Former Superintendent's House at Blackhead Lighthouse, McCrea's Brae, Whitehead, Co Antrim, BT38 9NZ

A detached single-storey, three-bay former Lighthouse Superintendent’s house of 1902 in the middle of the complex; now rented out by the Commissioners of Irish Lights. The house is aligned north-south with its principal elevation facing east towards the sea. It has a hipped natural slate roof with rendered chimney to each gable. The rainwater goods comprise cast-iron ogee gutters and downpipes. The walls are painted and rendered and embellished with plain/dentillated yellow-brick eaves courses. The façade is symmetrical. The ground floor middle bay is abutted by a single-storey entrance porch (detailed below). This is flanked to each side by a square-headed 6/6 timber sliding sash window, each with a painted shouldered granite cill. There are three identical windows to the first floor, in line with the ground floor openings. The porch has a pitched natural slate roof with raised verge. Its rainwater goods and walls are detailed as the main building. There is a tongue-and-groove door on its right and left cheeks (only the latter is now in use) and a 6/6 timber sliding sash window to its gable (with painted shouldered cill). The north elevation has no openings. There are also no openings to the west (back) elevation except for a window to the middle of the first floor, detailed as at front. A wall forms a yard at the back of the house. The inside face of this wall is abutted by single-storey lean-to outbuildings; its wall is raised to accommodate their roofs. One of these buildings abuts the north end of the house's back elevation and contains an entrance door thereto. There is an access door into the yard on its south side and two sash windows (1/1 and 6/6) along the wall's west side. The south gable is abutted by a single-storey lean-to. The exposed section of gable has no openings. The lean-to has a monopitched natural slate roof with raised verges, and rainwater goods and walls detailed as the main block (including yellow brick eaves courses). There is a door on its right cheek and 6/6 sash window on its south elevation. Roof: Natural slate. Walling: Probably rubble stone. Windows: Mainly 6/6 timber sliding sashes RWG: Ogee cast-iron gutters.