14 SHORE ST.

The Department's description

Exterior description and setting

Terraced four-bay two-storey rendered house, built early c.1800s, with integrated garage (former coach arch). Rectangular on plan facing southeast and lining the northwest side of Shore Street.

Pitched natural slate roof with terracotta ridge tiles and four cement rendered chimneystacks. Replacement steel and uPVC guttering on brackets to eaves course with steel downpipes. Painted rough-cast rendered walling. Square-headed window openings with painted masonry sills and original 8/8 sliding timber sash windows with exposed sash boxes and no horns.

Four-bay two-storey front elevation with off-centre square-headed door opening having a recessed replacement timber panelled and glazed door opening onto tiled step. To the left bay is a square-headed garage door opening with replacement timber panelled and glazed vehicular door. The window to the right at first floor level has a replacement 6/6 timber sliding sash window with angled horns.

Southwest side abutted by adjoining house No.12 Shore Street.

Rear elevation not seen.

Northeast side abutted by adjoining house No.16 Shore Street (HB05/02/029B).

Setting:
Forming part of a continuous terrace of similarly-scaled houses lining the northwest side of Shore Street.

Materials
Roof Natural slate
RWG Replacement steel or uPVC
Walling Painted rough-cast render
Windows Original timber sliding sash

Historical information

No. 14 Shore Street, a two-storey four-bay building (possessing a coach arch) located on the north west side of Shore Street, was constructed prior to 1859 (probably c. 1830). The majority of the buildings located along Shore Street were erected in the first half of the 19th century by the Turnly family. Cushendall’s proprietor Francis Turnly had travelled to China in 1796 where he raised a fortune of around £75,000. In 1801 Turnly used this money to purchase the estate of Newtownglens from the Richardson family at a cost of £24,000; Turnly subsequently renamed the settlement Cushendall. Brett states that Turnly was an eccentric character who ‘effected extraordinary improvements in buildings and roads on his property.’ Cushendall consisted of little more than a number of insignificant cabins, a mill and a bridge at the time of the purchase however, due to an increase in the number of tourists travelling through the area (on the way to the Giant’s Causeway) the village was developed into a coastal resort with the erection of hotels (such as the Glens of Antrim on Shore Street) and numerous commercial properties (Dallat, p. 45; Brett, Buildings of Co. Antrim, p. 288; Cushendall Conservation Area Guide).

No. 14 Shore Street is likely to date from the early-19th century as a row of buildings were depicted along the northern half of the street on the first edition Ordnance Survey map (1832). The buildings along this row may have been included in the contemporary Townland Valuations (1834), however it is difficult to identify specific buildings in that source due to the loss of the Townland Valuation Town Plan (c. 1834). No. 14 Shore Street was first recorded with certainty in Griffith’s Valuation (1859) which set the total rateable value of the building at £15 and 15 shillings. The valuer noted that the house was initially leased by the Turnly estate to a Mr. William Houghton, however in c. 1865 the property passed to James Robinson, Cushendall’s Physician and surgeon. The Robinson family continued to reside at No. 14 Shore Street until c. 1893. In that year the two-storey four-bay building was subdivided into two separate dwellings, valued at £6 and £9. The building remained sub-divided until c. 1913 when it was reconverted into a single premises for a Ms. Mary McIleavy and revalued at £10. No. 14 Shore Street passed to Patrick O’Mooney in c. 1918. The First General Revaluation of Property in Northern Ireland (1936-57) records that, by the 1930s, the building had once more been sub-divided into two dwellings, the total value of which stood at £17. The O’Mooney family continued to reside at one of the dwellings on the site until 1962 when both properties were acquired by a Mr. James Harold Workman, who purchased the site outright from the Turnly estate in 1967. No. 14 Shore Street was returned to its current layout as a single two-storey four-bay dwelling in 1962 and by the end of the Second General Revaluation (1956-72) the total rateable value of the building stood at £27.

In 1972 the UAHS publication for the Glens of Antrim described the north side of Shore Street as ‘a miscellany of two and three-storey houses, stuccoed, rendered and pebble dashed’ with nos 14-16 specifically described as ‘exceptionally well-painted white roughcast and blue, with all glazing complete’ (UAHS p. 33). The buildings along Shore Street were included in the Cushendall Conservation Area in 1975, only the second conservation area in the province to have been designated at that time, ‘testimony itself to the special qualities of the village.’ In that year the village was also chosen as one of Northern Ireland’s four pilot schemes for conservation during the European Architectural Heritage Year. No. 14 Shore Street was listed in 1976.

NIEA HB Records note the building underwent extensive renovation c. 1992, including reslating and new rainwater goods. In 1999 the original windows were replaced with the current sliding sash window frames (NIEA HB Records; Cushendall Conservation Area Guide).

References

Primary Sources
1. PRONI OS/6/1/20/1 – First Edition Ordnance Survey Map (1832)
2. PRONI OS/6/1/20/2 – Second Edition Ordnance Survey Map (1857)
3. PRONI OS/6/1/20/3 – Third Edition Ordnance Survey Map (1903)
4. PRONI OS/6/1/20/4 – Fourth Edition Ordnance Survey Map (1921)
5. PRONI OS/8/84/1 – Ordnance Survey Town Plan (1903)
6. PRONI VAL/1/B/148 – Townland Valuations (1834)
7. PRONI VAL/12/B/1/40B – Griffith’s Valuation (1859)
8. PRONI VAL/12/B/2/7A-F – Annual Revisions (1864-1923)
9. PRONI VAL/12/B/2/12A– Annual Revisions (1923-29)
10. PRONI VAL/3/C/1/14 – First General Revaluation of Property in Northern Ireland (1936-57)
11. PRONI VAL/4/B/1/10 – Second General Revaluation of Property in Northern Ireland (1956-72)
12. Ulster Town Directories (1880-1918)
13. Census of Ireland (1901; 1911)
14. First Survey Record – HB05/02/029
15. NIEA HB Record – HB05/02/029A

Secondary Sources
1. Brett, C. E. B., ‘List of historic buildings, groups of buildings and areas of architectural importance in the Glens of Antrim’ Belfast: Ulster Architectural Heritage Society, 1972.
2. Brett, C. E. B., ‘Buildings of Co. Antrim’ Belfast: Ulster Architectural Heritage Society, 1996.
3. Dallat, C., ‘The road to the Glens’ Belfast: The Friar’s Bush Press, 1989.
4. ‘Cushendall Village Conservation Area’ Belfast: Department of the Environment, 1975.
5. ‘Cushendall Conservation Area’ Belfast: Department of the Environment, 1993.

Criteria for listing: architectural interest

A. Style
B. Proportion
C. Ornamentation
D. Plan Form
I. Quality and survival of Interior
J. Setting
K. Group value

Criteria for listing: historic interest

R. Age
S. Authenticity
T. Historic Importance
X. Local Interest

Evaluation

Terraced four-bay two-storey rendered house, constructed prior to 1859, located on the northwest side of Shore Street, close to the village centre of Cushendall and adjacent to No.16 Shore Street (HB05/02/029B). It is one of a row of buildings which was erected by the Turnly family and throughtout its history has been subdivided into two dwellings and back to a single dwelling twice. No. 14 retains its simple proportions and external historic fabric and detailing such as multipane timber sliding sash windows. It is an integral component of the terrace, having group value with No.16 and is of local interest in the historic village centre.