138 Upper Road

The Department's description

Exterior description and setting

Semi-detached three-bay two-storey house with attic, built c.1910, located to the north of Upper Road, Carrickfergus. Rectangular-on-plan with two-and-a-half-storey projecting gabled left bay having additional two-storey canted bay to centre; two-storey pitched roof return to rear.

Roof is hipped (pitched to north gables) natural slate with crested terracotta ridge tiles; ogee-profile cast-iron rainwater goods; moulded eaves on dentilled course; rendered stepped gable chimneystack with terracotta pots, second to party wall, third to rear. Single roof light to north slope. Walls are roughcast rendered with moulded stringcourse and smooth rendered plinth; windows are square-headed (segmental-headed at first floor,) 1/1 sliding sashes with moulded architraves (north return windows have no moulded architraves) and painted masonry cills unless otherwise stated.

Principal elevation faces south and contains two-and-a-half-storey gable to left with two-storey canted bay having flat-roof. Central single-storey projecting entrance porch to internal angle with natural slate hipped roof; paired windows to right. First floor contains central segmental-headed door opening onto flat-roof above hipped entrance porch; paired windows at right. Canted bay contains single window to each cheek at ground and first floor (with continuous cill) and is surmounted by paired square-headed windows to gable. Dormer to right with pitched natural slate roof; plain timber bargeboards and terracotta finial. Entrance porch comprises six-panelled timber door within glazed entrance porch (panelled to bottom) accessed by three precast concrete steps, crested timber eaves and decorative cast-iron cresting around leaded flat roof.

Left gable contains single window to each floor.

Rear elevation is abutted by two-storey return with pitched natural slate roof, abutted to left by single-storey lean-to extension; exposed section is blank.

Right gable is abutted by No.140 (HB22/03/004B).

Return north gable is blank; west elevation contains two windows at ground floor, three windows at first floor. East elevation contains door to left, two windows to right; single casement window to left at first floor. Abutted to right corner by boundary wall enclosing small rear yard, accessed by timber sheeted door.

The house is set parallel to the road and located on an elevated site to the north of Upper Road, accessed by lane to left and bound to road by mature trees and garden; garden extends to the rear of the property with single-storey pitched garage to north.

Roof covering: Natural slate with crested terracotta ridge tiles
Walling: Roughcast rendered with moulded stringcourse and smooth rendered plinth
Windows: 1/1 sliding sashes with painted masonry cills
Rainwater goods: Ogee-profile cast-iron

Historical information

The building is first shown on the sixth edition OS map of 1920-21.

In the Valuation Revisions in 1904 it is described as a ‘house, yard and garden’occupied by Lancelot Montgomery and leased from Susan Loughlin. The building is valued at £27. In 1909 the occupier changes to Charles Montgomery.

References:

Primary Sources

1. PRONI OS/6/1/52/2-Second Edition OS Map (1857)
2. PRONI OS/6/1/52/3-Third Edition OS Map (1902)
3. PRONI OS/6/1/52/6-Sixth Edition OS Map (1920-21)
4. PRONI VAL/2/B/7/6A-D – Valuation Revisions (1894-1929)

Criteria for listing: architectural interest

Not listed

Criteria for listing: historic interest

Not listed

Evaluation

Well proportioned early twentieth-century semi-detached three-bay two-storey house with attic, located on an elevated site to the north of Upper Road, Carrickfergus. The house is plainly detailed but interest is provided in the symmetrical proportions with adjoining property (HB22/03/004B). With original plan-form and many original characteristics of the façade intact, including segmental-headed timber sliding-sashes with moulded architraves and timber glazed entrance porch with cast-iron cresting; this house together with No.140 (HB22/03/004B) form a group of local interest.