2 Glenoe Village, Glenoe, Larne, Co Antrim, BT40 3LG

This early eighteenth-century house has been much altered over the years. It is a two-level gabled structure of rendered stone, with a separate gabled block of outbuildings standing to its north.

The main house has its principal entrance facing east onto the village street. The east elevation comprises a two-storey section on the left, containing one window to the first floor and one window with doorway to the ground floor, and a single-storey wing extending to the right with two windows. The two-storey windows are rectangular metal fixed lights with top-hung vents and recessed cills. The wing windows are of similar form but timber-framed. The walls are finished in dry dash render using limestone chippings over a smooth cement rendered plinth. The roofs are laid with Bangor Blue slates in regular courses with flush verges, though the upper courses of the two-storey portion appear to be asbestos slates. Dark-toned ridge tiles finish the roof line. PVC gutters and downpipes are modern additions. The entrance door is a modern rectangular PVC unit, panelled and glazed.

The south elevation presents a blank gable, similarly rendered, with a red brick chimney rising to the apex and a red brick string course. A television aerial is attached to the right side.

The west elevation comprises a two-storey section to the right, with one window in each floor, and a single-storey wing extending left with two windows, all timber-framed as on the entrance front. The renders have smooth cement reveals. Set into the wall of the single-storey wing is a red painted metal Post Office letterbox marked 'VR' and 'W.T. Allen & Co London'. PVC gutters serve the two-storey portion with short linking PVC downpipes, while a metal downpipe serves the single-storey wing. The two-storey block has a projecting stone eaves course, and light timber laths are affixed below the gutter brackets to both blocks. A wooden palisade fence extends from the west elevation to connect with the outbuildings. The north elevation is the blank north gable of the wing, dry dashed except for a rectangular panel of smooth cement render in the centre which is slightly bowed out, beyond which is the smooth cement rendered north gable of the taller two-storey block.

The outbuildings comprise a gabled two-storey block with a smaller, lower gabled block adjoining its north gable. The main entrance of the outbuildings faces east, away from the road. The east elevation has a roof of Bangor Blue slates in regular courses with metal gutters and a broken downpipe to the two-storey block. The walls are of rubble greystone and white limestone, rebuilt in places with concrete blockwork. Rectangular timber windows are in poor condition. A ledged timber door serves the upper floor of the two-storey block, and a modern flush timber door with glazed panel provides access to the ground floor, both in poor condition. The single-storey block has a rectangular ledged timber door in poor condition, with a blocked upper-level door opening, and a small low-level rectangular window set in a deeply recessed stone surround with stone lintel.

The south elevation is a plain gable of rubble stone, whitened. The west elevation is of rubble stone, whitened, with a Bangor Blue slate roof. Metal rainwater goods are in poor condition. The two-storey block has one window in the ground floor, a rectangular timber two-pane top-hung unit with splayed rendered cill, but two blocked windows and a blocked doorway to the ground floor and four blocked windows to the upper floor. The lower block has one blocked window. A low basalt rubble parapet of a slightly humped-back bridge stands to the left and north, set back slightly. The north elevation is a plain gable of rubble stone, with guttering returning from the front elevation at the right and a rusted metal downpipe.

The house stands on a corner site on the east side of the main street in the village, with its entrance originally facing directly onto the street but now facing away from it. The south gable also faces a side road without a pavement. To the east of the house is a concrete path and a gravelled area with shrubs, bounded to the south by a whitened rubble wall with large basalt boulder copings. Abutting the south gable on the right are a pair of low square gate piers in smooth cement render with a small wooden gate. The outbuildings stand in a field of long grass with a stone bridge to the north.

Standing in the field to the east of the house is a small detached single pig-house of rubble stone with a gabled roof of Bangor Blue slates in regular courses. Dark-toned ridge tiles impressed with a shield motif are inscribed 'C. Davison & Co. Buckley. Flintshire'. The building has one small rectangular opening in its front wall facing into a small forecourt bounded by basalt rubble walls with rough limestone copings.

The house appears on the Ordnance Survey map of 1832. A watercolour by Andrew Nicholl of around 1828 in the Ulster Museum shows the house with slates, alongside a slated two-storey outbuilding. A photograph in the Hogg collection dated around 1906 documents the building, and photographs in the Green Collection at the Ulster Folk and Transport Museum provide further historical record.