Historic Building Details

HB Ref No:
HB03/17/003 D

Address :
8 Lodge Road Coleraine Co. Londonderry BT52 1NB

Townland:
Coleraine

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Survey 2:
B2

Date of Listing:
22/06/1977 00:00:00

Date of De-listing:

Current Use:
House - Terrace

Former Use
House - Terrace

Conservation Area:
No

Industrial Archaeology:
No

Vernacular:
No

Thatched:
No

Monument:
No

Derelict:
No

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OS Map No:
13-13NW

IG Ref:
C8517 3237

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Owner Category

Exterior Description And Setting

A two-bay three-storey-with-attic end-terraced townhouse; built 1879 and located to the east side of Lodge Road in Coleraine. Square on plan with two-storey gabled return and original half-timber porch to front. Pitched natural slate roof with blue/black angled ridge tiles and rendered chimneystack. Cast-iron ogee rainwater goods on bracketted eaves. Walling is painted smooth render on a chamfered plinth with moulded string course between ground and first floor. Windows are 1/1 timber sash with horns in stop-end chamfered reveals with projecting painted sills. Tripartite timber-sheeted gabled dormer to attic, having round-headed window openings (1/1 to centre) and decorative bargeboards with trefoil detailing and finial. The principal elevation faces southwest and is three openings wide at each floor. Half-panelled timber door to ground floor left in a chamfered reveal flanked by pilasters; abutted by half-timber porch (shared with neighbouring number 6). Porch has a corbelled cornice surmounted by decorative cast-iron balustrade, is lit to southwest and opens at right cheek with a replacement half-panelled timber door having sidelights and transom. Door is accessed by a single concrete step. The northwest gable elevation is abutted by adjoining building (HB03/17/003C). The northeast (rear) elevation was not viewed. The southeast elevation is abutted by adjoining building (HB03/17/003E). Setting: Situated to the east side of Lodge Road in Coleraine town centre. Set back from the street with a small yard to front laid in modern paving and enclosed by rendered wall with painted coping, square piers having pointed caps and supporting replacement cast-iron latch-gate. Tarmacadamed alley to northwest leads to a rear yard, and gives access to car-park at east. Yard to the rear with coal house and outbuilding still present. Outbuilding to rear forms part of a terrace and comprises two-storey painted roughcast render building with slated roof, having rendered and red-brick chimneystacks. Timber-sheeted loading door and 2/2 timber sash window at first floor, over modern up-and-over garage door and timber-sheeted entrance door. Roof: Natural slate Walling: Painted smooth render Windows: 1/1 timber sash with horns RWG: Cast-iron

Architects

Not Known

Historical Information

The current dwelling dates from 1879 and is part of a terrace of sixteen houses built between c1859 and c1888 for Coleraine's rising middle classes. The terrace is first shown on the large scale map of Coleraine dating from 1882 and the group of four houses (numbers 2-8), of which the current dwelling is part, was inserted into valuation records in 1879. Numbers 6 and 8 Lodge Road were named ‘Cecilia Place’ and this is recorded on the large-scale maps, in valuation records. The glazed porch spanning numbers 6 and 8 is shown on the 1882 map and appears to be an original feature. The terrace was considered to be on the best, because sunniest, side of Lodge Road and was occupied largely by middle-class merchants and professionals who kept at least one servant. Lodge Road was laid out between 1833 and 1845, being first shown on O’Hagan’s map of Coleraine dating from 1845 and is named after ‘The Lodge’, a dwelling house at the southern end (now replaced by a hotel). The closing decades of the nineteenth century saw a building boom of terraces and villas in Coleraine of which local people were extremely proud. The boom is said to have begun in the late 1850s when Thomas Boyd built Waterford Terrace at numbers 26 to 32 (Mullin). The house, offices, yard and small garden was initially valued at £24.10s occupied by John Murphy (1881) and leased from Robert Ferris, who was most likely the developer. In 1894, the valuation was dropped to £22, probably as the result of an appeal. At the time of the 1911 census the occupier was John Murphy, a retired Inland Revenue supervisor, born in London, who lived with his Donegal wife and two adult daughters (1911 census). The next occupier was James R McKee in 1914 followed by Charles J H Frederick in 1931, Stephen Martin (1940), Robert Smith (1945) and the Anderson family in the 1950s. Valuer’s notes of the 1930s list the accommodation as, on the ground floor, a reception, kitchen, scullery and pantry, on the first floor, a reception and two bedrooms, on the second floor, two bedrooms and a bathroom and on the third floor two attic bedrooms. The valuer notes that the gates, kitchen range and bath were ‘old-fashioned’. The house had water laid on and gas lighting at this time and a plan is given showing the house, single-storey and double-height returns, coal house and closet in the yard to the rear and an outbuilding at the bottom of the yard that is still present. The house was listed in 1977 and repairs and renovations took place in the 1980s (HB file). References: Primary Sources 1. PRONI OS/6/5/7/1 First Edition OS Map 1830 2. PRONI OS/6/5/7/2 Second Edition OS map 1849-50 3. PRONI OS/6/5/7/3 Third Edition OS Map 1904 4. PRONI OS/6/5/7/4 Fourth Edition OS Map 1923 5. PRONI OS/6/5/7/5 Fifth Edition OS Map 1949 6. PRONI VAL/12A/5/11-13 Valuer’s Notes 1900-1912 7. PRONI VAL/12/B/30/9A-N Annual Revisions (1864-1929) 8. PRONI VAL/3/C/6/4 First General Revaluation 1933-57 9. PRONI VAL/3/D/6/2/H/23-24 First General Revaluation 1933-57 10. HB file – 03/17/003A-P 11. 1901/1911 census online Secondary Sources 1. Girvan, W D “Historic Buildings, Groups of Buildings, Areas of Architectural Importance in Coleraine and Portstewart” Ulster Architectural Heritage Society, 1971-2 2. Mullin, Rev T H “Coleraine in Modern Times” Belfast: Century Services Ltd, 1979

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

R. Age S. Authenticity X. Local Interest

Evaluation

A two-bay three-storey-with-attic end-terraced townhouse; built 1879 and located to the east side of Lodge Road in Coleraine. Architectural detailing is largely intact externally and internally, including an original porch, and the building forms part of an important and prominent terrace, situated in the heart of Coleraine(HB03/17/003A-P). Coleraine is largely characterised by its development within the Victorian era, and the terrace is one of the best preserved examples of mid-nineteenth century terraced architecture, displaying proportions and details typical of the period. Probably the best preserved house in the street and still with its orignal function it makes an important contribution to the group.

General Comments

Additional listing criteria apply - R - Age, S- Authenticity.

Date of Survey

09 November 2012