6 Edenduff Terrace

The Department's description

Exterior description and setting

A single storey, three-bay terrace house or cottage of rubble basalt now one of a block of what was originally four similar cottages. Main entrance faces south.

Entrance elevation: roof of Bangor blue slates in regular courses; dark toned ridge tiles. One chimney, at right-hand extremity, common with the adjoining property to the right; red brick with projecting blue-black brick cornice of three courses, surmounted by a blocking course of red brick; two pots.
Walls of basalt rubble with 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 cement pointing to masonry. Cast iron gutter with cast iron downpipe to right-hand extremity.
Elevation comprises a central doorway flanked each side by a window.
Windows are rectangular timber sliding sash, 1 over 1, with horns, painted white, with exposed sash boxes also painted white; projecting painted stone cills.
Doorway contains a rectangular sheeted timber door, surmounted by a rectangular fanlight of obscured glass, in a timber frame; metal letterbox and knocker; painted stone base blocks to frame. Black PVC vertical trunking for cables to left of doorway.

Rear elevation: single storey; roof slated as previous; three modern rectangular rooflights.
Walling similar to entrance front except bottom portion roughly rendered with lime mortar; old lime mortar pointing to masonry generally. Cast iron gutter and cast iron downpipe, but PVC addition to base of downpipe.
Rear elevation contains a doorway with a small window to the right: brick dressings to openings but with smooth cement rendered raised surrounds.
Window is a rectangular timber fixed light with a top-hung vent; projecting painted sandstone cill.
Doorway contains a modern sheeted timber half-door set in a moulded frame; modern metal handles; painted stone base blocks to frame each side of door. PVC soilpipe.

SETTING: The building stands within 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.
The rear is reached by a gravelled driveway along the gable of the adjacent house, No 5, to the west.
At the rear of the house is a small gravelled area with outbuildings of no special interest and a garden 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
D. Plan Form
H+. Alterations enhancing the building
K. Group value

Criteria for listing: historic interest

X. Local Interest

Evaluation

This is a distinctly proportioned mid-Victorian terrace cottage which 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.