18 Lodge Road

The Department's description

Exterior description and setting

A two-bay three-storey-with-attic mid-terrace former dwelling, now dentist’s surgery; built c.1888 and located to the east side of Lodge Road in Coleraine town centre. Square on plan with three-storey gabled return and modern single-storey flat-roof extension to rear.

Pitched natural slate roof with blue/black angled ridge tiles and rendered chimneystacks; rendered chimneystack to gable of rear return, having moulded cap and two terracotta pots. Cast-iron ogee rainwater goods on projecting bracketted eaves. Walling is painted smooth render on a moulded plinth with moulded string course and drip mould between floors, corniced entablature over first floor and continuous sill course at all floors; painted roughcast render to rear elevation. Windows are 1/1 timber sash with horns (unless otherwise stated), in lugged and moulded surrounds to ground and first floor; lugged to second floor with projecting moulded sills on console brackets with panelled aprons.

The principal elevation faces southwest and is three openings wide at each floor; paired windows to right bay and simple windows over entrance. Entrance to ground floor left comprises raised-and-fielded six-panel timber door with brass door furniture in a round-headed reveal with round-headed transom light. Doorway has spandrel panels, is flanked by half-fluted pilasters and surmounted by pedimented entablature; accessed via a single concrete step.

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

The northeast (rear) elevation is abutted by the three-storey gabled return, having 2/2 sash windows at second floor, and one to first floor right; modern uPVC window to first floor left. Abutted at ground floor by the modern single-storey flat-roof extension (of no interest).

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

Setting:

Situated to the east side of Lodge Road in Coleraine town centre. Set back from the street with paving to front, bounded by hedges and painted render wall with coping stones topped by modern metal railing; square gate piers with caps to entrance. Tarmacadamed alley to southeast and northwest of terrace give access to car-park at east. Small yard to rear of building enclosed to northeast by a two-storey roughcast rendered outbuilding. Outbuilding has large open square-headed carriage-arch entrance and variety of window openings, including a small 1/1 sash window to ground floor at southwest elevation and a 2/2 window to first floor left at northeast elevation.

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

Historical information

The current dwelling dates from c1888 and is part of a development of sixteen houses built between c1859 and c1888 for Coleraine's rising middle-classes The terrace is first shown in its complete form on the third edition OS map of 1904 and the current house was the last in the terrace to be built, being inserted into valuation records c1888. 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 £30, occupied by Rev Francis S Gardiner and leased from James McMullen who was most likely the developer. Subsequent occupiers were the James Hay (1891), and John H Bamford (1892) a wholesale grocer, who was resident at the time of the 1901 census with his wife, mother-in-law and five children and employed a general domestic servant. (1901census). In 1916 the house was taken over by Charles L Doddie and then by Godfrey Bateman MD (1926) and in 1931 by Dr Green.

Valuer’s notes of the 1930s list the accommodation as, on the ground floor, a waiting room, surgery, dispensary, kitchen, scullery and pantry, on the first floor, one reception, one bedroom, bathroom, WC and linen room on the second floor, three bedrooms 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, shed and closet in the yard and an outbuilding at the bottom of the yard that is still present.

The house was listed in 1977 and in 2008 was converted from offices to a dental surgery (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
D. Plan Form
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 dentist’s surgery; built c.1888 and located to the east side of Lodge Road in Coleraine town centre. Architectural detailing is largely intact and is typically Victorian in character. Forming part of an important and prominent group(HB03/17/003A-P), the terrace is amongst the best preserved examples of mid-to-late-nineteenth century terraced architecture in Coleraine, which is largely characterised by its development during the Victorian era. One of the most intact in the terrace, number 18 makes 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.