9 Glenoe Village

The Department's description

Exterior description and setting

This house is combined in one dwelling with No 8 Glenoe Village and is described under HB06/05/025C.

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 8 by linking them internally by stairs to accommodate the change in level, thickened the party wall between them, and altered the stone corbelling at the front to suit.

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), p 21 [photo of Glenoe includes 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.