Outbuilding beside bridge at

The Department's description

Exterior description and setting

A two-storey gabled building of rubble stone with red brick to the corners, all whitened.

Main entrance originally faced west but now faces east.

East elevation two-storey; roof slated, mainly of asbestos slates; openings have brick arches or wooden lintels, all whitened; upper openings almost all blocked using concrete blockwork; projecting concrete cills; two doorways, one brick-arched with old wooden door, one a large modern rectangular opening with concrete lintel, used as a garage entrance, formerly for a tractor.

South elevation is plain south gable.

West elevation, facing road, is two-storey; roof in poor condition, slated, with gable upstands in cement; truncated red brick chimney. Openings in wall are as follows, from left to right: rectangular timber ledged door at upper level; timber sliding sash window, vertically hung, 2 over 2, with margins, with projecting concrete cill, but lower sash obscured by whitened brickwork blocking it up; below that, a blocked up doorway; rectangular window at upper level, timber sliding sash as previous, with projecting concrete cill; rectangular ledged timber door at upper level. A number of wooden lintels are built into wall at basement level but openings now blocked.

North elevation is north gable; walling as previous; one rectangular timber sliding sash window, 2 over 2, with margins, in whitened brick surround, to first floor; projecting concrete cill.

Setting: the building stands on the east side of the main street of the village, with its entrance originally facing directly on to the street but now facing away from it. To the south is a rubble stone bridge whose parapet stops just short of the south gable; to the east is a two-storey house in whose grounds this building stands. Grassed over to east and south, with small metal framed greenhouse to south side.

Historical information

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

References - Primary Sources

1. OS Map 1832, Co Antrim 46.
2. Ordnance Survey Memoirs of Ireland, Vol 32: Parishes of Co Antrim XII (Belfast, 1995), p 89 [“Glenoe ... consists almost exclusively of one little street, which straggles for 190 yards up the steep declivity in an exceedingly crooked direction. Its dwellings, 17 in number, are of a very humble description and are in most instances in bad repair. Not more than 4 are to be found together, the others straggling at irregular distances. 2 only possess a second floor, 10 are slated and 7 are roofed with thatch. All are built of stone and lime. They are neither neat nor cleanly in their appearance, nor substantial nor comfortable in their construction. Few of them are roughcast or whitened.”]

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 building].
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), p 20 [photo of Glenoe includes this building].

Criteria for listing: architectural interest

Not listed

Criteria for listing: historic interest

Not listed

Evaluation

This is a building of early 19th century date displaying the informal proportions characteristic of its vernacular type and enjoying a pleasant setting next to an old bridge and contributing an element of vernacular charm to the main street, but it has lost its original details and some of its original appearance.