110, 110A and 112 Garron Road, Carnlough, Ballymena, Co Antrim, BT44 0JU

A 19th-century building of no special architectural interest, located in a rural and scenic coastal setting near Carnlough. Originally built as a single dwelling, it has been converted into three self-contained apartments and substantially altered, losing much of its original vernacular character through renovation and modern modifications.

The building is constructed as a two and three-storey structure with roughly rendered and whitened walls and slated roofs. The north elevation, which is the main elevation facing the coastal road, is covered in Bangor blue slates laid in regular courses. Three modern red brick chimneys with modern pots rise from the roof, which also contains one modern rooflight. The walls are rough rendered and whitened with patches of smooth rendered repair work. Windows throughout are rectangular timber sliding sashes with 2 over 2 panes and horns, featuring exposed frames set in plain reveals. On the ground floor, one window is flanked by timber shutters and set within a panel of timber sheeting that recesses into what was formerly a rectangular coach doorway. The north elevation contains one domestic doorway numbered 110 with a rectangular sheeted door in plain reveals, and a garage doorway at the extreme right with a pair of sheeted doors. The gutters are PVC and downpipes are metal. The east gables are plain blank walls with a PVC soil pipe.

The rear elevation is of similar materials and character, though fitted with light metal rainwater goods and containing two modern rooflights. A rectangular sheeted doorway, unnumbered, opens from the main rear wall and is approached by concrete flag steps. To the left is a lean-to projection with a sheeted doorway numbered 112, set in the side wall facing west. The west gable is rough rendered and contains three sashed windows of 1 over 1 panes with horns, and a PVC soil pipe.

The building stands in isolation facing the main coastal road with views over the sea. It is set back slightly from the road with a modern pink concrete brick paved area in front, bordered by concrete kerbstones laid flat. Modern concrete flagged steps rise on each side to a modern paved area across the rear. Behind the building a steep verdant hillside rises steeply. To the east is whitened cement-coated boundary walling of basalt rubble, and to the west a rendered modern concrete block wall set back behind a modern paved parking area. A grassed plot to the east is entered by a modern tubular steel gate on timber posts.

The precise date of construction is not known, but the building appears for the first time on the Ordnance Survey map of 1903 and probably dates from the second half of the 19th century. According to one source, it functioned as an inn and horse stable before the opening of the new coast road in the early 1840s, though it does not appear on either the Ordnance Survey map of 1832 or 1857. The building was renovated in 1992.