18 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, to right-hand extremity, common with adjoining house to right: 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 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 to windows are lugged; looks like original lime mortar pointing to masonry in places, but some later cement repairs. Metal gutter with metal downpipe to right-hand extremity.
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 flush timber door, surmounted by a rectangular fanlight of obscured glass, in a moulded timber frame; modern metal letterbox and knocker; concrete doorstep. Black PVC vertical trunking for cables to left of doorway.

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; downpipe has cast iron lower portion with later metal pipe inserted above.
Rear elevation contains a doorway with a small window to the right: brick dressings to window and upper part of doorway but with cement rendered surrounds to reveals of doorway. Window is a rectangular timber side-hung casement; projecting painted sandstone cill. Doorway contains a modern rectangular flush timber door set in a broad original timber frame; modern metal handle; cement rendered base blocks to frame each side of door.

SETTING: The building stands within 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.
The rear is reached by a gravelled driveway along the gable of the adjacent house, No 17, to the west. At the rear of the house is a small gravelled area now overgrown with grass, bounded on the east by vertical timber fencing.
Immediately to the north is a timber outbuilding of no special interest with a garden beyond that.

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.