Historic Buildings Record · Northern Ireland
Stonyhill Cottage,
Stony Hill, Mid and East Antrim, Northern Ireland
The record
- Designation
- Record only (not listed)
- Grade
- Record Only
- Type
- House
- Date of construction
- 1840 - 1859
- Address
- Stonyhill Cottage,, 14 Ballymena Road, Carnlough, Ballymena, Co Antrim, BT44 0HT
- Townland
- Stony Hill
- Council
- Mid and East Antrim
- Country
- Northern Ireland
- Coordinates
- 54.98262, -5.99074
- Date of survey
- 20 November 2000
- HB reference
- HB06/01/001
Slide toward Today to fade the historical sheet and see the modern map underneath.
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Shown on 4 historical map sheets, the earliest the 1831 "Scotland southern." (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries).
The Department's description
Exterior description and setting
A 1½ storey three-bay house with a projecting flat roofed porch. Main entrance front faces east.
Entrance front: roof of modern concrete tiles, with three swept dormers to front. Walls rendered, lined, and blocked, with quoins to extremities. Central flat roofed porch flanked each side by canted flat roofed bays Windows to bays are timber sashed, 1 over 1, with horns, some with margins; windows to front of porch are 6 over 6, with margins, without horns; windows to dormers are modern timber fixed lights, casements, and vents. Porch contains twin entrances, one to each side, with modern glazed and panelled doors incorporating a radial fanlight feature.
Other elevations are of similar materials, with sash windows 6 over 6 and 3 over 3, with horns.
SETTING: The building stands at the edge of the town on a slightly elevated site overlooking the sea. It faces the main road but is set well back from it within its own grounds; fields to front and sides.
Historical information
Precise date of building not known, but it appears on the OS map of 1857.
References – Primary Sources
1. OS Map 1857, Co Antrim 25.
Secondary Sources
1. UAHS, Glens of Antrim (Belfast, 1971), p 19.
Criteria for listing: architectural interest
Not listed
Criteria for listing: historic interest
Not listed
Evaluation
This is a mid-19th century building of no special historic interest and of limited original architectural merit, which has now lost a number of its original features.
Nearby in the register
- Glencloy Bridge,Bridgeunder 1 mi
- Drumalla House,Outdoor Pursuits Centre etcunder 1 mi
- Bay CottageHouseunder 1 mi
- Former St John’s Roman Catholic Church,Churchunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.