Gateside

The Department's description

Exterior description and setting

Detached four-bay two-storey vernacular house built c.1830, and located to the east of Ballyeaston Road, Ballyclare. Rectangular on plan with single-storey return to each gable.

Roof is pitched natural slate with blue/black clay ridge tiles and rendered verges; brick gable chimneystacks, clay pots. Half-round cast-iron rainwater goods; walls are roughcast rendered; windows are 2/2 vertically-divided timber sliding sashes with painted masonry cills.

Principal elevation faces north and contains off-centre entrance to left within flat-roofed storm porch; windows at each side; timber sheeted door to right bay followed by a further window to right; four windows at first floor. Entrance comprises a panelled door (six fixed panels with six glazed panes over.)

Left gable is abutted by single-storey outbuilding with pitched corrugated metal roof. Exposed section is blank.

Rear elevation has two windows at ground floor; four windows at first floor (second from right is segmental headed.)

Right gable is abutted by single-storey return with pitched natural slate roof. Exposed section is blank.

Left gable return has timber sheeted door to north; east gable is abutted by single-storey lean-to extension. Rear elevation is blank.

Right gable return north elevation has central timber sheeted door with window to left; west gable is abutted by single-storey lean-to extension with corrugated metal roof. Rear elevation has exposed random rubble walling with two timber casement windows.

Setting

Set within its original farm
setting with outbuildings to north; accessed by a lane to the east of the Ballyeaston Road, Ballyclare.

Roof: Natural Slate
Walling: Roughcast Render
Windows: 2/2 vertically divided timber sliding sashes with painted masonry cills
Rainwater goods: Half-round cast-iron

Historical information

The first edition OS Map of 1832 shows a building on the south side of the road. The 1857 map shows an additional building parallel to this on the other side of the road.

Valuation Revisions records a ‘house, offices and land’occupied by Alex Agnew. The building is valued at £1.10s.

References:
Primary Sources

1. PRONI OS/6/1/45/1 - First Edition OS Map(1832)
2. PRONI OS/6/1/45/2 - Second Edition OS Map (1857)
3. PRONI OS/6/1/45/3 - Third Edition OS Map (192)
4. PRONI VAL/12/B/1/4A - Valuation Revisions (1864-1866)

Criteria for listing: architectural interest

A. Style
B. Proportion
C. Ornamentation
D. Plan Form
I. Quality and survival of Interior
J. Setting

Criteria for listing: historic interest

X. Local Interest

Evaluation

Detached four-bay two-storey vernacular house built c.1830. It is largely intact with most of its historic fabric and detailing surviving, and as such it is of special interest as a representative of the rural vernacular, much of which has been lost. The house is preserved within its original setting and and farmyard to north-east, which contirbutes to its overall character.