58 Dunedin Terrace

The Department's description

Exterior description and setting

A two-bay two-storey-with-attic end-terrace townhouse; built c.1880 to designs by J & W Kirkpatrick and located to the north side of Lodge Road in Coleraine town centre. Square on plan with two-storey canted bay and two-storey return to rear.

Mansard natural slate roof with blue/black angled ridge tiles and fish-scale tiles; natural slate roof with leaded hips and ridges to canted bay. Replacement red-brick chimneystack to gable. Cast-iron ogee rainwater goods on projecting eaves course. Walling is painted smooth render on a contrasting plinth, with platband between floors; moulded eaves cornice; painted roughcast render to rear return. Windows are segmental-headed 1/1 timber sash with horns and projecting painted sills (boarded at ground floor); two gabled dormers to attic having multi-paned timber windows in timber frame with carved brackets under eaves.

The principal elevation faces southwest; two-storey canted bay at left with window to each facet; entrance door to ground floor right with 1/1 window over at first floor. Bolection-moulded four-panelled timber door with brass knob in a segmental-headed doorcase with etched glass panelled sidelights and transom light reading “GALBRAITH”.

The northwest gable has a small window opening to attic; elongated 1/1 window at first floor and boarded window openings at ground floor.

The northeast (rear) elevation was only partially viewed (see surveyor’s comments). Gabled dormer and large wall-head dormer to attic; 1/1 window to first floor right; at left is the two-storey gabled return, having modern timber windows at first floor of gable and right cheek.

The southeast gable is abutted by adjoining building (HB03/17/005B).

Setting:

Situated to the north side of Lodge Road in a residential area on the approach to the town centre. Set back from the road with long garden to front, bounded by mature hedges; low rendered wall with saddleback coping and wrought-iron latch-gate to front. Brick pavior path to entrance door. Rear yard enclosed by high cement rendered wall; to northeast is a two-storey slated outbuilding, forming part of a terrace. Outbuilding has cement rendered walls (painted to southwest elevation) and plastic rainwater goods. Northeast elevation has modern window to first floor right over modern timber-sheeted half-door and narrow window. Concrete communal yard to northeast has gravelled parking area.

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

Historical information

The current dwelling dates from 1880 and forms part of a terrace of seven houses, the only known work by local architects and brothers, J & W Kirkpatrick of Blindgate Street, Coleraine (Girvan, ww.dia.ie). 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 the Coleraine end of Lodge Road (Mullin).

The terrace is entered into valuation records in 1880, given the name ‘Dunedin’ in 1881 and is first shown on the third edition OS map of 1904. The first occupant to be noted is Mrs Rankin and the house, office, yard and small garden, was leased from Oliver H Liken. The house was valued at £22 initially but reduced to £20 in 1887, probably as the result of an appeal. The house subsequently became the home of the landlord, Oliver H Liken and then of Alexander G Crawford from 1892. Robert O’Neill, solicitor, was the next occupier in 1893, followed by William James Thompson (1900), Oliver H Liken, once again (1907) William Todd (1912) and James B Stewart (1911). William James Thompson was a house furnisher who lived with his wife and young daughter and employed a general domestic and a nursemaid (1911 census).

Subsequent occupiers were Elizabeth Stewart (1913), Samuel Callaghan (1919) and James McCandless (1924), who added a motor house to the plot in 1927 (located to the north of the rear communal yard and still present) causing the valuation to be increased to £23. Valuer’s notes of the 1930s give the accommodation as a reception, kitchen, scullery and pantry on the ground floor, two bedrooms, a bathroom, WC and reception on the first floor and three bedrooms on the second floor. In the 1930s the houses were said to have cost £1400 each to build, had gas lighting and the rear outbuilding was cobbled inside.

The house was listed in 1977 and renovations took place in the 1980s which included the underpinning, tying and extending of the gable wall. (HB file) The building is currently vacant.

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/12/B/30/9A-N Annual Revisions (1864-1929)
7. PRONI VAL/3/C/6/4 First General Revaluation 1933-57
8. PRONI VAL/3/D/6/2/H/23-24 First General Revaluation 1933-57
9. HB file – 03/17/005A-G

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
3. www.dia.ie

Criteria for listing: architectural interest

A. Style
B. Proportion
C. Ornamentation
J. Setting
K. Group value

Criteria for listing: historic interest

R. Age
S. Authenticity
X. Local Interest

Evaluation

A two-bay two-storey-with-attic end-terrace townhouse; built c.1880 to designs by J & W Kirkpatrick and located to the north side of Lodge Road in Coleraine town centre. Retaining much of its original detailing, this is a relatively well-preserved example of a late-Victorian terraced townhouse. Forming part of a prominent terrace, in a town largely characterised by its development during the Victorian era, Dunedin Terrace is one of the best preserved representative examples of late-nineteenth century terraced architecture in Coleraine. No 58 has group value with the other listed buildings in the terrace and is of significant local interest.

General comments

Listing Criteria R - Age; and S - Authenticity also apply.