8 Glenoe Village

The Department's description

Exterior description and setting

A small two-storey house in a terrace that consisted formerly of four houses, now combined with the house (formerly No 9) stepping up the hill from it to the south, to form one dwelling.

Main entrance faces west. West elevation of original No 8 is two windows wide. Roof of Bangor Blue slates in regular courses, continuous with the roof of adjoining house to the left and contained by gable of adjoining house to right; dark toned ridge tiles. Overhanging eaves with cast iron gutter on white painted fascia; circular cast iron downpipe to left hand side. Walling is rubble stonework limewashed and whitened. Windows rectangular timber sliding sash, vertically hung, 4 over 3, with horns, with exposed sash boxes, all painted green. Wooden lintels painted green; whitened reveals to sides; projecting concrete cills painted green. Door rectangular timber ledged in recessed moulded wooden surround with timber lintel; modern iron door latch in traditional pattern; whitened reveals to sides; stone pavings to front doorstep with stone cobbled area to left of doorway, below level of roadway, and basalt and limestone blocks stepped up path to right of doorway in angle with projecting face of No 9.

House to right, formerly No 9, steps up the hill and steps forward: two-storey, three windows wide; original main entrance faces west. West elevation of former No 9 is three windows wide: roof similar to No 8, with overhanging verge to left hand gable. Two chimneys, one projecting from left hand gable and one near centre of ridge, constructed of brick with projecting cornice, all whitened; two old stoneware pots to each chimney. Overhanging eaves with cast iron gutter on white painted timber fascia; circular cast iron downpipe to right hand side raking down to connect with downpipe of adjoining house to right (No 10). Walling as previous to No 8 with four whitened corbels to left hand extremity to carry first floor. Three windows to first floor, detailed as previous to No 8, but sashed 2 over 1; one similar window to ground floor between two doorways, but sashed 2 over 2. Doors as previous to No 8, except the left hand one has a modern plain brass letterbox and the right hand one has no ironmongery at all; concrete pavoirs to resemble stone slabs to front of left hand door, with rubble stone paving to right extending up hill past door to right.

Rear elevation of No 8 is two-storey, two windows wide; roof slated as to front, continuous with roof of house adjoining to right (No 7) but contained by gable of house to left; overhanging eaves; cast iron gutter; walling as previous to entrance front. Two windows to first floor, detailed as to entrance front but left hand one sashed 1 over 1, without horns, and right hand one sashed 2 over 1, without horns; two windows to ground floor, similar, but both sashed 2 over 1, without horns; central door rectangular timber ledged with glazed panel in moulded recessed wooden surround with wooden lintel, all painted green; whitened reveals; concrete step. Area outside door paved with modern concrete flags, bordered to right by whitened rubble screen wall with concrete copings, originally side wall of a rear return. Yard bordered to left by rockery garden stepping up slope of hill to flower bed and lawn to rear of No 9.

Rear elevation of No 9 is two-storey; roof slated as previous; cast iron gutter with circular cast iron downpipe to right hand side; PVC soil pipe in centre, painted green; walling as previous to front; two windows to each floor detailed as to entrance front except right hand window on each floor has recessed cill; windows all sashed 2 over 1, with horns, except left hand ground floor which is 2 over 2, with horns. Boundary to south side of rear garden formed by low wall, rendered and whitened, with basalt rubble and boulder copings.

Setting: the conjoined houses comprising no 8 and the former No 9 stand in a short terrace on the east side of the main street, stepping up the hill to the south, facing onto the street and set back slightly from a narrow pavement. The adjoining houses are of similar materials and detailing. There are grassy lawns to the rear laid out on two levels with a rockery between. Boundary of rear garden on north side is formed by a tall whitened rubble wall extending to a wooden fence; boundary on south side formed by a low whitened rubble wall with rubble copings, extending to a wooden fence.

Historical information

Appears on OS map of 1832. Restored in 1992-3 by the Hearth housing association, who combined it into one dwelling with No 9 by linking them internally by stairs to accommodate the change in level and thickened the party wall between them.

References - Primary Sources

1. Andrew Nicholl, 'Village of Glenoe, near Larne', c 1828, watercolour (catalogue no 1706) in Ulster Museum (shows original setting but this house not depicted, either not yet built or hidden behind building line).
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. Photographs in Green Collection, UFTM (WAG 1099 and 2973).

Secondary Sources

1. 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].
2. Country Life, 17 March 1994, pp 62-63.
3. HEARTH Review, 1994, p 47.
4. C.E.B. Brett, Buildings of County Antrim (UAHS, Belfast, 1996), p 227.
5. 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
I. Quality and survival of Interior
J. Setting
K. Group value

Criteria for listing: historic interest

X. Local Interest

Evaluation

This is a domestic property 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 rest of the houses in the terrace, forms part of an attractive and important group which is of considerable local interest