64 Dunedin Terrace, Lodge Road, Coleraine, Co. Londonderry, BT52 1NDH

64 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, an important and prominent terrace representing the best-preserved examples of late-nineteenth-century terraced buildings in Coleraine. The building has group value with the other listed structures in the terrace and is of significant local interest.

The house is square on plan with a two-storey canted bay and two-storey return to the rear. The mansard roof is clad in natural slate with blue and black angled ridge tiles and fish-scale tiles; the canted bay roof features natural slate with leaded hips and ridges. A partially rendered red-brick chimneystack rises from the structure. Cast-iron ogee rainwater goods sit on a projecting eaves course.

The walls are painted smooth render applied over 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. 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. A two-storey canted bay occupies the left side with windows to each facet. The entrance door is positioned to the ground floor right, with a window above at first-floor level. The original door is a bolection-moulded four-panelled timber door with bronze furniture, set in a segmental-headed doorcase with panelled sidelights featuring etched glazing and a plain transom light. The door is accessed via a single stone step.

The northwest elevation is abutted by an adjoining building. The northeast (rear) elevation was not viewed during survey. A two-storey gabled return projects to the left. The southeast elevation is abutted by an adjoining building.

To the northeast of the main house is a two-storey smooth-rendered slated outbuilding forming part of a terrace. Its northeast elevation features a large square-headed entrance with timber lintel and timber-sheeted doors, with a six-paned metal window at first floor above. A concrete communal yard to the northeast includes a gravelled parking area.

The setting occupies the north side of Lodge Road in a residential area on the approach to the town centre. The house is set back from the road behind a lawned garden with mature spruce trees and a bitumac path to the front entrance. The garden is bounded by mature hedges and a rendered wall with a cast-iron latch-gate. The rear yard is enclosed by rendered walls.

Lodge Road was laid out between 1833 and 1845 and was first shown on O'Hagan's map of Coleraine from 1845. The road is named after "The Lodge", a dwelling house at the southern end (now replaced by a hotel). Dunedin Terrace is 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. The closing decades of the nineteenth century saw a building boom of terraces and villas in Coleraine of which local people were extremely proud. The boom is said to have begun in the late 1850s when Thomas Boyd built Waterford Terrace at the Coleraine end of Lodge Road.

The terrace entered valuation records in 1880, was given the name "Dunedin" in 1881, and first appears on the third edition Ordnance Survey map of 1904. The first recorded occupier was Thomas H Taylor in 1882, who leased the house, office, yard and small garden from John Fisher. The house was initially valued at £22, reduced to £20 in 1887 following an appeal. Miss Rankin occupied the house from 1887, followed by Sarah Nevin in 1896. S and W Cunningham were the next occupiers in 1907, followed by James B Galloway in 1909. The 1911 census records James Galloway as a shipping agent from Scotland living with his wife, mother, two children and a domestic servant of local birth.

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 still present. Subsequent occupiers included John A Moore (1912) and Annie Clarke (1928), with the Clarke family remaining resident until at least the 1950s.

Valuer's notes from the 1930s describe the accommodation as 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 reported to have cost £1400 each to build, featured gas lighting, and the rear outbuilding was cobbled inside. The house was listed in 1977.