8 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. 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. 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. 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 raised-and-fielded four panel timber door with modern cast-iron knocker at left in a stop-end chamfered reveal and accessed via a modern terracotta tiled step, having original timber transom light over with margin panes and multi-paned top-lights. The east elevation is abutted by adjoining building (HB03/10/063C). The south (rear) elevation is abutted by the full-height return having large uPVC window to second floor (see surveyor’s comments). The west elevation is abutted by adjoining building (HB03/10/063E). 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 with a smooth rendered wall having modern metal up-and-over garage door at left. Lawned garden to front with bitmac pathway to entrance door, enclosed by timber fencing and mature hedging. 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