3 & 4 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 3; the doorway located in former cottage No 4 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 right-hand gable: red brick with projecting blue-black brick cornice of three courses, surmounted by a blocking course of red brick; two pots. Similar chimney at left-hand extremity, common with the adjoining house to the left.
Walls of basalt rubble with roughly squared quoins to right-hand extremity; 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. Later repointing slightly smeared over parts of masonry. Cast iron gutter with cast iron downpipe to each extremity.
Windows are rectangular timber sliding sash, 1 over 1, with horns, painted white, with exposed sash boxes also painted white; projecting stone cills painted white.
Doorway in No 3, to left, contains a rectangular sheeted timber door, surmounted by a rectangular plain glazed fanlight, in an unmoulded timber frame; modern metal letterbox and knocker; painted stone base blocks to frame; concrete doorstep, painted.
Doorway to No 4, to right, is similar except no ironmongery and fanlight is blocked with a painted wooden panel. Black PVC vertical trunking for cables to left of doorway to former No 4.

East elevation is a blank gable rendered up to base of chimney with a wet dash of crushed stones; swept over a smooth cement rendered plinth. Small PVC grille to right-hand side of gable. Flush verges to roof.

Rear elevation: the two former houses have had their rear elevations treated as one unit. Roof slated, as previous to entrance front, with a broad central flat roofed dormer rising from just above the eaves. Dormer constructed of timber, with vertical boarding to front and cheeks; four rectangular timber windows comprising fixed lights and side-hung casements. PVC gutter and downpipe to dormer.
Wall rendered with a wet dash of crushed stones, swept over a smooth cement rendered plinth. Timber eaves board; PVC gutter and downpipes. PVC soilpipe. Three windows to rear wall: modern rectangular timber fixed lights with side-hung casements and top-hung vents, set in smooth rendered reveals; thin projecting concrete cills. Doorway contains a modern rectangular panelled door incorporating radial glazed fanlight, set in a plain timber frame with a recessed rendered panel above.

SETTING: The building stands at one end of a block of what was originally a terrace of 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 gravelled driveway runs along the gable of house No 4, between it and gable of the adjacent block to the east, and leads to a large concrete and gravelled area at rear of house, with a lawn beyond.

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).

Criteria for listing: architectural interest

A. Style
B. Proportion
C. Ornamentation
H-. Alterations detracting from building
I. Quality and survival of Interior
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.