88 Lodge Road

The Department's description

Exterior description and setting

Detached symmetrical three-bay single-storey with attic rendered house, built c.1820. T-shaped on plan with a two-storey gabled return. Set slightly back from Lodge Road to the east with an enclosed front garden, rear paddock and single-storey outbuilding abutting the rear enclosing a rear yard.

Pitched artificial slate roof with roll-moulded black clay ridge tiles, two rebuilt red brick chimneystacks with clay pots, decorative iron finials to both gables and timber bargeboard. Replacement uPVC rainwater goods and a pair of canted dormer windows, glazed on three sides with exposed rafter feet. Rough-cast rendered walling, replacement to the west gable and painted to remaining elevations. Generally square-headed window openings with painted masonry sills and original single-pane timber sash windows.

Symmetrical front elevation has a central door opening flanked by pairs of window openings. Mouldings below the eaves course form a plain frieze to this elevation only. Painted architrave surrounds to all window openings. Replacement tripartite timber glazed entrance screen surmounted by a pediment supported on foliate console brackets and pilaster strips. Three panelled timber door with stained and leaded upper light opens onto concrete step and platform within front garden.

West gable has replacement cement rendered walls with uneven finish and a pair of window openings to each level.

Rear elevation abutted by a gable-ended two-storey return to the centre and a single-storey range of rendered former outbuildings to the re-entrant east angle. UPVC windows to the return and a replacement tripartite timber glazed entrance screen.

East gable finished as per front elevation with two window openings to each level.

Setting:
Located on the west of Lodge Road within its own substantial site. Front garden enclosed by low rendered wall and hedging having an original wrought-iron pedestrian gate on a pair of Giant’s Causeway piers and a gravel drive to the south end. Partially cobbled rear yard enclosed by a range of single-storey rendered former outbuildings abutting the rear of the house. Grazed paddock to the rear enclosed by some mature trees and an early native hedgerow.

Roof Artificial slate
RWG UPVC
Walling Roughcast render
Windows Single-pane timber sash

Historical information

The current dwelling house is shown on the first edition OS map of 1830, a simple rectangular structure located close to ‘The Lodge’ a substantial residence nearby. On the second edition of 1849-50 the building is captioned ‘Lodge Cottage’ and has been extended substantially to the rear. The nearby mansion ‘The Lodge’ has also been extended.

‘The Lodge’, originally known as ‘Hatton Lodge’ was built by the Hatton family, Coleraine merchants, and is thought to date from at least the early 1700s (Mullin). However, the relationship of the ‘Lodge Cottage’ to ‘The Lodge’ is unclear, certainly by the mid nineteenth century the two buildings were in separate ownership. Griffith’s Valuation (1856-64) lists the occupier of the present building as James Loughlin who leases it from the Marquess of Waterford. The house and offices are valued at £8 and situated on a plot of over 17 acres. James and his wife died in 1866 and 1872 respectively leaving their property to their son and daughter (Wills of James and Saran Loughlin) and in 1887 the valuation was increased to £18 suggesting significant improvements to the building. In 1901 the occupier of the house was James’ daughter, Jane Laughlin, an unmarried woman of 69 who lived on the income from dividends. She employed a live-in servant, 20-year-old Rebecca Gibson. The twelve-room house was designated first class. In 1909 the house passed to John A Loughlin who let the property to William Jackson in the 1920s and 30s. Valuer’s notes of the 1930s record the accommodation as three receptions, a kitchen, scullery and pantry on the ground floor and on the first floor, four bedrooms, a bathroom and separate WC. The house was described as ‘old’ with a low roof and ceilings. The dwelling house continues in domestic use.

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/A/25 First General Revaluation 1933-57
9. Griffith’s Valuation online
10. PRONI Will of James Loughlin, died 16th March 1866
11. PRONI Will of Sarah Loughlin, died 7th May 1872

Secondary Sources

1. Mullin, Rev T H “Coleraine in Georgian Times” Belfast: Century Services Ltd, 1977
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

Criteria for listing: historic interest

X. Local Interest
R. Age
S. Authenticity

Evaluation

Detached symmetrical three-bay single-storey with attic rendered house, built c.1820. T-shaped on plan with a two-storey gabled return. Likely to be the oldest surviving if not the first house built on this road and possibly associated with Hatton’s Lodge (now demolished), Lodge Cottage retains an early plot boundary that formed a later standard for subsequent development. The scale, symmetry and retention of original fabric and detailing all contribute to a notable early nineteenth-century dwelling. The main house is enhanced by its outbuildings.

General comments

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