58 Harbour Road,

The Department's description

Exterior description and setting

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

Front elevation: Roof of Bangor blue slates in regular courses with two chimneys, one to each extremity; one to left smooth rendered, one to right red and yellow polychrome brickwork; modern pots.
Wall smooth rendered, lined and blocked, with a dentil course at the eaves, a moulded stringcourse at first floor cill level, moulded surrounds to windows, and raised quoins at extremities; projecting moulded plinth.
Windows are rectangular timber sliding sash 1 over 1 with horns.
Central single storey rectangular porch, smooth rendered, with plain projecting eaves courses; flat roof; chamfered openings to porch, containing modern rectangular timber fixed lights and top-hung vents, and a ledged timber door; PVC downpipe from concealed gutter. Across the front of the house is a small enclosure, bounded by smooth rendered walls and a modern iron gate, with ground surface of cement screed.

End gable is rendered with a dry dash of crushed limestone chippings and mixed pebbles, with raised smooth rendered quoins at extremities; smooth rendered plinth and stringcourses. One window to ground floor, as previous to front porch but in raised surrounds; two similar but smaller windows to attic.

Rear elevation: two-storey with roof of Bangor blue slates in regular courses contained by cement gable coping to left; one flush rooflight; smooth rendered chimney to right-hand extremity of ridge; red and yellow brick chimney to left; terracotta pots. PVC gutter and downpipes. Walls dry-dashed with pebbles and chippings; painted quoins to left-hand extremity; painted cement surrounds to openings and similar borders to shallow central projecting flat-roofed two-storey extension containing first-floor bathroom and ground-floor toilet. Elevation three windows wide to first floor, central one in projecting extension, timber sliding sash, vertically hung, 6 over 6, with horns, containing translucent glass, above a ground floor window, timber fixed light with top-hung vent. Similar fixed lights and vents in first floor flanking each side of bathroom outshot, and to ground floor flanking right-hand side; painted stone cills to all windows. To left-hand side, single storey flat roofed return with flush door, similar walls as previous, connected by similar pebble dashed overhead beam to lean-to building in yard. Along south side of yard, a two-storey gabled and slated outbuilding , with similar finishes to house; ledged wooden doors and a fixed light window. Boundary wall of yard to north and west: pebble dash finish as previous.

SETTING: The building stands at the north end of a terrace of six houses, within the built-up area of the village, facing the main road with an unobstructed view across it to the harbour.

Historical information

Precise date of building not known but it appears on the OS map of 1857. Known at one time as the 'Harbour Mistresses' House'.

References – Primary Sources
1. OS Map 1857, 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.

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.