2-4 Waterfall Road,

The Department's description

Exterior description and setting

A two-storey gabled building in a terrace, with rendered walls and slated roof. Main entrance faces north.

Entrance front: roof of Bangor blue slates in regular courses; modern rooflights; eaves line rakes to one side where there is a canted corner to the building; two chimneys, one on each gable, rendered, with plain block cornices. Wall is smooth cement rendered, with quoining to extremities, and a projecting frieze below the eaves; PVC gutter with cast iron downpipe. Windows are rectangular timber sliding sash, vertically hung, 1 over 1, with horns, set in moulded stucco surrounds with a key-block. Two doorways, each containing a rectangular timber glazed and panelled door, set in similar surrounds to windows.

West gable above adjoining house, is smooth rendered; contains a small rectangular blind recessed panel to the attic, set in wooden surround.

East gable, above adjoining house, is rendered with a dashed finish; contains a rectangular timber window.

Rear elevation: two-storey with roof of synthetic slates in regular courses; modern rooflight; two chimneys, one on each gable, smooth rendered; PVC rainwater goods. Rear wall is rendered with a wet dash; two windows, one to each floor, modern rectangular timber fixed lights with top-hung vent; concrete cills. Rear return gabled: roof, walls, and rainwater goods similar to rear of main block; timber barge boards; rectangular doorway in side of return and two windows in gable of return, one to each floor, large modern timber similar character to rear of main block.

SETTING: The building stands within the built-up area of the village, in the centre of a terrace of three houses, facing along a street lined with terrace houses, with a small pavement directly outside the main doorway. To the rear is a small concrete yard shared with 10-12 Bridge Street which owns an open shelter, brick gabled, with corrugated iron roof, attached to the end of the rear return; basalt rubble boundary wall, partly rendered, to rear yard.

Historical information

Precise date of building not known but it appears on the OS map of 1857; a building is shown on part of the site on the OS map of 1832, but the present façade probably dates from the mid-19th century.

References – Primary Sources
1. OS Map 1832, Co Antrim 25.
2. OS Map 1857, Co Antrim 25.
Secondary Sources
1. UAHS, Glens of Antrim (Belfast, 1971), pp 20 and 21.

Criteria for listing: architectural interest

Not listed

Criteria for listing: historic interest

Not listed

Evaluation

This is a building of early to mid-19th century date of quirky shape to the front, but it has lost a number of original features and is of little special architectural or historic interest.