14 Lodge Road

The Department's description

Exterior description and setting

A two-bay three-storey-with-attic mid-terrace former dwelling, now in use as temporary accommodation; built 1880 and located to the east side of Lodge Road in Coleraine. Rectangular plan with modern two-storey return to rear.

Pitched natural slate roofs with blue/black angled ridge tiles and rendered chimneystacks; tall rendered chimneystack. Cast-iron ogee rainwater goods on bracketted eaves. Walling is painted smooth render on a contrasting plinth with moulded string-course between ground and first floor; continuous sill course at first floor and moulded platband under eaves. Windows are 1/1 timber sash with horns in stop-end chamfered reveals and projecting painted sills. Tripartite timber-sheeted gabled dormer to attic having round-headed window openings and decorative bargeboards with trefoil detailing and finial.

The principal elevation faces southwest and has three openings at each floor with entrance at ground floor left, comprising bolection-moulded four-panelled timber door with plain transom light in a stop-end chamfered reveal. Entrance is flanked by pilasters and surmounted by plain entablature having ovolo-moulded cornice; accessed by a modern paved ramp.

The northwest elevation is abutted by adjoining building (HB03/17/003F).

The northeast (rear) elevation has modern two-storey return at right; modern dormer window to attic, and modern timber casement window to each floor at left.

The southeast elevation is abutted by adjoining building (HB03/17/003H).

Setting:

Situated to the east side of Lodge Road in Coleraine town centre. Set back from the street with a small gravelled yard to front with concrete paved pathway, enclosed by painted render wall with saddleback coping and square piers having pointed caps.

Tarmacadamed alley to northwest of terrace gives access to car-park at east. Bounded by rubblestone wall at north. Small paved yard to rear of building, enclosed by a high painted render wall and two-storey outbuilding. Outbuilding forms part of a terrace and has painted smooth rendered walls, slated roofs and rendered chimneystacks. The northeast elevation of outbuilding has two 2/2 timber sash windows with painted sills at first floor and has been modified at ground floor.

Roof: Natural slate
Walling: Painted smooth render
Windows: 1/1 timber sash with horns
RWG: Cast-iron

Historical information

The current dwelling dates from 1880 and is part of a development of sixteen houses built between c1859 and c1888 and occupied largely by middle-class residents, many of them connected with customs and excise. The terrace is first shown on the large scale map of Coleraine dating from 1882 and the group of four houses (numbers 10-16), of which the current dwelling is part, was inserted into valuation records in 1880. The house is named ‘Marie Ho[use]’ on valuation and large-scale maps of the 1880s. The terrace was considered to be on the best, because sunniest, side of Lodge Road and was occupied largely by middle-class merchants and professionals who kept at least one servant. Lodge Road was laid out between 1833 and 1845, being first shown on O’Hagan’s map of Coleraine dating from 1845 and is named after ‘The Lodge’, a dwelling house at the southern end (now replaced by a hotel). The closing decades of the nineteenth century saw a building boom of terraces and villas in Coleraine of which local people were extremely proud. The boom is said to have begun in the late 1850s when Thomas Boyd built Waterford Terrace at numbers 26 to 32 (Mullin).

The house, offices, yard and small garden was initially valued at £24.10s, occupied by Henry A Macauley (1881) and leased from Thomas Flanagan. Subsequent occupiers were John McMurbry (1887), and the Flanagan family, who were the landlords, from the 1890s. At the time of the 1901 census the occupier was Thomas Flanagan, a pawnbroker and widower who lived with his two adult daughters and his grandson and kept a domestic servant from Tyrone. Flanagan’s unmarried daughter assisted him in the pawnbroker’s business and the eleven-room house was designated first class. The 1911 census records the occupier as William Lyons, a customs and excise supervisor who lived with his English-born wife and six children who had been born in various parts of the British Isles, suggesting that the family had travelled in connection with Flanagan’s employment. In 1914 the house was taken over by Samuel McCreery, then by Fanny Wright (1915) and Robert McIntosh (1918), the McIntosh’s remaining resident until at least the 1950s.

Valuer’s notes of the 1930s list the accommodation as, on the ground floor, a reception, kitchen, scullery and pantry, on the first floor, a reception and two bedrooms, on the second floor, two bedrooms and a bathroom and on the third floor two attic bedrooms. The house had water laid on and gas lighting at this time and a plan is given showing the house, return and an outbuilding at the bottom of the yard that is still present.

The house was listed in 1977 and in 1986 was converted, with its neighbour at number 16 into a single homeless hostel for the Simon Community. This entailed some rebuilding at the rear and restructuring of the interior (HB file).

References:

Primary Sources

1. PRONI OS/6/5/7/1 First Edition OS Map 1830
2. PRONI OS/6/5/7/2 Second Edition OS map 1849-50
3. PRONI OS/6/5/7/3 Third Edition OS Map 1904
4. PRONI OS/6/5/7/4 Fourth Edition OS Map 1923
5. PRONI OS/6/5/7/5 Fifth Edition OS Map 1949
6. PRONI VAL/12A/5/11-13 Valuer’s Notes 1900-1912
7. PRONI VAL/12/B/30/9A-N Annual Revisions (1864-1929)
8. PRONI VAL/3/C/6/4 First General Revaluation 1933-57
9. PRONI VAL/3/D/6/2/H/23-24 First General Revaluation 1933-57
10. HB file – 03/17/003A-P
11. 1901/1911 census online

Secondary Sources

1. Girvan, W D “Historic Buildings, Groups of Buildings, Areas of Architectural Importance in Coleraine and Portstewart” Ulster Architectural Heritage Society, 1971-2
2. Mullin, Rev T H “Coleraine in Modern Times” Belfast: Century Services Ltd, 1979

Criteria for listing: architectural interest

A. Style
B. Proportion
C. Ornamentation
H-. Alterations detracting from building
I. Quality and survival of Interior
J. Setting
K. Group value

Criteria for listing: historic interest

X. Local Interest
R. Age
S. Authenticity

Evaluation

A two-bay three-storey-with-attic mid-terrace former dwelling, now in use as temporary accommodation; built 1880 and located to the east side of Lodge Road in Coleraine. Architectural detailing is largely intact, and the building forms part of an important and prominent terrace,(HB03/17/003A-P), situated in the heart of Coleraine. Coleraine is largely characterised by its development within the Victorian era, and the terrace is one of the best preserved examples of mid-to-late-nineteenth century terraced architecture, displaying proportions and details typical of the period. Making an important contribution to the architectural character of Coleraine town centre the terrace is also of significant local interest.

General comments

Additional listing criteria apply - R - Age, S- Authenticity.