No.4 Deanfield

The Department's description

Exterior description and setting

Detached three-bay two-storey Victorian style Arts and Crafts style house of rough-cast render painted finish with red brick dressings. Built c.1904. Irregular plan form with projecting two-storey rough-cast rendered gable-end to south west side and large two-storey return to rear with pitched roof perpendicular to main house. Principal elevation faces South-west, accessed via a short driveway onto Deanfield, a residential area built at the end of the 1800s, off the Limavady Road to the north-east side of Derry city.

Pitched natural slate roof with three short corbelled red-brick chimney stacks; terracotta rolled ridge tiles, replacement decorative timber truss and timber barge boards to gable ends; half-round cast-aluminium guttering discharging to circular painted cast-aluminium downpipes throughout.

South-west front elevation is of rough-cast render painted finish with a projecting two-storey gable-end bay to the left side; there is a three-sided bay window to either side of the entrance doorway, the left has a flat lead clad roof; pitched slate roof on right side bay to main elevation spans the width of elevation extending above the entrance doorway forming porch with red brick plinth wall supporting turned timber newel posts and balusters at low and high level; first floor coupled windows are square-headed; all windows are replacement uPVC top-hung, all on continuous painted masonry sills and red-brick surrounds; wall head dormer to right side; principal entrance is approached via two concrete steps leading to a half round entrance opening containing three-panel timber painted double doors and plain fanlight above, all set within a brick painted architrave surround, door has original brass doorbell to the right side.

North-west elevation is of rough-cast render painted finish with red-brick stepped quoins and irregular fenestration pattern; small single storey modern extension to left side with artificial slate pitched roof. All windows are square-headed replacement uPVC windows to first floor aligned with ground floor windows; string course below flush masonry window cills. Small wall-head dormer to left side. Red-brick chimney mid-ridge slightly off centre to right side. Replacement decorative timber truss and timber barge boards to gable.

North-east elevation to rear is of rough-cast render painted finish with twin two storey gabled projections and single storey modern extensions; left extension of blue engineering brick and flat roof with small parapet; right extension of smooth render and pitched artificial slate roof. Two windows to original building return to left side with square headed openings, replacement uPVC windows on masonry cills and red-brick stepped quoins.

South-east elevation is of rough-cast render painted finish with red-brick stepped quoins to main block and recessed return; regular fenestration pattern with segmental-headed openings; large window at either side of main elevation at ground floor level with single window aligned above to left side. Continuous string course under cill level at ground floor with red-brick plinth below; continuous cill course to first floor level. Coupled window to ground floor of rear return with projecting single half dormer window above on corbelled red-brick support. Replacement decorative timber truss and timber bardgeboards to gable and dormer.

Materials:
Roof Natural Slate
RWG Cast-aluminium
Walling Rough-cast render painted
Windows uPVC

Setting:
Located on the North east side of Coshquin Road. Built c.1904. Principal elevation faces south-west, accessed via a short driveway onto Deanfield, a residential area built at the end of the 1800s, off the Limavady road to the north-east side of Derry city.

Historical information

The development of Deanfield as a residential area dates from the end of the 1800s. This property, comprising a house, yard and garden, appears as a new entry in the Valuation Revision Books in 1904 (where it is identified on the early twentieth-century valuation map as property no. 3, Deanfield Park) with a valuation of £44 10s. The immediate lessor of the property was Eliza Pollock. The house was initially listed as vacant, but in 1914 the occupier was recorded as John H. Pollock.

Pollock, a commission agent who named the house Ard-na-Hona, died on 6 January 1940. His widow Emily Rosa Pollock continued to live in the house for a number of years after this, but by 1948 it was in the possession of Dr William E. Steele. By 1955 its ownership had passed to Norah Young.

References

Primary sources
1. PRONI, Valuation map, c. 1908–c.1918, VAL/12/D/5/14D (based on Ordnance Survey map published in 1907)
2. PRONI, Valuation index map, [c.1873]-1910, VAL/12/E/157/2
3. PRONI, Ordnance Survey map, 1933, OS/6/5/14/4
4. PRONI, Ordnance Survey map, 1954, OS/6/5/14/5
5. PRONI, Ordnance Survey map, 1964, OS/6/5/14/6
6. PRONI, Valuation Revision Books, 1898-1930, VAL/12/B/33/4A-E
7. PRONI, Annual Revisions List of the First General Revaluation, 1936-57, VAL/3/C/6/13

Secondary sources
1. Daniel Calley, City of Derry: An Historical Gazetteer to the Buildings of Londonderry (Belfast: Ulster Architectural Heritage Society, 2013)

Online sources
1. 1901 and 1911 census returns: www.census.nationalarchives.ie
2. PRONI, Will Calendars: www.proni.gov.uk

Criteria for listing: architectural interest

Not listed

Criteria for listing: historic interest

Not listed

Evaluation

Detached three-bay two-storey Victorian style, Edwardian Arts and Crafts style house of rough-cast render painted finish with red brick dressings, built c.1904. The dwelling is accessed via a short driveway onto Deanfield, a residential area built at the end of the 1800s, off the Limavady road to the north-east side of Derry city. A well proportioned house from the Edwardian period, retaining some elements of historic detailing, however modern extensions to the rear and the installation of PVC windows throughout detract from its original historic character. The house is of local significance - it does not meet the test for listing.