7 & 8 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 terrace of four similar single cottages. Main entrance faces south, located in former cottage No 8, to the right; the doorway located in former cottage No 7, to the left 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. Two chimneys, one at left-hand extremity; common with adjoining house to left: of red brick with projecting blue-black brick cornice of three courses, surmounted by a blocking course of red brick; two pots. Chimney on right-hand gable is similar except rebuilt with rustic brick in place of original red brick.
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; lime mortar pointing to masonry. Cast iron gutter but no downpipe.
Windows are rectangular timber sliding sash, 1 over 1, with horns, painted white, with exposed sash boxes also painted white; projecting painted stone cills painted white.
Doorway to former No 7, to left, contains a rectangular sheeted timber door, surmounted by a rectangular fanlight of obscured glass, in a moulded timber frame; painted stone base blocks to frame; concrete doorstep. Black PVC vertical trunking for cables to right of doorway set in a cast iron pipe at base.
Doorway to right (No 8) is similar except it has modern metal letterbox, knob and knocker.

East elevation is a blank gable over basalt rubble with roughly squared quoins to extremities. Repointing to masonry. Old brickwork chimney breast flush with wall, to upper portion of gable, much obscured by smeared pointing. Roof verges virtually flush, with slightly projecting smooth cement rendered strips from eaves to base of chimney; timber kneeler to left-hand eaves (one on right obscured by creeper).

Rear elevation: the two former houses have had their rear elevations treated as one unit. Roof slated, as previous to entrance front; contains four modern rooflights.
Wall rendered with a wet dash of crushed stones, with slightly projecting smooth cement rendered plinth; render and plinth both stop short of left-hand extremity to reveal part of quoins. Projecting break eaves course; parts of wall covered with creeper. Cast iron gutter with cast iron downpipe to left-hand side. PVC soil pipe and waste pipes.
One doorway and three windows. Doorway contains a rectangular timber sheeted half-door surmounted by a rectangular fanlight of obscured glass, set in a modern moulded timber frame; smooth cement rendered reveals; concrete doorstep. Windows are rectangular timber sliding sash, 1 over 1 with horns, set in exposed sash boxes; projecting concrete cills.

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 8, between it and the gable of the adjacent block to the east, and leads to a large paved area at rear of house, with a gravelled and landscaped 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. Nos 7 and 8 combined in one dwelling c 1989.

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
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 road front.