69 Shore Road

The Department's description

Exterior description and setting

A detached two-storey multi-bay Arts and Crafts style house, built 1902, located to the east side of the Shore Road, Greenisland. Rectangular-on-plan with various projections; lower and narrower one-and-a-half storey L-shaped side-return; two-storey garage block to north linked by single storey link block .

Roof is pitched natural slate (shallow pitch), overhanging eaves with timber soffits on timber modillion brackets; timber bargeboards. Tall roughcast chimneystacks, corbelled caps. Ogee cast-iron rainwater goods, box hoppers dated 1902 to NW elevation. Walling is painted roughcast, fine rendered stringcourse between floors, contrasting smooth rendered plinth. Windows are timber framed leaded lattice casements divided by mullions; first floor windows have segmental-headed panes within square-headed frames, corbelled heads and cills on corbel brackets; those to return are square-headed wall-head dormers. Large stairwell window to NW has timber mullions and transom with round-headed central section.

Shore facing elevation (SE) main block is symmetrical and three-bays wide; outer bays are gabled. Opening to each bay at each floor including canted central bay with French doors and continuous glazing contained within recessed segmental-headed arched opening; ground floor windows are bowed. Return has plain casement to ground floor, two windows to half-storey. Linking block abutted by lean-to uPVC conservatory (modern). Garage block has single window and large picture window to ground floor, plain glazed timber casement to first floor.

SW side elevation has canted projection to centre; single windows to each cheek’ otherwise blank.

Road-facing (NW) elevation main block is three bays wide. Right bay has a window to each floor; central bay projects and contains stairwell window; left (entrance) bay is slightly taller and projects slightly further again; window to first floor, entrance is contained within a deep square-headed recess; banded piers to porch entrance, window to left cheek; double-leaf mahogany panelled doors with sidelights and four-part transom: original bronze door furniture (‘letters’ inscribed on letter box); upper panels glazed with bull’s eye green glass, leaded margins; stone flagged threshold. Variety of windows to return and linking block. Panelled and glazed garage doors and first floor window to garage block.

NE elevation of return has projecting chimneybreast at left; blank. NE elevation of garage block could not be inspected (inaccessible).

Set parallel with the Shore Road overlooking Belfast Lough. Bounded to road by high hedge; tarmac parking area to NW; large grassed lawn to sea facing side.

Roof: Pitched natural slate
Walling: Painted roughcast
Windows:Timber framed lattice casements
RWG: Ogee cast-iron; box-hopper heads, some dated

Historical information

The building is first shown on the third edition OS map of 1902.

Valuation Revisions of 1894 record the property as a ‘house, offices and land’occupied by Norman Victor Cooke and leased from W. Roome. The building is valued at £40.10s.

In the late revisions from the 1930’s the occupier is listed as Norman Victorbrooke and the lessor as W.J. Roome.

References:

Primary Sources

1. PRONI OS/6/1/52/1- First Edition OS Map (1832)
2. PRONI OS/6/1/52/2 - Second Edition OS Map (1857)
3. PRONI OS/6/1/52/3 - Third Edition OS Map (1902)
4. PRONI VAL/12/F/1/12/2 - Valuation Revisions (1931-35)
5. PRONI VAL/12/B/7/6A-D - Valuation Revisions(1894-1929)

Criteria for listing: architectural interest

Not listed

Criteria for listing: historic interest

Not listed

Evaluation

A substantial multi-bay two-storey Arts and Crafts style detached house dated 1902, located on the Shore Front at Greenisland. The house has been well-maintained and retains most external features, including dated box hoppers. The lattice windows are particularly fine, with mullions, decorative heads and sills. It is an unspoiled and attractive example of a type of dwelling representative of early twentieth-century development along the eastern shore of Belfast Lough. However there are better examples of the period.