16 Urbal Road

The Department's description

Exterior description and setting

This is an end of terrace two-bay two-storey cottage, part of a group of four, built c1930. It appears to be currently vacant. It is rectangular in plan with a single-storey lean-to return to the rear. It has a pitched artificial slate roof and dashed rendered walls. The terrace fronts directly onto Urbal Road.

The front northwest elevation faces onto Urbal Road. There is a square-headed doorway left of centre and one square headed window to the right of the ground floor. There is one square-headed window above these on the first floor and an ocular window with concrete sill and hood. The main windows are timber sliding sash with concrete sills, six-over-one to the ground and three-over-one to the upper. The door is timber tongue and grooved with a rectangular glazed panel and accessed by a single concrete step.

The southwest gable elevation has no openings. The rear southeast elevation has two windows to the upper floor and two to the lower, as previous. The square-headed tongue and grooved door is located in the southwest elevation of the return.

The external walls are dashed render. The roof is artificial slate without fascia or bargeboards. Rainwater goods are a mixture of cast iron and plastic. The chimney is located on the party wall and is brick with profiled stepped capping and three clay pots. It is shared with number 14 (HB09/07/023).

Setting:
The terrace is located on the outskirts of Coagh, with a row of neighbouring houses opposite and to the southwest along the same building line. To the northeast is a row of commercial buildings. Further out from these are a 1930s school and a fine 19th century church on the edge of the village. The surrounding residential buildings are mainly two-storey and of similar scale to the terrace. Many of the houses have low-walled gardens to the front. The front door opens straight onto the footpath. The curtilage is indistinct; the space to the rear of the terrace is open and undivided.

Historical information

According to the valuation records, this short terrace of four dwellings ‘with yards’ was built in 1927-28, by a Mr. Jonathan R. Elliott. The original occupants are listed as, Thomas McIvor, David Mitchell, James McKnight and John Stirrup, with Mr. Mitchell occupying this particular house.

References- Primary sources
1 PRONI VAL/12B/37/4B Annual valuation revision book, Coagh ED, 1913-29
2 PRONI VAL/3B/7/4 First general revaluation of Northern Ireland, Coagh ED, 1935
3 PRONI VAL/3C/7/5 First general revaluation of Northern Ireland, Coagh ED, 1936-57
4 PRONI VAL/4B/6/6 Second general revaluation of Northern Ireland, Coagh ED, 1957-72

Criteria for listing: architectural interest

A. Style
B. Proportion
C. Ornamentation
J. Setting
K. Group value

Criteria for listing: historic interest

Z. Rarity
Y. Social, Cultural or Economic Importance

Evaluation

This is a rare example of a terraced house dating from the 1920s. It is unusually complete and shares a group value with the other three houses of the terrace. Again unusually, each of the houses of the terrace is in similarly original condition.
It is well proportioned and detailed.