Washhouse, Adjacent to Nos 3-6 Coastguard Cottages, Causeway View Lane, Portrush, Co Antrim, BT56 8DA

Single-storey wash house and attached outbuildings to the rear of a former)Coastguard station of 1896. The station consists of a detached two-storey station building / commander officer's house, and six two-storey dwellings arranged in a terrace, as well as the wash house, outbuildings, and a later boathouse / associated store. Designed in a simple, loosely Georgian-style, the entire grouping may originally have been finished in brick but is now almost entirely rendered. The buildings are set in urban surroundings, to the north of Portrush town centre, on a slight rise between Main Street (in the south) and Causeway View Lane (in the north). Gardens belonging to each of the dwellings are detached and set to the to the west side. The wash house and its attendant buildings are set to the immediate east of the terrace, in the yards of nos.3-6 Coastguard Cottages. The roof is pitched; this is set at right angles to the roof over the rooms, thus presenting a gable to the west front façade. The roof is finished with natural slate and the ridge tiles are grey fireclay. To the rear of the ridge there is a brick chimneystack with a corbelled cap and clay pots. Eaves are without overhangs; there is a fush timber eaves fascia. The walls of the wash house are faced with red clay brick and the eaves are set approximately 600mm higher than the adjoining outbuildings. The attached outbuildings have rendered walls with flat-arched doorways with timber sheeted doors, slated mono-pitched roofs. The building houses a communal washhouse and a series of small rooms. Nos.3-6 are each allocated two of the rooms, with one of these two originally serving as a fuel store and the other an outside WC. All are now used as stores / junk rooms. There are six no. rooms to the north side and two to the south side. The west wall of the washhouse advances forward revealing side walls to the north and south sides. On the north side wall there is a flat-headed door opening with a timber sheeted door; the brick lintel is flat-arched. To the west wall there are two flat-arched window openings with painted timber 6/6 sash frames. The lintels are as the doorway and the sills are painted cut stone.