30/32 Harbour Road,

The Department's description

Exterior description and setting

A two-storey, three-bay building with a shop incorporated in part of the ground floor. Main entrance faces east.

Entrance elevation: roof of Bangor blue slates in regular courses; two chimneys, one to each extremity, smooth rendered. Walling is smooth rendered, lined and blocked, with raised quoins to extremities, and plain projecting eaves course; cast iron gutter and downpipe.
Windows are rectangular timber sliding sash, 1 over 1 with horns, with segmental arched top rails, and exposed sash boxes, set in square moulded surrounds; projecting stone cills, painted. Ground floor window has a modern scrolling steel grille affixed just above cill. The windows are all replacements of c 1997-2000 for previous windows sashed 6 over 6 with plain top rails.
The panelled rectangular door is set in a semi-circular arched opening with plain fanlight, and panelled pilasters rise to panelled architrave blocks and panelled archivolt with keystone.
Modern wrought iron brackets for hanging baskets are mounted on the elevation, along with a scrolling ironwork shop sign bracket.

Shop
Shop front which comprises a rectangular glazed and panelled timber door surmounted by a plain rectangular fanlight, set in a timber frame, and recessed in square moulded surrounds. To each side of the doorway is a large rectangular timber fixed light, with segmental arched top rail, a replacement of 1997 for the previous plain horizontal top rails, recessed in similar square moulded surrounds, with projecting stone cills.
Windows have modern scrolling steel grilles affixed just above cill.
Modern extractor fan set in fanlight.

North gable: upper portion only is visible above the former railway bridge; gable blank, cement rendered with a wet dash of crushed stones.

Rear elevation: two-storey, roughcast render using crushed stones, painted white. Roof slated as previous to front; three modern flush rooflights; PVC gutter and downpipes. Three windows to first floor, new, looks like PVC, rectangular fixed lights with top-hung vents which incorporate horns to give appearance of timber sashed windows; one window similar, to ground floor.
Ground floor has a single storey projecting extension with rendered walls and corrugated perspex low-pitch roof; all-glass plastic framed sliding French window. To extreme left, ground floor, single storey return with iron lean-to roof of synthetic slates. Patio of red tiles with steps leading up to elevated yard with tarmac surface.

SETTING: The building stands in the main street of the village, at one end of a terrace with a former railway bridge abutting it on the other side up to eaves level; small pedestrian archway over pavement and a telephone kiosk beside it both adjacent at front.
At the rear there is a tarmac yard opening out to High Street. Lean-to garage in yard with rendered walls, corrugated iron roof and car-port. Boundary of rear yard: to north, limestone rubble wall of former railway viaduct; to south, bare concrete blockwork of adjacent two to three-storey building; to west, bare concrete block wall with corrugated steel door.

Historical information

The year of construction is not recorded but it appears on the OS map of 1857 and may be taken to date from probably the early 1850s.

The present front windows, sashed 1 over 1 date from c 1997-2000; prior to that the windows were sashed 6 over 6; prior to that, at the time of the first survey in 1970, the upper windows were sashed 1 over 1 with the ground floor window 2 over 2; an old photograph taken in the early 20th century appears to show the upper windows as originally small-paned but precise arrangement unclear.

References – Primary Sources
1. OS Map 1857, Co Antrim 25.

Secondary Sources
1. UAHS, Glens of Antrim (Belfast, 1971), p 19.
2. M. McSparran, C. Dallat and J. Irvine, Oh Maybe it was Yesterday (Glens of Antrim Historical Society, 1980), p 16 (includes this building in an old photograph of Harbour Road).
3. C. Dallat, The Road to the Glens (Belfast, 1989), p 19 (includes part of this building in an old photograph of Harbour Road).

Criteria for listing: architectural interest

A. Style
B. Proportion
C. Ornamentation
H-. Alterations detracting from building

Criteria for listing: historic interest

X. Local Interest

Evaluation

This is a mid-19th century building in a plain style which has lost some original features but together with other buildings in the terrace it makes a positive contribution to the essentially 19th century character of the main street of the village.

General comments

**Numbering checked after record was transferred. They were originally listed as 30 + 32 Harbour Road but after site inspection by Alan Turkington they were found to be numbered 30 + 30A Harbour Road**

Building Control advised that they had carried out a site inspection and confirmed the correct postal address for the building as 30& 32 Harbour Road, Carnlough, Ballymena, BT44 0EU. This by fax on file dated 12/August 2004. Since the building was originally scheduled and charged as HB06/01/010, no modification was necessary. AP