42-44 Harbour Road,

The Department's description

Exterior description and setting

A two-storey three-bay house with rendered walls, slated roof, and a shop-front to the ground floor, forming part of a terrace of six houses. Main entrance faces east.

Front elevation: Roof of Bangor blue slates in regular courses; two chimneys, one at each extremity.
Wall smooth rendered, lined and blocked; PVC gutter and downpipe.
Windows to first floor are modern rectangular PVC fixed lights with top-hung vents, set in plain reveals; projecting cills, with modern scrolling wrought iron plant box supports attached. Openings to ground floor comprise a central doorway containing a modern rectangular glazed flush timber door surmounted by a plain fanlight; to left of doorway is a large rectangular PVC fixed light window with two top-hung vents; recessed cill. To the right is a large rectangular recessed shop-front with timber fixed lights above tiled lower panels; modern glazed door; sides of recess also tiled; steel shutter mounted above.

Rear elevation: two-storey, four windows wide, one to each side of a central later two-storey projecting extension; roof of asbestos slates in regular courses, with modern flush rooflights; PVC gutter and downpipes; walls roughcast rendered using stone chippings. All windows rectangular timber fixed-light with top-hung vents, except lower left in projecting extension: timber sliding sash, vertically hung, 1 over 1, with horns, replacement of 1960s. Yard concrete, elevated above ground floor level, reached by steps. Close to rear of house, pebble-dashed rubble stone two-storey building in yard known as nos. 59 and 61 High Street. Elevation to High Street, two-storey with roof of Bangor blue slates in regular courses; one chimney of red brick; metal gutter and downpipe; wall dry-dash render using small pebbles, with smooth rendered surrounds to openings and borders to entire facade. Three windows to first floor, timber sliding sash, vertically hung, 1 over 1, with horns, each lower sash with one horizontal glazing bar. One window to ground floor, similar, with wooden door to left, panelled and glazed, and two large rectangular garage doors to right, not original, one to left, of profiled metal, one to right, two-leaf ledged timber. No. 59 abuts terrace house to right; no. 61 displays pebble-dashed gable on left.

SETTING: The building stands in a terrace of six houses, within the built-up area of the village, facing directly onto the pavement, with an unobstructed view to the harbour across the main road.

Historical information

Precise date of building not known but it appears on the OS map of 1903; a photograph taken by 1872 shows the site empty.

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

Secondary Sources
1. UAHS, Glens of Antrim (Belfast, 1971), p 20 (item no. 16).
2. C. Dallat, The Road to the Glens (Belfast, 1989), p 20.
3. M. McSparran, C. Dallat, and J. Irvine, Oh Maybe it was Yesterday (Glens of Antrim Historical Society, 1980), p 18 (a photograph taken by 1872 shows the site empty).

Criteria for listing: architectural interest

Not listed

Criteria for listing: historic interest

Not listed

Evaluation

A plain building of no intrinsic architectural or historical interest.