19 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 left-hand extremity, common with adjoining house to left: 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; lugged surrounds to windows; looks like original lime mortar pointing to masonry, but some later cement repairs. Metal gutter with metal downpipe to left-hand extremity.
Elevation comprises a central doorway flanked each side by a window.
Windows are modern rectangular timber fixed lights with a top-hung vent, painted black and white; projecting painted stone cills.
Doorway contains a modern rectangular timber panelled door which incorporates a radially glazed fanlight, surmounted by a rectangular fanlight of reeded glass, in a moulded timber frame; modern metal handle; painted stone base blocks to frame; concrete doorstep. Black PVC vertical trunking for cables to right of doorway. Modern metal letterbox mounted on wall to left of doorway.

Rear elevation: single storey, slated as previous, with three original rectangular metal rooflights, but most of original rear wall covered by a later lean-to extension. Original walling to right is similar to entrance front with metal guttering.
Later extension has smooth cement rendered walls, painted white, with synthetic slates to roof; overhanging eaves, with plain timber fascia and barge board; PVC gutter.
Windows in extension are modern rectangular timber fixed lights with top-hung vents, set in plain reveals, with projecting concrete cills. Rear door is modern rectangular flush timber with a glazed panel.

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 concrete driveway along the gable of the adjacent house, No 20, to the east. At the rear of the house is a brick paved path and a gravelled area between it and a wooden outbuilding, of no special interest, close to the house; beyond the outbuilding is 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. Rear extension added by 1988; modern hinged windows replaced sash windows of entrance front in 1988.

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 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.