20 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 right-hand gable: new 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 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 to windows are lugged; looks like original lime mortar pointing to masonry, but some later cement repairs. Part of elevation covered with creeper. Cast iron gutter but no downpipe.
Elevation comprises a central doorway flanked each side by a window.
Windows are modern rectangular timber fixed lights with a top-hung vent, painted white; projecting painted stone cills.
Doorway contains a modern rectangular timber 4-panel door, raised and fielded, surmounted by a rectangular fanlight of obscured glass, in a moulded timber frame; modern metal letterbox; painted stone block bases to frame; painted concrete doorstep. Black PVC vertical trunking for cables to right of doorway, next to window.

East elevation is a blank gable rendered with a wet dash of crushed stones, swept over a smooth cement rendered plinth. Overhanging eaves with painted panelled soffits; moulded timber barge boards.

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 left is similar to entrance front with metal gutter and downpipe to left-hand side.
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 and downpipe.
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 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 concrete driveway along gable leads to a hard standing with a brick paved path along the rear of the house. Immediately to the north are basalt rubble and rendered outbuildings of no special interest, and beyond that 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
D. Plan Form
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.