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

60 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 stands on the north side of Lodge Road in Coleraine town centre and forms part of an important and prominent terrace. The building is one of the best-preserved representative examples of late-nineteenth-century terraced architecture in Coleraine and retains much of its original detailing.

The house is square on plan with a two-storey canted bay and two-storey return to the rear. The roof is mansard with natural slate, blue and black angled ridge tiles, and fish-scale tiles; the canted bay has a slate roof with leaded hips and ridges. There is a replacement red-brick chimneystack. Cast-iron ogee rainwater goods sit on a projecting eaves course. The walling is painted smooth render on a contrasting plinth with a platband between floors and a moulded eaves cornice; the rear return has painted roughcast render.

Windows are uPVC replacements in segmental-headed surrounds with projecting painted sills. At ground floor level of the canted bay, windows are square-headed with a continuous sill course. Two gabled dormers to the attic contain uPVC windows set in original segmental-headed timber frames with carved brackets under the eaves. The principal southwest-facing elevation features a two-storey canted bay to the left with a window to each facet. The ground floor right has an entrance door flanked by a first-floor window above. The original door is bolection-moulded, four-panelled timber with bronze door furniture, set in a segmental-headed doorcase with panelled sidelights and a transom light etched with "60".

The northwest elevation is abutted by the adjoining building. The northeast rear elevation has a gabled dormer at attic level and windows to first and ground floors to the right, with a two-storey gabled return abutted to the left featuring uPVC windows to the gable and right cheek. The southeast elevation is abutted by the adjoining building to the right.

The house is set back from Lodge Road with a lawned front garden bounded by mature hedges and modern timber fencing. A low rendered wall with saddleback coping and wrought-iron latch-gate encloses the front. The rear yard is bounded by a painted roughcast rendered wall. To the northeast stands a two-storey painted roughcast render slated outbuilding forming part of a terrace. This outbuilding has a square-headed carriage-arch opening with timber lintel at ground floor left, with a multi-paned fixed timber window to first floor over; a tripartite timber-framed window sits at ground floor right, abutted at the far right by a slated lean-to return opening to the northwest with a timber-sheeted door. The northeast elevation of the outbuilding has timber-sheeted gates to the carriage-arch entrance and a timber-sheeted loading door above. A concrete communal yard to the northeast contains a gravelled parking area.

Dunedin Terrace forms part of a terrace of seven houses, representing the only known work by local architects and brothers J & W Kirkpatrick of Blindgate Street, Coleraine. Lodge Road was laid out between 1833 and 1845, first appearing on O'Hagan's map of Coleraine in 1845. It is named after The Lodge, a dwelling house at the southern end, now replaced by a hotel. The closing decades of the nineteenth century saw a building boom of terraces and villas in Coleraine. The terrace entered valuation records in 1880 and was given the name Dunedin in 1881, first appearing on the third edition Ordnance Survey map of 1904.

The first recorded occupants were Alexander Allen in 1881 and John Mains in 1883. The house, office, yard, and small garden were leased from Oliver H Liken. Initially valued at £22, the valuation was reduced to £20 in 1887, probably following an appeal. The house subsequently became home to Michael Scanlon in 1887 and Elizabeth Walker in 1890. Miss Lizzie Stewart occupied it in 1911, followed by landlord Oliver H Liken in 1912. At the time of the 1901 census, Elizabeth Walker, an unmarried 53-year-old woman, lived with her cousin Elizabeth Stewart, who later took over the house. By the 1911 census, the occupier was widow Auderiah Robertson from County Leitrim, living with her three adult children, one of whom held a BA from the Royal University of Ireland and another a BA from Trinity College Dublin. The family kept no servants, unusually for the time. Subsequent occupiers included John Caldwell in 1914, Sarah Murdock in 1927, and Mary, Jane, and Winifred Murdock.

Valuer's notes from the 1930s record accommodation comprising 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 reported to have cost £1400 each to build and featured gas lighting, with the rear outbuilding cobbled inside. The house was listed in 1977, and renovations took place in the 1990s. Number 60 has group value with the other listed buildings in the terrace and is of significant local interest.