3 Maud Cottages, Cushendun, Co.Antrim

Three Maud Cottages, Cushendun

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

The house has a rectangular plan-form with slate-hung upper storeys and a white rendered lower storey featuring recessed arcading and a central projecting bow. The principal north-east elevation overlooks an open green with views towards the bay and North Sea beyond. Access is via a gravel driveway from Bay Road, approached between a pair of square white-washed stone pillars with iron gates.

The upper storeys are clad in slate with square-headed timber sliding sash windows. The lower section has a 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. The fenestration incorporates small-pane Georgian-style glazing with a cottage style aesthetic. The central projecting bow has three semicircular arched bays with casement windows (with a central blind bay) on the ground floor and two square-headed bays to the slated upper storey.

The pitched slate roof features terracotta ridge tiles and three rendered painted tall chimney stacks with clay pots. Half-round cast-iron guttering discharges to circular section cast-iron downpipes.

A semicircular-headed painted panelled timber door with decorative metal furniture provides the principal entrance. The north-west and south-east sides are adjoined to neighbouring properties (Nos 2 and 4). 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, featuring a pair of square-headed window bays to first-floor level with timber shutters, and two further square-headed timber sliding sash windows to the right.

No. 3 underwent general renovations in 2011, including the reslating of its roof and restoration of its windows.

The cottage is situated within the Conservation Area of Cushendun village, in close proximity to the River Dun and within a designated Area of Outstanding Natural Beauty.