39 Cockhill Road, Hannahstown, Ballymena, Co Antrim, BT42 2JP

The site is accessed from the Antrim/Ballymena Road by turning left (north-west) at Ballycowan, about 2.5 miles south of Ballymena, for Cromkill but after a short distance turning left (south-west) again to reach the farmyard after about five hundred yards. The buildings are served by a short entrance drive passing outbuildings and may be glimpsed from the road. The dwelling is single storey with whitened plastered stone walls and thatched roof between corrugated iron coverings and with cemented segments where it rises above these roofs. There are two corbelled red brick chimneys, one with two pots over the position of the kitchen hearth and the other without pots on the left-hand (north-east) gable serving the parlour fireplace. The front that faces north-west has the entrance, protected by a square-jambed windbreak porch with tiled roof and cast iron gutter, flanked to the left (north-east) by a margined-paned vertically sliding window and to the right (south west) by two plain sashed vertically sliding windows. The frames are exposed, sash stops are splayed and sills are of traditional depths at the leading edges. At the rear from the left (south-west) there are a two four-square metal-framed windows, then two vertically sliding timber windows with exposed frames and splayed sash stops and finally a pair of vertically sliding timber windows each 2/4 and in an exposed frame. Sills are of traditional depths. To the left (north-east) of the dwelling there is an outbuilding consisting of two compartments both entered by sheeted half doors. The roofs are of corrugated iron and rainwater goods are of pressed metal. The first has exposed random stone in the interior, sawn timbers and a ladder to a loft on the left-hand side. The end outbuilding has plastered stone walls and joists supporting wide boards. The last room of the house is roofed with corrugated iron and beyond there is a corrugated iron roofed building with two corbelled brick chimneystacks, the first with one pot.