1 & 2 Edenduff Terrace

The Department's description

Exterior description and setting

A pair of single storey terrace houses or cottages of basalt rubble now combined into one dwelling; forming part of what was originally a block of four similar single cottages. Main entrance faces south, located in former cottage No 1; doorway located in the former cottage No 2 no longer functions as a door. Each cottage unit is three bays wide consisting of a central doorway flanked each side by a window. The overall entrance elevation of the property is now 6 bays wide.

Entrance elevation: roof of Bangor blue slates in regular courses; dark toned ridge tiles. One chimney, on left-hand gable: red brick, rebuilt, with projecting blue-black brick cornice of three courses, surmounted by a blocking course of red brick; two pots. Similar chimney at right-hand extremity, common with the adjoining house to the right, but of original red brick.
Walls of basalt rubble with roughly squared quoins to left-hand extremity; but covered with creeper; projecting brick eaves course; red brick flat arch to head and block dressings to openings but partly obscured by later cement reveals and raised surrounds; recessed pointing to masonry. Cast iron gutter with cast iron downpipe to right-hand extremity.
Windows are rectangular timber sliding sash, 1 over 1, with horns, painted white, with exposed sash boxes painted black; projecting sandstone cills.
Doorway to No 1, to left, contains a rectangular sheeted timber door, surmounted by a rectangular fanlight of obscured glass, in a moulded timber frame; modern metal letterbox; antique-style metal door knocker; sandstone base blocks to frame; concrete doorstep. Doorway to No 2, to right, is similar, but doorstep closed off by a painted baseboard.

West elevation is a blank gable rendered with a wet dash of crushed stones. Overhanging eaves with painted panelled soffits; moulded timber barge boards.

Rear elevation: modernised with the two original cottage elevations now treated as one elevation which contains one doorway and three modern timber windows. Roof slated as previous to entrance front, with five modern rooflights; PVC rainwater goods.

SETTING: The building stands at one end of a terrace of what was originally four similar single cottages, the block itself forming part of a row of five similar blocks. The overall terrace stands in a rural area, facing the main road but set back from it slightly, with a tarmac access road immediately in front, separated from the main road by kerbstones. Facing the terrace row is the heavily wooded demesne of Shane's Castle, bounded by a basalt rubble wall, while the rest of the area around consists of agricultural land.
A concrete driveway along gable of house No 1, bounded on the left by a basalt rubble wall, leads to a rear garden, grassed, with large new detached garage standing to the west.

Historical information

Built by the O'Neill family as part of a row of terrace houses for workers on the Shane's Castle estate; precise date of terrace not known but the row appears for the first time on the OS map of 1902. It may be tentatively dated to the 1860s. It would appear that all houses in the terrace blocks originally had lattice paned windows to the front.

References – Primary Sources
1. OS Map 1902, Co Antrim 49.

Secondary Sources
1. UAHS, West Antrim (Belfast, 1970), p 21 (item no 60).
2. R. Pierce and A. Coey, Taken for Granted (NIHBC, 1984), p 66.

Criteria for listing: architectural interest

A. Style
B. Proportion
C. Ornamentation
H-. Alterations detracting from building
J. Setting
K. Group value

Criteria for listing: historic interest

X. Local Interest

Evaluation

This is a house formed from two distinctly proportioned terrace cottages of mid-Victorian date, now combined in one dwelling. It has lost some of its original features, most notably the lattice glazing to front windows, but despite this, together with the rest of the houses in the terrace row, it still forms a group of definite character which enjoys a pleasant rural setting to the front.