66 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; rendered 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. Windows are segmental-headed 1/1 timber sash without horns, having projecting painted sills; square-headed with continuous sill course at ground floor of canted bay; two gabled dormers to attic having 1/1 round-headed window in a timber frame with carved timber 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 plain transom light; door accessed via single stone step.

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

The northeast (rear) elevation was not viewed. Two-storey gabled return at left.

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

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 a modern timber fence; concrete pathway to entrance door. Smooth rendered wall with saddleback coping to entrance, with wrought-iron latch-gate. Rear yard enclosed to northeast by a two-storey painted smooth render slated outbuilding; forming part of a terrace Outbuilding has, to northeast elevation, 2/2 timber sash window to right at first floor and 2/2 sash window insertion and timber-sheeted door to right, both under timber lintel. Concrete communal yard to northeast has gravelled parking area.

Roof: Natural slate
Walling: Painted smooth render
Windows: 1/1 timber sash without horns
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 occupier to be noted was Mrs Rankin in 1881, followed by William Rankin in 1882 and the house, office, yard and small garden, was leased from John Fisher. The house was valued at £22 initially but reduced to £20 in 1887, probably as the result of an appeal. Frederick W Crawford became the occupier in 1893 but the house was vacant at the time of the 1901 census (1901 census). C W J McDonald was the next resident in 1903, followed by Samuel A Wray in 1911. The 1911 census records Wray as a solicitor who lived with his wife and young daughter. The couple kept a sixteen-year-old domestic servant (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 William Moody (1919) and Selina Magee and Mary Jamison (1931) who remained resident until at least the 1950s. 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.

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/A/5/13 Valuer’s notes 1909-12
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 – 03/17/005A-G
11. 1901/1911 census

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 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 a 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 66 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