22 Lodge Road

The Department's description

Exterior description and setting

A two-bay three-storey-with-attic mid-terraced former dwelling, now commercial premises, built 1886 and located to the east side of Lodge Road in Coleraine town centre. Square on plan with two-storey return and modern extension to rear.

Pitched natural slate roof with blue/black angled ridge tiles and rendered chimneystack. Cast-iron half-round rainwater goods on moulded eaves. Walling is painted smooth render with platband under eaves and continuous sill course to first floor. Windows are 1/1 timber sash with horns in stop-end chamfered reveals with projecting painted sills.

The principal elevation faces southwest and is three openings wide at each floor. Entrance to ground floor right comprises bolection-moulded four-panel timber door with plain transom light in a moulded reveal, accessed by a tiled step. Door is flanked by panelled pilasters with decorative console brackets supporting a corniced canopy.

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

The northeast (rear) elevation is abutted by an original two-storey return, which is further abutted by a large two-storey modern extension (of no interest), incorporating an original two-storey outbuilding.

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

Setting:

Situated to the east side of Lodge Road in Coleraine town centre. Set back from the street with paved yard to front, enclosed by hedges and a rendered wall with painted coping and square piers with caps. Tarmacadamed alley to northwest and southeast of terrace leads to car-park at east. Outbuilding to rear forms part of a terrace and is painted roughcast render with platband under eaves, having slated roof with modern skylights to ridge and rendered chimneystack. Northeast elevation has two replacement windows at first floor over a large square-headed opening with modern timber-sheeted gates.

Roof: Natural slate
Walling: Smooth render
Windows: 1/1 timber sash
RWG: Cast-iron

Historical information

The current dwelling dates from 1886 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 among the last in the terrace to be built, being inserted into valuation records in 1886 as a vacant, newly-built dwelling. 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, occupied by Frances B Louden (1888) and leased from James McMullen who was most likely the developer. At the time of the 1911 census the occupier was recorded as Matthew Given, the direct of a shirt collar factory, who lived with his sister and four adult children, his son also a manager in the factory (1911 census). The house remained in the Given family until at least the 1950s.

Valuer’s notes of the 1930s list the accommodation as, on the ground floor, reception, kitchen, scullery and pantry, on the first floor, one reception, two bedrooms, bathroom and on the second floor, two 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 and coal house in the yard and an outbuilding at the bottom of the yard that was cobbled and used partly as a garage and partly as a tool house (still present).

The house was listed in 1977 and converted to architect’s offices in the mid 1980s. Renovations and extension took place in 1990 enclosing the rear yard and merging the original outbuilding into the main house. (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
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-terraced former dwelling, now commercial premises; built 1886 and located to the east side of Lodge Road in Coleraine town centre. Despite extensive remodelling of the original planform the building retains some typical mid-Victorian features and is part of an important and prominent terrace situated in the heart of Coleraine. Coleraine is largely characterised by its development during the Victorian era, and this group (HB03/17/003A-P) is one of the best preserved examples of mid-to-late-nineteenth century terraced architecture in the town. 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.