5 Coastguard Cottages, Causeway View Lane, Portrush, BT56 8DA

Two-storey mid terrace house part of a former Coastguard station built in 1896. The station consists of the detached two-storey station building/commander officer's house, and six two-storey dwellings - of which this is one - arranged in a terrace, as well as original outhouses 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 terrace (1-6 Coastguard Cottages) is orientated north-south with the former station (130 Main Street) to the south end of the site with its south side facing on to the pavement onto Main Street. Cottages 3-4, and 5-6 are paired, with a mirrored internal layouts and identical internal accommodation. These are entered from the east side, with access off Causeway View Lane. Nos.1 and 2 are also paired with mirrored internal layouts and are entered on the west side with access off Main Street and are slightly larger than Nos 3-6. The relative size no doubt reflected the status of the occupants with no.130 occupied by the commanding officer and Nos 1-2 by middle ranking officers. This house is mid-terraced, sitting to the immediate north side of no.4. The front façade faces east and is accessed is via a communal yard. The roof is pitched and finished with natural slate and grey fireclay ridge tiles; eaves are overhanging with exposed rafter tails. Rainwater goods are uPVC. There is a shared rendered chimneystack to the ridge with corbelled bands and unmatched clay pots. Walls are rendered; these have a ruled and lined finish; that to the west side is set on a rubble stone canted plinth. To the left side of the rear façade there is a single-storey projecting lean-to porch; to the north face there is a flat-headed door opening with a timber sheeted door while to the east there is a small flat-headed window with a single light timber frame. Windows are flat-headed; these are informally arranged to west and east facades. Frames are a mixture of 1/1 and 6/6 timber-sash. To the first floor of the west façade there are two windows, the larger to the left side and the smaller to the right. There is one window to the ground floor right side. Setting TThe gardens extend to the west side. To the east side there are two communal access yards, separated by a masonry wall. The area to the north side gives access to the front entrances of nos.3-6 while the southern area gives access to the rears of nos.130, and 1-2. To the rear of Nos 3-6 there is a small range of single-storey outbuildings (HB03/10/057H) , containing a communal washhouse and two small outhouses per dwelling (one an outside WC, the other a fuel store).