10 Marine Parade

The Department's description

Exterior description and setting

Terraced two-bay two-storey rendered house, built 1870, rectangular on plan facing east with a three-bay two-storey return (shared with No.9). Built as part of a terrace of four houses to the west of Marine Parade on an elevated site overlooking Belfast Lough and having a symmetrical composition.

Pitched natural slate roof with roll-moulded black clay ridge tiles, a large redbrick chimneystack (shared with No.11 and rebuilt c.1990). Further pair of redbrick chimneystacks to the return. Plastic rainwater goods to overhanging eaves with exposed rafter feet.

Painted ruled-and-lined rendered walling with a deep projecting rendered plinth course.

Square-headed window openings to the first floor, segmental-headed to the ground floor, all having replacement timber casement windows and painted concrete sills (paired to the ground floor). The pair of ground floor windows have had the sills dropped and retain a stop-chamfer detail which is repeated to the round-headed door opening.

Round-headed door opening with a painted engaged colonette to the south, having a foliate capital and forming part of the door opening to the adjoining house (HB22.06.023B). Double-leaf timber doors with diagonally-sheeted panels having a stop-chamfer detail and rectangular overlight set behind the arch. Door opens onto a step with encaustic tiles and a stone step. The tiling continues to the internal entrance lobby with a replacement timber glazed door and overlight. Large square-headed door opening to the return with double-leaf timber glazed doors. A further vertically-sheeted timber plank door to the return with a glazed panel.

A raised front garden is enclosed by a rendered wall with an enclosed small rear yard accessed via a small rear lane, also giving access to a further garden plot to the rear.

Roof Covering Natural slate
Walling Painted ruled-and-lined render
Windows Replacement timber casement
Rainwater goods Plastic

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 has inappropraite windows; 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.