11 & 12 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 12, to the right; the doorway located in former cottage No 11, 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.
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. Metal gutter with metal downpipe to left-hand side set in cast iron pipe to base.
Windows are rectangular timber sliding sash, 1 over 1, with horns, painted white, with exposed sash boxes also painted white; projecting tinted concrete cills.
Doorway to former No 11, to left, contains a rectangular sheeted timber door, surmounted by a plain rectangular fanlight, in a moulded timber frame; rendered block base blocks to frame. Black PVC vertical trunking for cables to right of doorway.
Doorway to No 12, to right, is similar but has a metal letterbox.

East elevation is a blank gable over basalt rubble most of which is obscured by rough lime mortar. Projecting rendered plinth to base. Chimney breast flush with wall, has been rebuilt in basalt rubble. Overhanging eaves with painted panelled soffits; timber barge boards.

Rear elevation consists of the main front block of two former cottages treated as one unit with a long new return to the right-hand side, all single storey with attics.
Front block has a slated roof similar to entrance front, with three modern rooflights; part of roof is swept down to form an open porch with tongued and grooved sheeting to the soffit and the gable, supported on an angled timber strut. Wall is similar to entrance front, with new segmental arched red brick block surrounds to doorway and windows. Windows are rectangular timber fixed lights with top-hung vents; projecting concrete cills. Door is new rectangular sheeted timber with glazed panel.
Rear return is of basalt rubble with natural slated roof and similar detailing to windows.

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 No 12, between it and the gable of the adjacent block to the east, and leads to a large tarmac area bounded to the north by a detached basalt rubble garage currently being built. Beyond garage is a rear garden.

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 11 and 12 combined in one dwelling in 1983; rear extension added c 1992.

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
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.