36 Manse Road, Ballycarry, Co. Antrim, BT38 9HW

36 Manse Road is a detached one-and-a-half-storey vernacular house built around 1850, situated on the south side of Manse Road in Carrickfergus. The building is rectangular in plan with a single-storey return to the rear, further abutted by a series of modern extensions.

The roof is pitched natural slate with blue and black ridge tiles and masonry verge tiles. Red brick gable chimneys with terracotta pots rise from the roofline. The walls are roughly coursed random rubble with visible traces of lime render. Few cast-iron half-round rainwater goods remain on the building; replacement uPVC goods have been installed to the principal elevation.

The principal elevation faces south and has unsymmetrical fenestration. It contains a central timber-sheeted entrance door with an overlight, a single window to the left, and two windows to the right. All ground floor windows are blocked. Two diminished 4/8 windows light the half-storey above. The windows are square-headed 6/6 timber sliding sashes with masonry cills. The left gable is roughcast rendered and contains a sliding corrugated metal door. The rear elevation is abutted to the right by a single-storey return with pitched natural slate roof detailed as the main block. To the left it is abutted by a lean-to corrugated metal extension, which covers two original ground floor window openings; the exposed section has a single first floor window. The right gable contains a single first floor window. The single-storey return is abutted to the south by a modern outbuilding with a pitched asbestos sheeted roof; its right side has a single window, and its left side is abutted by a further modern extension with a corrugated metal lean-to roof.

The house is set parallel to the road within its original setting, with a small front garden enclosed by a dry stone wall at the road edge and an original cast-iron pedestrian gate at the north-west corner. Replacement entrance walls and piers have been built to both the east and west sides of the house.

Internally, the house has had all of its detailing removed, which has detracted from its architectural interest.

The building appears on the first edition Ordnance Survey map of 1832. The second edition map of 1857 shows an extension to the north-east elevation facing the road. Griffith's Valuation of 1859 records the property as a 'house, offices and land' owned and occupied by Alexander Nelson, valued at £4. Valuation revisions list the occupier in 1864 as James Nelson. The building is now used for outbuildings.