21 Marine Road,

The Department's description

Exterior description and setting

A two-storey gabled house with rendered walls, with its first floor extending over a ground floor shop, and a lower two-storey return to the rear. Entrance faces east.

Entrance front 4 windows wide to first floor. Walls rendered, lined, blocked and painted; raised quoins to extremities, painted. Roof of Bangor blue slates in regular courses. Three chimneys, one at each gable, one near centre, rendered and painted; three pots to each chimney, original 19th century. Cast iron gutter and downpipe. First floor windows timber sliding sash, vertically hung, 6 over 6, without horns, set in moulded cement surrounds. Ground floor, left to right: one window, as on first floor; entrance door, timber, four panels, with plain rectangular fanlight, set in moulded cement surround. Rectangular shop front comprising central doorway between large timber fixed light, nine-pane windows, with low painted stone cills. Each window set between fluted cement pilasters; flutings to capitals; frieze over, with shop name painted in panel; fluted extremities; dentil cornice, original. Wooden door panelled and glazed; wired glass; aluminium handle and letterbox; sidelight of similar glass to right hand side, replacement, 1988. To right hand extremity of shop front, raised cement quoins painted black, set in smooth rendered wall, lined, blocked and painted.

South elevation: blank gable, rendered as front, with quoins to extremities, similar to front.

Rear elevation, facing west: two-storey, rendered and slated as previous, with a lower gabled two storey return to extreme left hand side linked by a single-storey slated lean-to to a yet lower two-storey gabled projection to right. Two small flush rooflights, new. Cast iron guttering and downpipes. Left hand return: gable blank with chimney on apex; two windows to first floor on south side, as on front elevation; one similar window to ground floor. To right of return, one first floor window, similar, above lean-to slated roof with flush rooflight, new; timber porch door panelled and glazed, original. To right of lean-to, gabled projection, a rebuilding of original but extended outwards, with two coupled timber sliding sash vertically hung windows to each floor in gable, with translucent glass to first floor. On south wall of projection, an outshot chimney, rendered; 19th century re-used pot with modern cowl.

North elevation: two-storey gable, similar to south gable, with one window to first floor, timber sliding sash as on front elevation; two small windows to attic, timber casements or fixed lights, four panes. To right, low two-storey gabled return: rendered walls with raised quoins to extremities, as previous, quoins extending at right hand side to form jamb for gateway to backyard; slated roof as previous; rendered chimney on right hand gable with one pot, as previous. Cast iron gutter and downpipe. Two windows to first floor, as on front elevation; one window to ground floor, similar, with doorway in unmoulded reveal to right: wooden door, four-panelled, with inappropriate modern handle; rectangular fanlight: two rectangular panes within margin lights. Side boundary wall beyond steel yard door: harled limestone and brick to road front.

SETTING: The building stands in the main street of the village, located on a corner site with a side road running directly alongside one gable; it faces the main road, with a view across it to the sea, set back from the pavement with a lawn in front, with a low front boundary plinth wall in red brick with concrete copings.

To rear, back garden grassed, elevated above ground floor level by concrete steps with new steel railings. Boundary walling: to south, harled rubble wall; to west, red brick with concrete coping; to north, rendered wall to garden side with horizontal sliding steel doors to side road.

Historical information

Precise date of building not known but it appears for the first time on the OS map of 1903.

References – Primary Sources
1. OS Map 1903, Co Antrim 25.

Secondary Sources
1. UAHS, Glens of Antrim (Belfast, 1971), p 19 (but the date of c 1840 given there appears to be erroneous).
2. DOE (NI), Carnlough Conservation Area (1981) - but the date of 1848 given there appears to be erroneous.

Criteria for listing: architectural interest

A. Style
B. Proportion
H-. Alterations detracting from building
I. Quality and survival of Interior

Criteria for listing: historic interest

X. Local Interest

Evaluation

This is a 19th century building in a plain but well proportioned style which retains most of its original features and together with its associated shop makes a positive contribution to the 19th century character of the village.