6 Glenoe Village

The Department's description

Exterior description and setting

A small two-storey gabled house with a chimney on one gable.

Main entrance faces west. West elevation is two windows wide. Roof of Bangor Blue slates in regular courses, flush with gables; dark toned ridge tiles. Cast iron gutter. Walls of rubble stonework, partly rough rendered, limewashed, and whitened; projecting eaves course, whitened. Ground floor has a rectangular doorway to left with rectangular window to right; two windows to first floor. Windows rectangular timber sliding sash, vertically hung, 2 over 2, with horns, painted white, with exposed sash boxes painted green; whitened reveals; projecting concrete cill painted green. Door rectangular ledged timber with small rectangular fanlight of patterned glass below slightly recessed door head; all woodwork of doorway painted green; brass door handle and latch, new, of traditional pattern; plain brass letterbox; concrete doorstep. One chimney, on right hand gable, constructed of firebrick, with projecting string course; one pot, with cowl, modern, of red terracotta, small TV aerial attached to front. Extending to right hand side is a low dry stone wall of basalt and limestone rubble.

North elevation formed by north gable: walling as previous, with rounded corner to left hand side; Local Authority street sign attached. Extending to left is a low rubble stone boundary wall to rear garden, whitened, with unwhitened basalt rock and boulder copings.

East elevation: two-storey; roof and walling as previous to entrance elevation. Gutter as previous, with circular cast iron downpipe to left hand side. Rectangular doorway to left of rectangular window to ground floor; two rectangular windows to first floor. Door rectangular, flush timber with translucent glazed panel; door and frame painted green. Windows sashed and painted as on entrance front except one to right on first floor which is a rectangular fixed light with top-hung vent and contains translucent glass. Projecting from facade to left of door is a broad flat topped stone. Circular PVC soil pipe and black painted electrical trunking to right hand side of elevation.

South elevation formed by south gable: walling as previous but incorporates whitened brickwork in two areas below chimney, one directly below extending from ground level, and one to the right raking up from first floor level. Chimney on apex of gable. Cast iron gutter across whole gable, returned from front and rear elevation. Projecting from left hand extremity of gable is a short nib of whitened rubble wall just above first floor level, and projecting forward from it is a low dry stone wall of basalt and limestone rubble.

Setting: the house stands on a corner site on the east side of the main street in the village, facing directly on to the street with its north gable directly on to a side road. It stands at the bottom of a run of listed houses on a sloping street, linked to them at the front by a low boundary wall. Directly outside the front door is the main tarmacadam road, without pavement. To the south is a small garden containing a lawn separated from the house by a flower bed and path; to the rear is a tarmac yard surrounded by low hedges and containing small garden sheds. Boundary to side road at rear formed by low stone wall, backed by hedging, and containing a plain iron vehicular gate. Boundary to south formed by gable of house at no 8, and a low dry stone wall linked to the gable by a small wooden gate.

To the east end of the low stone wall stands a pair of pig-houses: single-storey with low walls of basalt rubble symmetrically planned with a small rectangular open doorway to each house within a small rectangular forecourt entered through a pair of rectangular openings which retain iron hinges for gates but now missing gates; one gate loose within yard. Roof of pig-houses: Bangor Blue slates in regular courses with black ridge tiles; in poor condition, with sagging to each ridge. Interiors rubble walled, partially whitened.

Historical information

Appears on OS map of 1832.

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 single-storey and thatched).
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 this house and also shows a thatched single-storey cottage to its south].
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 but with the single-storey cottage to its south replaced by a low wall].
3. The Ulster Year Book 1997 (Appletree Press, Belfast) - reproduces watercolour by A Nicholl, c 1828.

Criteria for listing: architectural interest

B. Proportion
C. Ornamentation
D. Plan Form
H-. Alterations detracting from building
J. Setting

Criteria for listing: historic interest

X. Local Interest

Evaluation

This is a house of early 19th century date displaying the informal proportions and some of the details characteristic of its vernacular Georgian type, and retaining the essence of its original exterior appearance. It enjoys a pleasant setting, and with the adjacent terrace of contemporary houses with which it is linked, forms part of an attractive and important group which is of considerable local interest