66 Dunedin Terrace, Lodge Road, Coleraine, Co. Londonderry, BT52 1ND

66 Dunedin Terrace is a two-bay, two-storey-with-attic mid-terrace townhouse built around 1880 to designs by J & W Kirkpatrick, located on the north side of Lodge Road in Coleraine town centre. It is a well-preserved example of late-Victorian terraced architecture and forms part of Dunedin Terrace, one of the best-preserved representative examples of late-nineteenth-century terraced housing in Coleraine.

The building is square on plan with a two-storey canted bay and two-storey return to the rear. The roof is mansard, covered with natural slate and topped with blue and black angled ridge tiles and fish-scale tiles; the canted bay has a slate roof with leaded hips and ridges, and a rendered chimneystack is present. Cast-iron ogee rainwater goods sit on a projecting eaves course.

The external walls are painted smooth render on a contrasting plinth with a platband between floors and a moulded eaves cornice. Windows are segmental-headed 1/1 timber sash without horns, with projecting painted sills. The ground floor of the canted bay has square-headed windows with a continuous sill course. Two gabled dormers to the attic contain 1/1 round-headed windows in timber frames with carved timber brackets under the eaves.

The principal elevation faces southwest, with the two-storey canted bay at the left containing windows to each facet. The entrance door sits on the ground floor to the right, with a window above at first floor level. The door is an original bolection-moulded four-panelled timber door with bronze door furniture, set in a segmental-headed doorcase with panelled sidelights and a plain transom light, accessed via a single stone step. The northwest elevation is abutted by the adjoining building. A two-storey gabled return is located to the left. The southeast elevation is also abutted by the adjoining building.

The house is set back from Lodge Road with a lawned garden to the front, bounded by mature hedges and a modern timber fence, with a concrete pathway to the entrance door. A smooth rendered wall with saddleback coping to the entrance incorporates a wrought-iron latch-gate. The rear yard is enclosed to the northeast by a two-storey outbuilding of painted smooth render with a slated roof, which forms part of the terrace. This outbuilding has a 2/2 timber sash window to the right at first floor and a 2/2 sash window insertion with a timber-sheeted door to the right, both beneath a timber lintel. A concrete communal yard to the northeast contains a gravelled parking area.

Dunedin Terrace comprises seven houses, the only known work by local architects and brothers J & W Kirkpatrick of Blindgate Street, Coleraine. The terrace was considered to occupy the best (and 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 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 in terraces and villas in Coleraine, said to have begun in the late 1850s when Thomas Boyd built Waterford Terrace.

The terrace entered into valuation records in 1880 and was given the name 'Dunedin' in 1881. It first appears on the third edition Ordnance Survey map of 1904. The first recorded occupier was Mrs Rankin in 1881, followed by William Rankin in 1882. The house, office, yard and small garden were leased from John Fisher. The property was valued at £22 initially but reduced to £20 in 1887, probably following an appeal. Frederick W Crawford occupied the house from 1893, but it was vacant at the time of the 1901 census. C W J McDonald was the next resident in 1903, followed by Samuel A Wray in 1911. The 1911 census records Wray as a solicitor living with his wife, young daughter, and a sixteen-year-old domestic servant. Dunedin Terrace was revalued in 1912 at £18.10s. Valuer's notes from this period show a plan of the house with a two-storey rear extension and outbuildings at the rear of the yard, all of which remain present.

Subsequent occupiers included William Moody (1919) and Selina Magee and Mary Jamison (1931), who remained resident until at least the 1950s. Valuer's notes from the 1930s record the accommodation as comprising a reception room, kitchen, scullery and pantry on the ground floor; two bedrooms, a bathroom, WC and reception on the first floor; and three bedrooms on the second floor. The houses were said to have cost £1400 each to build and had gas lighting; the rear outbuilding was cobbled inside. The house was listed in 1977.