46 Seaview

The Department's description

Exterior description and setting

Three bay/ two and a half storey (+ basement) house on N side of road facing the sea. It is the central one of a group of three similar buildings -see also HB16/12/006D and HB16/12/006F.

Hipped natural slate roof with a rendered and painted chimneystack to each end. Roof is partially concealed behind a blocking course with dentilled cornice and plain frieze. Front pitch has three dormers - all with pitched natural slate roof.

Walls are smooth rendered and painted with stucco quoins to ground and first floor. Stringcourse below eaves level and a moulded cill course to ground floor windows. Balcony to first floor is supported on five decorative cast-iron brackets to either side of central porch (see later). Balcony has decorative scrolled ironwork matching adjoining houses.

Ground floor central bay is accessed by a flight of granite steps enclosed to either side by a rendered and painted wall with granite copings. Wall supports modern loop-headed railings. Steps fall away to left and right bays to basement (see later).

Middle bay of ground floor has a single-storey porch. Walls are as façade with boxed quoins and moulded stringcourse. Its left and right cheeks have a modern timber door with plainly glazed fanlight over. Above stringcourse is a decorative lugged and eared panel. Its front face has a large semi-elliptical window opening with moulded stucco head resting on stringcourse and with granite cill. Openings contain a pair of reproduction semicircular-headed 1/1 fixed windows with plain spandrel over.

To left and right of porch, each bay has a tripartite window with moulded eared architrave and granite cill. All windows are exposed box 1/1 sliding sashes.

First floor has a window to each bay, all with eared and lugged architraves. All windows are diminished in height 2/2 sliding sashes. Dormers each have a dentilled pedimented gable and dentilled eaves. Each dormer has a pair of 1/1 casements

Basement is rendered and painted with a window to each exposed bay, flanking steps. Both windows are 2/2 exposed box sliding sashes (vertically divided) with granite cill. The middle bay of the basement is entered by a modern timber door on each cheek of the external steps.

Left gable is abutted by adjoining house (HB16/12/006D) and the exposed section is blank.

Rear elevation is all modern, it has deck access to doors of modern apartments (of no interest).

Right gable is abutted by adjoining house (HB16/12/006F) and the exposed section is blank.

Setting.

The frontage is paved with a rendered and painted dwarf wall carrying decorative loop-headed metal railings with Grecian palmette finials.

Historical information

Not on the 1834 OS 6” map. First cited in the large-scale c.1860 map as Albert Place, along with its flanking neighbours (HB16/12/006D, /006F). Described in the 1861 Valuation book as measuring 14yds x 12.5yds by two and one-third storeys high + basement). The first survey slide shows this building with dentilled chimneystacks. The tripartite window to ground floor left is a 2/2 sliding sash with 1/1 sidelights. This building suffered extensive bomb damagebefore it was first listed. It was then subject to extensive refurbishment and subdivided into flats in the early 1990s.

Primary sources
1. OS town map, c.1860 (PRONI – VAL 12E/127/1/6).
2. Second valuation book, 1861 (PRONI – VAL 2B/3/65B, p.72).
3. HMMB slide 1st December 1969.
4. Information from Planning Service, Craigavon Divisional Planning Office.

Criteria for listing: architectural interest

Not listed

Criteria for listing: historic interest

Not listed

Evaluation

After years of dereliction, this building, with its neighbour, was subject to extensive refurbishment and subdivided into flats. The roof was replaced, the upper part of the façade rebuilt and the interior was completely renovated. Only the façade of this building remains as a feature of interest. Major bulding work has altered the character of the property and there is insufficient historic fabric remaining to justify its retention as a listed building.