15 - 16 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 15, to the left; the doorway located in No 16, to the right, 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 to left-hand extremity; common with adjoining house to the left: of red brick with projecting blue-black brick cornice of three courses, surmounted by a blocking course; two pots. The other chimney, to the right-hand gable, is similar but it has been rebuilt in new 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; surrounds lugged except for those to doorway to right. Lime mortar pointing to masonry. Metal gutter with metal downpipes to each extremity.
Windows are rectangular timber sliding sash, 1 over 1, with horns, with lattice glazing, all painted white, with exposed sash boxes also painted white; projecting painted stone cills.
Doorway of No 15, to left, contains a rectangular sheeted timber door, surmounted by a plain rectangular fanlight, in a plain timber frame; modern metal letterbox and handle; stone block bases to frame; concrete doorstep. Black PVC vertical trunking for cables to right of doorway.

East elevation is a blank gable of basalt rubble most of which is obscured by rough lime mortar. Chimney breast of brickwork flush with wall, to upper portion of wall. 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.
Front block is slated as previous to front elevation, with three modern rooflights.
Wall is rendered with a wet dash of crushed stones, swept over a smooth cement rendered plinth; projecting brick eaves course. Raised smooth cement rendered surrounds to opening. Metal gutter with new metal downpipe. PVC soil pipe. One large window to right, modern rectangular timber casements, with projecting concrete cill; large doorway to left, double doors, modern rectangular timber glazed, surmounted by a decorative terracotta plaque re-used.
Rear return is of similar walling with openings of similar character but synthetic slates to roof; rendered chimney on gable; 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 runs along the gable of No 16, between it and the gable of the adjacent block to the east, and leads along the side of a garden to a modern garage standing well to the rear of the house. Immediately to the rear of the house is a paved patio.

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 15 and 16 combined in one dwelling c 1986.

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, 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.