16 Ballyharvey Road

The Department's description

Exterior description and setting

A group of rubble stone and rendered buildings comprising a two-storey house with attached one-storey outbuildings, all showing evidence of alteration and modernisation.

Described in the first survey in 1972 as "Roughcast farm buildings with a single-storey dwelling to east. A square entrance with quatrefoil ornament is flanked by two twelve-pane windows either side. The hall is vaulted."
The former "single-storey dwelling to east" is now used as an outbuilding: it has lost its original entrance which is now a rectangular opening dressed with concrete and containing modern flush timber doors; windows retain decorative smooth cement rendered surrounds but are closed up with corrugated iron; roof of modern red tiles; chimneys of red brick; rainwater goods of cast iron and PVC.

The two-storey house has a red tiled roof; modern rectangular PVC windows; red brick chimneys. Lower wing to west has a slated roof; outbuildings have asbestos slates to roofs.

Historical information

Precise date of buildings not known, but some buildings appear on the site on the OS map of 1832; the main arrangement of buildings appears in its essential form on the OS map of 1857.

References – Primary Sources
1. OS Map 1832, Co Antrim 50.
2. OS Map 1857, Co Antrim 50.

Criteria for listing: architectural interest

Not listed

Criteria for listing: historic interest

Not listed

Evaluation

This is a group of buildings of essentially early 19th century date but no special architectural interest which have lost many of their original features.