60 Dunedin Terrace

The Department's description

Exterior description and setting

A two-bay two-storey-with-attic mid-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; slate roof with leaded hips and ridges to canted bay. Replacement red-brick chimneystack. 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 uPVC replacements in segmental-headed surrounds with projecting painted sills; square-headed with continuous sill course to ground floor of canted bay; two gabled dormers to attic with uPVC window in original segmental-headed 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 window over at first floor. Original bolection-moulded four-panelled timber door with bronze door furniture, in a segmental-headed doorcase with panelled sidelights and transom light etched with “60”.

The northwest elevation is abutted by adjoining building (HB03/17/005A).

The northeast (rear) elevation has gabled dormer at attic and window to first and ground floor right. Abutted at left by the two-storey gabled return with uPVC windows to gable and right cheek.

The southeast elevation is abutted by adjoining building (HB03/17/005C).

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 lawned garden to front, bounded by mature hedges and modern timber fencing; low rendered wall with saddleback coping and wrought-iron latch-gate to front. Rear yard enclosed by painted roughcast rendered wall; to northeast is a two-storey painted roughcast render slated outbuilding, forming part of a terrace. Outbuilding has, to southwest elevation; a square-headed carriage-arch opening with timber lintel at left, with multi-paned fixed timber window at first floor over; tripartite timber-framed window to ground floor right and abutted at far right by a slated lean-to return, opening to northwest with a timber-sheeted door. Northeast elevation has timber-sheeted gates to carriage-arch entrance and timber-sheeted loading door over. Concrete communal yard to northeast has gravelled parking area.

Roof: Natural slate
Walling: Painted smooth render
Windows: uPVC
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 occupants to be noted are Alexander Allen in 1881 and John Mains in 1883 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 Michael Scanlon (1887) and then of Elizabeth Walker (1890). Miss Lizzie Stewart was the next occupier in 1911, followed by the landlord, Oliver H Liken (1912). Elizabeth Walker was an unmarried 53 year old woman at the time of the 1901 census, living with her cousin Elizabeth Stewart who then took over the house. (1901 census) However, at the time of the 1911 census the occupier seems to have been widow, Auderiah Robertson from County Leitrim who lived with her three adult children. Her 41-year-old daughter had obtained a BA from the Royal University of Ireland and her son a teacher, had gained a BA from Trinity College, Dublin. Unusually, the family kept no servants. (1911 census) Dunedin Terrace was revalued in 1912, the value dropping to £18.10s. Valuer’s notes of this period show a plan of the house with two-storey rear extension and outbuildings at the rear of the yard, all still present.

Subsequent occupiers were John Caldwell (1914), Sarah Murdock (1927) and Mary, Jane and Winifred Murdock (nd). 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 1990s (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/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
D. Plan Form
H-. Alterations detracting from building
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 mid-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 an attractive and relatively well-preserved example of a typical late-Victorian terraced townhouse. Forming part of an important and 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 60 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.