6 Lenamore Avenue

The Department's description

Exterior description and setting

Semi-detached two-bay two-storey (with attic) Arts & Crafts style house, built c. 1914, located to the north side of Lenamore Avenue. Rectangular-on-plan with two-bay two-storey extension to west, single-storey pitched return to north-east and sunroom to north-west.

Roofs pitched and tiled with timber bargeboards; roughcast chimneys with projection to base; original clay pots. Walls are painted roughcast with corbelled eaves. Square-headed replacement uPVC casement windows with original stained glass to toplights; concrete sills.

Principal elevation faces south and is abutted to left by extension. From left, bay one comprises bowed window at ground floor with flat rolled lead roof over moulded cornice, single window at first floor; bay two contains original timber panelled entrance door with glazed lights, surmounted by tiled monopitch canopy on timber brackets, single window at first floor, dormer to attic. Bay three projects and is gabled; bowed window (as before) at ground floor, single window at first floor, small louvered opening to attic. Bay four contains window at ground and first floor, dormer to attic shared with adjoining house (HB21/11/007B).

West gable is abutted by two-storey extension; projecting flue to centre, single window to right at ground floor. Abutted to left by replacement uPVC sunroom on roughcast plinth.

North elevation abutted at left by return containing square-headed replacement uPVC glazed door and at right (to extension) by uPVC sunroom. Exposed section of ground floor contains two windows; single window to left and small window to centre at first floor, skylight to roof. Extension contains single window to left at first floor.

East elevation abutted by 8 Lenamore Avenue (HB21/11/007B).

Setting

Site bounded to all sides by mature garden and hedging. Access from Lenamore Avenue at south.

Roof Artificial tiles
Walling Painted roughcast
Windows uPVC
RWG uPVC gutters

Historical information

The building is first shown on the fifth edition OS map of 1920.

The corresponding Valuation Revision book from the period 1910 to 1920 shows several properties under the plot reference number, the first is an ‘office and land’ occupied by Thomas Houston, which is valued initially at £2.10s then revised to £5. The next entry is a ‘house and garden’ with the same occupier, the building valuation is initially £7 then revised to £14. The final property under the site reference is a ‘house, office and land’, with the occupier listed as Maud Atkinson, and the lessor as ‘Isabella Houston’. This building is valued at £16.10.

According to the owners the property was built around 1914 by Kilpatrick Builders, and was known as ‘Dundela’.

References:

Primary Sources

1. PRONI OS/6/1/57/3 –Third Edition OS Map (1902)
2. PRONI OS/6/1/57/5 –Fifth Edition OS Map (1920)
3. PRONI VAL/12/D/1/57K -Valuation Revisions Map (1918-1935)
4. PRONI VAL/12/B/1/12 A-K – Valuation Revision Fieldbook (1910-1920)

Secondary Sources

1. First Survey
2. Owners Information, 1991

Criteria for listing: architectural interest

Not listed

Criteria for listing: historic interest

Not listed

Evaluation

This semi-detached two-bay two-storey Arts & Crafts style house, built c. 1914, located to north of Lenamore Avenue has been extended to the west in original style. The house retains some of its original architectural character through detailing to exterior, such as Arts & Crafts inspired entrance door to internal fireplaces and timberwork. The house is set in a residential area of Jordanstown. It is a late example of the type and not of the best quality or design.