13 -14 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 cottages. Main entrance faces south, located in former cottage No 14, to the right; the doorway located in former cottage No 13, 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 on left-hand gable, of rustic brick, a rebuilding in place of original red brick, with projecting blue-black brick cornice of three courses, surmounted by a blocking course of red brick; two pots. The other chimney at the right-hand extremity, common with the adjoining house to the right, is similar, but in original red brick.
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 partly obscured by later cement reveals and raised surrounds; surrounds lugged except for those to doorway to left. Lime mortar pointing to masonry. Metal gutter with metal downpipe to right-hand extremity.
Windows are rectangular timber sliding sash, 1 over 1, with horns, with lattice glazing bars, all painted white, with exposed sash boxes also painted white; projecting painted stone cills.
Doorway of No 13, to left, contains a rectangular sheeted timber door, surmounted by a plain rectangular fanlight, in a moulded timber frame; painted stone block bases 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; projecting rendered plinth to base. 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 left-hand side, all single storey with attics.
Front block has slated roof similar to entrance front, with three large modern rooflights. Wall is rendered with a wet dash of crushed stones, swept over a smooth cement rendered plinth; timber eaves boards, with PVC gutter; PVC soil pipe. Two windows, modern rectangular fixed lights with top-hung vents, set in smooth rendered surrounds; projecting concrete cills.
Return is of similar walling and roof with similar openings; modern steel railinged balcony to first floor in gable.

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 along gable of house No 13, between it and the gable of the adjacent block to the west, leads to a large gravelled area, to the north of which is a modern gabled garage and a 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 13 and 14 combined in one dwelling in 1982.

References – Primary Sources
1. OS Map 1902, Co Antrim 49.

Secondary Sources
1. UAHS, West Antrim (Belfast, 1970), p 21 (item no 60).
2. R. Pierce and A. Coey, Taken for Granted (NIHBC, 1984), p 66.

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, but notably retains the lattice glazing to front windows, and together with the rest of the houses in the terrace row, forms a group of definite character which enjoys a pleasant rural setting to the road front.