Historic Building Details

HB Ref No:
HB22/06/024 A

Address :
19 Balmoral Avenue Whitehead Carrickfergus Co Antrim BT38 9QA

Townland:
Whitehead

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Survey 2:
B2

Date of Listing:
09/12/2009 00:00:00

Date of De-listing:

Current Use:
House

Former Use
House

Conservation Area:
Yes

Industrial Archaeology:
No

Vernacular:
No

Thatched:
No

Monument:
No

Derelict:
No

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OS Map No:
99-3

IG Ref:
J4736 9187

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Owner Category

Private

Exterior Description And Setting

Attached two-bay one-and-a-half storey Arts and Crafts style house, built c.1900, located to the west side of Balmoral Avenue. Rectangular-on-plan. Roof is pitched and Rosemary clay tiled with clay ridge tiles; red brick corbelled chimneys with original clay pots; timber bargeboards. Walls are roughcast over smooth rendered plinth to sill height; platbands to window sill height and mid-levels. Windows are square-headed timber framed casements (divided 1/2) in smooth rendered surrounds; painted masonry sills, unless otherwise stated. Principal elevation faces east; left bay consists of entrance containing square-headed five-panelled timber door with glazed sidelights and transom light; accessed by four concrete steps; flanked at left by two windows. Bay abutted by timber-framed veranda with glazed roof supported on turned timber columns over painted masonry balustrade, now enclosed; gabled bay at right is shared with HB22/06/024B; at ground floor, two segmental-headed windows surmounted by hood-moulding, canted corner at left beneath jettying contains single window; at first floor, walling has applied decorative half-timbering; single window at right. South gable consists of projecting double chimney-breast at centre with round-arched-headed recess containing timber framed 1/1 sliding sash window at each floor; at left, single timber framed 1/1 sliding sash window at each floor. Abutted at left by roughcast walling containing square-headed vertically sheeted timber door to enclosed yard. West elevation consists of shared gable at left containing timber framed 1/1 sliding sash window at each floor and further metal framed window at first floor right; at right, replacement timber framed glazed door is flanked at left by timber framed 2/2 sliding sash window and at right by metal framed casement window. North elevation abutted by HB22/06/024B. Set within private gardens to south and east; enclosed yard to west containing small rendered outbuilding. Bounded to all sides by hedging, access through smooth rendered square pillars supporting modern steel gate. Roof: Rosemary clay tiles Walling: Roughcast; applied decorative half-timbering at first floor Windows: Square-headed timber-framed casements divided ½ in smooth rendered surrounds; painted masonry sills RWG: Cast-iron ogee gutters with round downpipes

Architects

Historical Information

The building is first shown on the third edition OS map of 1902. A Valuation Revision Map of 1907-1913 numbers the property as 25 and 21. An entry in the books from the 1920s records No. 25 as a ‘house and yard’, occupied by George. E. McKittrick in 1928 (revised a year later to Elizabeth Shaw) and leased from Andrew Ferguson. The building is valued at £17. No. 21 is a ‘house, yard and garden’, occupied by W. [C]lements (revised to Edith Hunter in 1925), and leased from W. E Hunter. The building is valued at £21. 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)

Criteria for Listing

Architectural Interest

A. Style B. Proportion C. Ornamentation D. Plan Form I. Quality and survival of Interior J. Setting K. Group value

Historic Interest

X. Local Interest

Evaluation

An attached two-bay one-and-a-half storey Arts and Crafts style house, built c.1905, located to the west side of Balmoral Avenue. It is one of a pair and it retains original plan layout and many architectural features both externally and internally. Arts and Crafts influence is articulated by half-timber panelling on the façade, and ornate timberwork to the veranda structure. The house, along with the adjoining property (HB22/06/024B) contributes positively to the conservation area of Whitehead. These houses are two of the best examples of semi-detached houses from the Edwardian era when Whitehead developed rapidly under encouragement from the railway company.

General Comments

This record is a new listing.

Date of Survey

08 January 2009