9 Marine Parade

The Department's description

Exterior description and setting

Attached mid-terrace two-bay two-storey house, built 1870, second from left in a terrace of four houses located to the west of Marine Parade. Rectangular-on-plan with lower two-storey rear return to north-west (shared with HB22/06/023C).

Roofs are pitched and natural slated with deep overhanging eaves; replacement concrete chimneys with clay pots to south party wall; replacement brick chimney and timber bargeboards to return. Walls are smooth rendered over projecting plinth. Windows are square-headed replacement timber framed top-hung casements; painted masonry sills.

Principal elevation faces east containing two windows at first floor; at ground floor, pair of segmental-headed windows in chamfered surround (shared sills) at left, round-arched-headed chamfered entrance opening; square-headed replacement uPVC glazed door with transom light, flanked at right by colonette with foliated capital shared with entrance to HB22/06/023C.

South elevation abutted by HB22/06/023A.

West elevation is roughcast and contains single window at each floor right; abutted at left by return containing small window at each floor; three openings to each floor at south.

North elevation abutted by HB22/06/023C.

Set within garden to east bounded to road and adjoining gardens by rendered walling, accessed through modern pedestrian steel gate supported by square pillars. Enclosed yard to rear accessed through segmental-headed vertically sheeted timber door from shared rear alley. Further garden beyond alley to west.

Roof Natural slate
Walling Smooth render
Windows Square-headed timber-framed top-hung casements; painted masonry sills
RWG Cast-iron half-round gutters with round downpipes

Historical information

This house belongs to a block of four built in 1870, under the direction of Timothy Hevey (the architect or his father), as the first stage of the development of the new seaside town of Whitehead (Irish Architectural Archive).

The road from Carrickfergus to Larne was completed in 1854 and the Belfast and Northern Counties Railway extended to Larne ten years later, with a halt at Whitehead to serve the local community. These developments provided the impetus for Whitehead’s development in the late-nineteenth century. According to the Department of the Environment: ‘The arrival of the line and the realisation by 'entrepreneurs' of the area's scenic attraction and leisure potential heralded the development boom to come.’ (p.5).

The buildings are first shown on the third edition OS map of 1902.

The Valuation Revision map for Whitehead town of 1907-13, numbers the row of houses differently than at present, i.e. No’s 6, 7, 8 and 9 instead of the current numbering system No’s 8, 9, 10 and11.

Valuation Revisions from the 1920s record No.8 as a ‘house and yard’, occupied by Susan McAlery (1928) and leased from J. M McAllery, the house being valued at £20.

Valuation Revisions from the 1920s record No.9 as a ‘house and yard’, occupied by Jennie M.Dagwell (1928) and leased from S.A Looge, the house being valued at £20.

Valuation Revisions from the 1920s record No.10 as a ‘house and yard’, occupied by Francis Gordon (1928) and leased from the representatives of J. Raphael, the house being valued at £17.

Valuation revisions from the 1920s record No.11 as a ‘house and yard, occupied by Willie Lavery in 1928 (revised to Robert Hutchinson in 1931), and leased from J.C Hayes, the house being valued at £20.

References:

Primary Sources

1. PRONI OS/6/1/47/2 - Second Edition OS Map (1857)
2. PRONI OS/6/1/47/3 - Third Edition OS Map (1902)
3. PRONI VAL/12/E/52/1 - Valuation Revision Map (1907-1913)
4. PRONI VAL/12/B/7/19 A - Valuation Revisions (1926)
5. PRONI VAL/12/F/1/16/1/1 - 25” map of Whitehead (1931-5)

Secondary Sources

1. Department of the Environment Northern Ireland. ‘Whitehead Conservation Area.’ Department of the Environment Northern Ireland 2. Irish Architectural Archive. ‘Dictionary of Irish Architects’ [Internet source] Available from:
(Accessed 20/05/09)

Criteria for listing: architectural interest

Not listed

Criteria for listing: historic interest

Not listed

Evaluation

An attached mid-terrace two-bay two-storey house, built 1870, located to west of Marine Parade. The group is well-conceived and retains its original unity. This one is plainer than the end of terrace house and whilst it contributes positively to the Conservation Area as part of the group it is of insufficient interest to merit listing singly or for group interest.