2 Glenoe Village

The Department's description

Exterior description and setting

A two-level gabled house of rendered stone with a gabled block of outbuildings standing to its north. Main entrance of house faces east.

East elevation comprises a two-storey portion to the left, containing one window to first floor and one window and doorway to ground floor, with a single-storey portion extending to the right for two windows. Windows in two-storey portion are rectangular metal fixed light with top-hung vent; recessed cills. Windows to wing to right are of similar form and pattern but of timber. Walling is dry dash render using limestone chippings above smooth cement rendered plinth. Roofs of Bangor Blue slates in regular courses with flush verges, but upper courses of two-storey portion look like asbestos slates; dark toned ridge tiles. PVC gutters and downpipes. Door is modern rectangular PVC, panelled and glazed.

South elevation comprises blank south gable of similar walling to entrance front; red brick chimney to apex with red brick string course; TV aerial attached to right hand side.

West elevation comprises two-storey portion to right, with one window in each floor, with single-storey wing extending to the left for two windows; all windows as previous to entrance front in timber; smooth cement rendered reveals. To right hand end of single-storey wing is a red painted metal Post Office letterbox set into the wall, inscribed ‘VR’ and ‘W.T. Allen & Co London’. PVC gutters with short linking PVC downpipe to two-story portion and a metal downpipe to single-storey wing. Walling as previous to entrance front, with addition of projecting stone eaves course to two-storey block; light timber lath affixed to each block below gutter brackets. Extending to the left of the west elevation is a wooden palisade which connects with the gabled outbuildings to the west.

North elevation is the blank north gable of the wing, dry dashed as previous, except for a rectangular panel of smooth cement render in the centre which is bowed out slightly; beyond is the smooth cement rendered north gable of the taller two-storey block.

Outbuildings comprise a gabled two-storey block with a gabled smaller and lower block connected to its north gable.

Main entrance of outbuildings faces east, away from road. East elevation of outbuildings: roof of Bangor Blue slates in regular courses; metal gutter and broken downpipe to two-storey block; walls of rubble greystone and white limestone rebuilt in places with concrete blockwork; rectangular timber windows in poor condition; ledged timber door to upper floor of two-storey block; and modern flush timber door with glazed panel, to ground floor, all in poor condition. Rectangular ledged timber door in poor condition to single-storey block, with a rectangular door opening to an upper level now blocked by concrete blocks and red brickwork; small low-level rectangular window set in deeply recessed stone surround including stone lintel.

South elevation of outbuildings is plain south gable of rubble stone, whitened.

West elevation: rubble stone, whitened; roof slated as previous, metal rainwater goods in poor condition; one window in ground floor of two-storey block, rectangular timber two-pane, top-hung, with splayed rendered cill; two blocked-up windows and a blocked-up doorway to ground floor and four blocked-up windows to upper floor of two-storey block; one blocked-up window to lower block. Extending to the left, to the north, and set back slightly, is a low basalt rubble parapet of a slightly humped-back bridge to the north.North elevation is the plain north gable of similar walling to previous gable, with gutter returning from front elevation at right hand side; rusted metal downpipe.

Setting: the house stands on a corner site on the east side of the main street in the village, with its entrance originally facing directly on to the street but now facing away from it. Its south gable also faces directly on to a side road, also without a pavement. To the east of the house is a concrete path, and a gravelled area with shrubs, bounded to the south by a whitened rubble wall with large basalt boulder copings. Abutting south gable to right hand side is a pair of low square gate piers in smooth cement render; small wooden gate. The outbuildings stand in a field of long grass, with a stone bridge to the north.

Standing in the field to the east of the house is a small detached single pig-house, of rubble stone, gabled, with a roof of Bangor Blue slates in regular courses; one small rectangular opening in front wall which faces into a small open forecourt bounded by basalt rubble walls with rough limestone copings; dark toned ridge tiles impressed with a shield motif inscribed ‘C. Davison & Co. Buckley. Flintshire’.

Historical information

Appears on OS map of 1832, but has been modified over the years.

References - Primary Sources

1. Andrew Nicholl, 'Village of Glenoe, near Larne', c 1828, watercolour (catalogue no 1706) in Ulster Museum (includes this house shown as slated along with slated two-storey outbuilding).
2. OS Map 1832, Co Antrim 46.
3. Ordnance Survey Memoirs of Ireland, Vol 32: Parishes of Co Antrim XII (Belfast, 1995), p 89.
4. Photograph in Hogg collection, Ulster Museum, c 1906.
5. Photographs in Green Collection, UFTM (WAG 1099 and 2973).

Secondary Sources

1. W.A. Maguire, Caught in Time: The Photographs of Alexander Hogg of Belfast 1870-1939 (Friar’s Bush Press, Belfast, 1986), p 12 [photo of main street of Glenoe in 1906 includes house and outbuilding].
2. D. Corcoran, A Tour of East Antrim: Historic photographs from the W.A. Green Collection in the Ulster Folk and Transport Museum (Friar’s Bush Press, Belfast, 1990), pp 20 and 21 [photos of Glenoe include this house].
3. The Ulster Year Book 1997 (Appletree Press, Belfast) - reproduces watercolour by A Nicholl, c 1828.

Criteria for listing: architectural interest

Not listed

Criteria for listing: historic interest

Not listed

Evaluation

This early eighteenth century house has been much altered.