4 The Whins,

The Department's description

Exterior description and setting

A single storey flat roofed house in a modern style on an asymmetrical plan with a garage underneath one end. Roof covering of rubber with white stone chippings; walls of grey concrete brick; white painted sheeted fascia between parapet upstands, except for cedar panelled fascia to boxing over front steps. Some windows are full height in cedar frames with cedar lower panels; others are small metal framed side-hung casements set in wooden subframe. Projecting beam ends form a feature on two elevations. Open tread external staircase in timber and steel to entrance front, added 1973. The property sits on an elevated site at the head of a sloping lawn. Curved screen wall to front steps, with shared driveway and turning area laid out in conjunction with No. 3, built in a similar style.

Historical information

Designed for himself by James Loggie of Gerald R. Smith and Partners, architects of Belfast, c.1965; extended by same architect, again for himself, in 1973.

References - Primary

1. Copy of architect’s plan for extension, 1973, in possession opf owners in 1997.
2. Information from owners.

Criteria for listing: architectural interest

Not listed

Criteria for listing: historic interest

Not listed

Evaluation

An example of a post-war house designed in a thoroughly modern style, of some panache, but so extended that it cannot be considered a complete period-piece.