Ballymoney Coastguard Station — BALLYMONEY LOWER

Detached five-bay two-storey coastguard station, built 1874-5, on a rectangular plan with single-bay two-stage "watch tower" (east) on a square plan. Occupied, 1901. Vacant, 1911. Closed, 1922. Hipped slate roof; pyramidal slate roof ("watch tower"), clay ridge tiles, rendered red brick Running bond chimney stacks having stringcourses below corbelled stepped capping supporting terracotta or yellow terracotta tapered pots, and cast-iron rainwater goods on exposed timber rafters retaining cast-iron downpipes. Part creeper- or ivy-covered roughcast walls on lichen-spotted cut-granite chamfered cushion course on tuck pointed snecked rubble stone plinth with concealed red brick flush quoins to corners. Square-headed window openings with cut-granite sills, and red brick block-and-start surrounds framing two-over-two timber sash windows. Square-headed window openings to rear (south) elevation with cut-granite sills, and concealed red brick block-and-start surrounds framing two-over-two timber sash windows. Set in landscaped grounds including terraces centred on flights of five moss-covered concrete steps.