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

62 Dunedin Terrace is a two-bay, two-storey-with-attic mid-terrace townhouse built around 1880 to designs by local architects J & W Kirkpatrick. It is located on the north side of Lodge Road in Coleraine town centre. The building is square on plan with a two-storey canted bay and two-storey gabled return to the rear.

The roof is mansard with natural slate and blue/black angled ridge tiles, along with fish-scale tiles; the canted bay has a slate roof with leaded hips and ridges. A replacement red-brick chimneystack rises from the main structure. Cast-iron ogee rainwater goods sit on a projecting eaves course.

The walling consists of painted smooth render over a contrasting plinth with a platband between floors and a moulded eaves cornice. The windows are uPVC replacements in segmental-headed surrounds with projecting painted sills. On the ground floor of the canted bay, windows are square-headed with a continuous sill course. Two gabled dormers to the attic contain round-headed uPVC windows in timber frames with carved brackets under the eaves.

The principal elevation faces southwest. The two-storey canted bay is positioned at the left, with windows to each facet. The entrance door is at ground floor right with a window above at first floor. The original bolection-moulded four-panelled timber door retains its bronze door furniture and sits within a segmental-headed doorcase with panelled sidelights and a plain transom light. The northwest elevation is abutted by the adjoining building. A two-storey gabled return stands at the left of the southeast (rear) elevation, which is abutted by the adjacent building to the southeast. The northeast elevation was not viewed during the survey.

The house sits on the north side of Lodge Road in a residential area on the approach to the town centre. It is set back from the road with a lawned front garden bounded by mature hedges and trees. A tarmacadamed pathway leads to the entrance door. A painted roughcast rendered wall with saddleback coping fronts the entrance, with a replacement cast-iron latchgate. To the rear is an enclosed yard with a two-storey painted roughcast render slated outbuilding forming part of a terrace. This outbuilding has a modern skylight to the roof and modern window and door openings at ground floor on its northeast elevation. A concrete communal yard to the northeast contains a gravelled parking area.

Despite some alterations and refurbishments, the building retains much of its original detailing and remains a well-preserved example of a typical late-Victorian terraced townhouse. It forms part of Dunedin Terrace, which comprises seven houses and is one of the best preserved representative examples of late-nineteenth-century terraced architecture in Coleraine. The terrace is the only known work by the Kirkpatrick brothers, local architects of Blindgate Street, Coleraine.

Lodge Road was laid out between 1833 and 1845, first appearing on O'Hagan's map of Coleraine dated 1845. It is named after 'The Lodge', a dwelling house at the southern end, now replaced by a hotel. 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. This 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 Henry Brown in 1882, who leased the house, office, yard and small garden from Oliver H Liken. The house was valued at £22 initially but reduced to £20 in 1887, probably as a result of an appeal. Subsequent occupiers included Mrs Daniel Boyd (1893), Maria Rutherford (1896), Mr Adams (1901), Oliver H Liken (1902), Alexander Hood (1907) and Joseph Leitch (1912). Joseph Leitch was a retired farmer living with his widowed mother, according to the 1911 census. Dunedin Terrace was revalued in 1912, with the value dropping to £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. Joseph Leitch occupied the house until 1944, when it was taken over by Daniel McNeill.

Valuer's notes from the 1930s record 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 said to have cost £1400 each to build, had gas lighting, and the rear outbuilding was cobbled inside. The house was listed in 1977 and is currently undergoing renovations.

No 62 has group value with the other listed buildings in the terrace and is of significant local interest.