9 Dhu Varren Park, Portrush, Co. Antrim, BT56 8EN

A two-bay, two-storey with attic dormer, end-terrace rendered townhouse built c.1908 and located to the south side of Dhu Varren Park in Portrush. Square on plan with projecting ground floor to front and full-height L-shaped gabled return to rear. Pitched natural slate roof with terracotta angled ridge tiles and yellow-brick chimneystack to west gable; timber bargeboards and terracotta finials to gables. Cast-iron ogee rainwater goods on projecting eaves; uPVC to rear. Walling is painted smooth render; scotia moulded string-course supporting rainwater goods between first floor and attic; roughcast render to west gable and rear return. Windows are original 1/1 timber sash with margin panes, multi-paned top-lights and horns, in stop-end chamfered reveals with projecting painted sills; bullnose continuous sills to grouped windows; uPVC to rear and west gable. The principal elevation faces north; two wall-head dormer windows to attic over three windows at first floor (paired at right). Monopitched red tiled roof to ground floor; group of three windows at right (outer windows narrower); bolection-moulded four panel timber door with modern cast-iron door furniture at left in a stop-end chamfered reveal and accessed via a single concrete step; original timber transom light over with margin panes and multi-paned top-lights. The east elevation is abutted by adjoining building (HB03/10/063D). The south (rear) elevation is abutted at right by the large L-shaped gabled return, lit by a variety of uPVC windows to west and south gable. To left of return is a modern wall-head dormer containing a large uPVC window; uPVC window also to first and ground floor. The west gable has a uPVC window insertion to left at attic and a uPVC window to ground floor centre. Setting: Situated on a rectangular plot in a residential area of Portrush, directly opposite the Coleraine-Portrush train-line and Dhu Varren halt. Yard to rear enclosed by a painted smooth rendered wall with concrete coping. Lawned garden to front with concrete pathway to entrance door, enclosed by painted render walls. Modern timber latchgate to entrance from Dhu Varren Park at north. Roof: Natural slate Walling: Painted smooth render Windows: 1/1 timber sash with horns, margin panes and multi-paned top-lights RWG: Cast-iron