8 Lenamore Avenue, Jordonstown, Co.Antrim, BT37 0PF

8 Lenamore Avenue, Jordanstown

This semi-detached two-bay two-storey Arts & Crafts style house was built around 1914 by Kilpatrick Builders, according to the original deeds held by the owners. It stands on the north side of Lenamore Avenue in a residential area of Jordanstown, set within mature gardens and hedging bounded by a square rendered pillars entrance from the avenue.

The house is rectangular on plan with a two-storey porch projecting to the east and a single-storey gabled return to the north-west. The roofs are pitched and tiled with timber bargeboards; roughcast chimneys have projections to their bases and retain original clay pots. The walls are painted roughcast with corbelled eaves.

The principal elevation faces south. The left bay contains a window at ground and first floor level, with a dormer to the attic shared with the adjoining house. The right bay projects and is gabled, featuring a distinctive bowed window with a flat rolled lead roof over a moulded cornice; a single window sits at first floor level, and a small louvered opening serves the attic. The west gable is abutted by the adjoining property.

The north elevation is abutted at right by the return, which contains a square-headed replacement uPVC glazed door. The ground floor has two windows; single and small windows are positioned at first floor level, with a skylight to the roof. The east elevation has a gabled porch at its centre, splayed at ground floor left. The porch contains the original timber panelled entrance door with glazed lights at the left, surmounted by a round-arched-headed hood-moulding that continues as a string course over a small window at the right; at first floor level is a tripartite window with a stepped sill; a dormer serves the attic. The exposed wall beyond has single windows at each floor.

The house retains some of its original architectural character through Arts & Crafts inspired details to the exterior, including the entrance door, internal fireplaces, and timberwork. The windows are now replacement uPVC casements with original stained glass to the toplights and concrete sills. It is a late example of the Arts & Crafts style and not of the best quality or design.

According to the Valuation Revision book for the period 1910 to 1920, the plot initially contained an office and land occupied by Thomas Houston, valued at £2 10s and later revised to £5. A house and garden with the same occupier was valued at £7, revised to £14. The final property listed under the site reference was a house, office and land occupied by Maud Atkinson with Isabella Houston as lessor, valued at £16 10s. The building first appears on the Fifth Edition Ordnance Survey map of 1920.