9 Edenduff Terrace

The Department's description

Exterior description and setting

A single storey, three-bay terrace house or cottage of rubble basalt, 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, on left-hand gable: rustic brick (a rebuilding of original red brick) with projecting blue-black brick cornice of three courses, surmounted by a blocking course of red brick; one pot.
Walls of basalt rubble with roughly squared quoins to left-hand extremity; projecting brick eaves course; red brick flat arch to head and block dressings to openings but those of doorway partly obscured by later cement render; old lime mortar pointing to masonry, but some later cement repairs. Metal gutter with metal downpipe to left-hand extremity, set in cast iron pipe at base.
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 painted green; projecting painted stone cills.
Doorway contains a rectangular sheeted timber door, surmounted by a rectangular fanlight of obscured glass, in a broad moulded timber frame; modern metal letterbox and handle; painted stone base blocks to frame. Black PVC vertical trunking for cables to right of doorway.

West elevation is a blank gable of basalt rubble most of which is obscured by rough lime mortar; smooth rendered strips from eaves to base of chimney, with essentially flush verges to roof slates slightly overhanging; timber kneelers.

Rear elevation: single storey; roof slated as previous; three original rectangular metal rooflights.
Walling similar to entrance front except bottom portion roughly rendered with lime mortar and portion below window is in brickwork; old lime mortar pointing to masonry generally. Metal gutter and downpipe.
Rear elevation contains a doorway with a small window to the left: brick dressings to openings but with cement render to reveals of doorway.
Window is a rectangular timber fixed light in an old moulded timber frame; recessed cill with rotting timber cill superimposed on it.
Doorway contains a rectangular timber sheeted door set in a broad original moulded frame; modern metal handle; painted stone base blocks to frame each side of door.

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, between it and the gable of the adjacent block to the east, and leads to a small gravelled area at rear of house, with a garden beyond, bounded by hedges.

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
I. Quality and survival of Interior
J. Setting
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 road front.