7 The Square, Main Street, Cushendun, Co.Antrim

7 The Square, Main Street, Cushendun, Co. Antrim

This is a two-storey four-bay house in Edwardian style, built in 1912 to designs by London-based architect Clough Williams-Ellis. It forms part of a planned square of seven white painted rendered cottages arranged around three sides of an enclosed green, with the blocks linked at corners by rendered arches containing painted timber gates.

The house has a rectangular plan with a steeply pitched slated mansard roof punctuated by dormer windows set at a steeper angle than the upper slope. The concrete ridge is topped with two tall rendered chimney-stacks positioned at mid-ridge, each with black painted clay pots and stepped cornices; the left-side stack has been rebuilt.

The walls are white painted render with rendered quoins at each corner, set on a contrasting coloured plinth. Small-pane Georgian casement windows with timber shutters painted in contrasting colour are arranged regularly across the facades. Deep overhanging eaves feature exposed painted rafter tails, with half-round cast-iron guttering discharging to circular section downpipes.

The principal elevation faces south-east onto the enclosed green square, accessed via a paved footpath from the main entrance pillars. A paved stone pathway leads to a painted panelled timber door, off-centre on this elevation. The door has small multi-pane upper lights and painted metal furniture, set within a plain painted timber architrave. The four bays of the ground floor align with slated dormers on the first floor above.

The north-east elevation faces Main Street, with a single bay containing a three-side canted bay window on the ground floor that projects into the eaves above, aligned with a slated dormer on the first floor.

The north-west elevation is adjoined to No. 6 Main Street, with the remaining part overlooking the rear yard of that property. It contains one casement window at ground floor and a single dormer window above.

The south-west side elevation overlooks a modest concrete and grassed yard accessed via the rendered arch gateway at the west corner. This yard is enclosed by a white rendered high wall to the right containing a timber entrance gate, and a low painted rendered wall with timber fence above to the left. The fenestration on this elevation is irregular, consisting of a single painted panelled door off-centre to the left, a double casement window to its left, and a smaller square window to the right, with a slated dormer centred above on the mansard roof.

The Square stands within a Conservation Area in Cushendun village, close to the River Dun, within a designated Area of Outstanding Natural Beauty.