular on plan, with a three-bay two-storey return shared with No. 9. The pitched natural slate roof has roll-moulded black clay ridge tiles. A large redbrick chimneystack, shared with No. 11 and rebuilt around 1990, rises from the main roof. A further pair of redbrick chimneystacks serve the return. Plastic rainwater goods run from overhanging eaves with exposed rafter feet.

The walling is painted ruled-and-lined render with a deep projecting rendered plinth course. Ground floor window openings are segmental-headed, while those to the first floor are square-headed. All windows are replacement timber casements with painted concrete sills; the paired ground floor windows have dropped sills and retain a stop-chamfer detail. A round-headed door opening with a painted engaged colonette, featuring a foliate capital, opens to the south and forms part of the adjoining house's door opening. Double-leaf timber doors with diagonally-sheeted panels and stop-chamfer detail are fitted behind the arch, with a rectangular overlight above. The door opens onto a step with encaustic tiles and a stone step. The tiling continues into an internal entrance lobby with a replacement timber glazed door and overlight. A large square-headed opening to the return contains double-leaf timber glazed doors. A further vertically-sheeted timber plank door with glazed panel serves the return.

A raised front garden is enclosed by a rendered wall, with a small rear yard accessed via a rear lane that also provides access to a further garden plot behind.

The house was built as the first stage of development of the new seaside town of Whitehead, under the direction of architect Timothy Hevey. The road from Carrickfergus to Larne was completed in 1854, and the Belfast and Northern Counties Railway extended to Larne in 1864 with a halt at Whitehead, providing the impetus for the town's late-nineteenth-century development as a leisure destination. The buildings first appear on the third edition Ordnance Survey map of 1902. Historical records from the 1920s show the house was then occupied by Francis Gordon, leased from the representatives of J. Raphael, and valued at £17. The building contributes positively to the Conservation Area as part of the group but is of insufficient interest to merit listing individually.