2 Maud Cottages, Cushendun, Co.Antrim

Two-storey white painted Arts and Crafts-style house, part of a terrace of four Interwar dwellings. Built in 1926 to designs by Clough Williams-Ellis, a London-based architect, the terrace replaced a former coastguard station.

The building has a rectangular plan-form with slate-hung upper storeys. The lower storey features recessed arcading and a central projecting bow. Windows are Georgian-glazed with outer bays having timber shutters. The pitched slate roof has terracotta ridge tiles and three rendered painted tall chimney stacks with clay pots.

The principal north-east elevation faces an open green overlooking the bay and North Sea beyond. It is accessed via a gravel driveway from Bay Road through a pair of square whitewashed stone pillars with iron gates, set behind painted railings.

The slate-clad upper storeys have square-headed timber sliding sash windows. The lower section has white rendered painted finish with arcaded bays and a single square-headed timber sliding sash window to the end bay, all set on a plinth painted in contrasting colour. Small-pane Georgian-style timber sliding sash windows incorporate a cottage style expressed throughout the terrace. Half-round cast-iron guttering discharges to circular section cast-iron downpipes.

The main entrance is via a semicircular-headed painted panelled timber door with decorative metal furniture. Ground floor consists of a series of semicircular arched arcaded bays with casement windows to the left of the door and blind bays to the right. The central projecting bow has three semicircular arched bays on ground floor (with a central blind bay) and two square-headed bays to the slated upper storey.

No. 2 is adjoined to Nos. 1 and 3, situated to the north side of the terrace row, perpendicular to Bay Road. The north-west and south-east sides are adjoined to neighbouring properties.

The south-west elevation overlooks a rear yard with a small lean-to stone outbuilding bounded by stone walling and high hedging. The rear elevation, where visible, consists of a white painted rendered projecting central bay with a slated pitched roof, a pair of square-headed window bays to first floor level with timber shutters to left and right, and two square-headed timber sliding sash windows to the left of the projecting bay, all overlooking a large open green facing Main Street.

General renovations were undertaken in 2011, including reslating of the roof and restoration of windows.

The building is situated within the village of Cushendun Conservation Area, within close proximity to the River Dun and within a designated Area of Outstanding Natural Beauty. Walling is white rendered to the lower section and slate-hung to the upper storeys. The roof is natural slate with cast-iron painted rainwater goods. Windows are timber sliding sash.