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

A two-bay, two-storey with dormer attic, mid-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 gabled return to rear. Pitched natural slate roof with terracotta angled ridge tiles and yellow-brick chimneystack; timber bargeboards and terracotta finials to gables (right finial missing). Cast-iron ogee rainwater goods on projecting eaves. Walling is painted smooth render; scotia moulded string-course supporting rainwater goods between first floor and attic; roughcast render to rear return. Windows are uPVC sash with margin panes and multi-paned top-lights in stop-end chamfered reveals with projecting painted sills; bullnose continuous sills to grouped windows. 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); replacement six-panelled timber door at left in a stop-end chamfered reveal accessed by three modern brick pavior steps, having original timber transom light over with margin panes and multi-paned top-lights. The east elevation is abutted by adjoining building. The south elevation is abutted by the gabled return (see surveyor’s comments). Mid-twentieth century timber window to second floor. The west elevation is abutted by adjoining building (HB03/10/063B). 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 tall roughcast rendered wall. Lawned garden to front with brick pavior pathway to entrance door, enclosed by modern rendered wall topped by metal railings and a replacement metal gate. Roof: Natural slate Walling: Painted smooth render Windows: Replacement uPVC RWG: Cast-iron