Hawthorn Heights, 15 Leeke Road, Coleraine, Co. Antrim, BT56 8NH

Hawthorn Heights is a detached, symmetrical one-and-half-storey rendered house built around 1820 and substantially remodelled in 1929. It stands on an elevated site at the end of a long lane to the east of Leeke Road in the townland of Priestland West, near Coleraine.

The house is rectangular on plan, facing west, with a pitched natural slate roof topped with clay ridge tiles and profiled red brick chimneystacks to either gable end. Cast-iron rainwater goods serve the building. The walls are finished in flint-dashed cement render over a smooth rendered plinth course and rendered corners. Square-headed window openings have moulded architrave surrounds and masonry sills, though all are currently secured with sheets of corrugated iron. The symmetrical front elevation is three windows wide and features a central wall-head dormer above the main entrance, also boarded with corrugated iron sheets.

The 1930 remodelling added a rear porch with a gabled entrance and single-storey rubblestone ranges to both gable ends, set back from the front elevation. The north and south side elevations each include a single window opening to the attic within these ranges. The ranges have lime-rendered rubblestone walls with red brick surrounds to door and window openings. These are fitted with sheeted timber and steel doors. The south range retains a natural slate roof, while the north range is covered with corrugated iron.

The rear elevation is finished in painted rough-cast render. A further single-storey rubblestone outbuilding stands to the east with a slate roof.

The front garden is overgrown and enclosed by a hedgerow with an iron pedestrian gate set on rendered posts and a screen wall.

Originally built as a modest mid-nineteenth-century vernacular dwelling, the house was raised and remodelled in 1929, when accommodation was reorganised to include a reception and kitchen on the ground floor with four small bedrooms on the upper floor. Ordnance Survey maps show a building occupying the present footprint from 1831–32, likely then a single-storey structure, with additions visible by 1855 and further separate structures recorded by 1904. The 1901 census records it as a four-room thatched house classified as second class, occupied by the retired farmer Andrew Edgar, aged 87, whose son James ran the farm with his wife and five children, plus a resident farm servant.

Griffith's Valuation (1856–64) records the site as two separate holdings, with the main dwelling leased from Eliza Moore. The farm comprised over 12 acres. By the 1930s, the surrounding structures served as a stable, barn, milking house, byre, former dwelling (then used for boiling potatoes), poultry house, and piggery with open shed. The remodelling of 1929 raised the valuation of the farm buildings from £1 to £4 10 shillings.

The building does not meet the criteria for listing.