17 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 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: red brick with projecting blue-black brick cornice of three courses, surmounted by a blocking course of red brick; two pots.
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 and paintwork to lower portion of window heads; looks like original lime mortar pointing to masonry, but some later cement repairs. Cast iron gutter but no downpipe.
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 stone cill. Sash boxes are in poor condition, with evidence of later repairs to bases. Paintwork surrounds.
Doorway contains a rectangular timber panelled door which incorporates a radially glazed fanlight, surmounted by the original rectangular fanlight of obscured glass, set in a timber frame; modern metal letterbox; painted stone base blocks to frame; raised cement surrounds; concrete doorstep. Black PVC vertical trunking for cables to right of doorway.

West elevation is a blank gable of basalt rubble with roughly smeared cement pointing; flush red brick chimney breast to upper portion. Overhanging eaves with painted panelled soffits; moulded timber barge boards.

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; 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 rendered reveals to doorway and paintwork to heads and to reveals of window. Window is a rectangular timber side-hung casement set in a timber frame, with projecting painted stone cill. Doorway contains a rectangular timber 6-panel door, raised and fielded, set in broad timber framing, with projecting stone or rendered bases to frame; concrete doorstep.

SETTING: The building stands at one end of 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 the gable, between it and the gable of the adjacent block to the west, leads to a small gravelled area at the rear of the house. Immediately to the north is a timber garage or outbuilding of no special interest with a garden beyond it.

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.