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

Two-storey terraced house, part of a former Coastguard station built in 1896. The entire station complex originally consisted of a detached two-storey station building (the commander officer's house), six two-storey dwellings arranged in a terrace (of which this is one), original outhouses, and a later boathouse with associated store. Designed in a simple, loosely Georgian style, the buildings were originally finished in brick but are now almost entirely rendered. The complex is set in an urban location north of Portrush town centre, on a slight rise between Main Street to the south and Causeway View Lane to the north.

The terrace (1-6 Coastguard Cottages) is orientated north-south with the former station building (130 Main Street) at the south end, its south façade facing the Main Street pavement. Cottages 3-4 and 5-6 are paired with mirrored internal layouts and identical accommodation, entered from the east side via Causeway View Lane. Cottages 1 and 2 are also paired with mirrored layouts but are slightly larger, entered from the west side with access off Main Street. This disparity in size reflected the status of occupants: the station commander occupied No. 130, middle-ranking officers occupied Nos. 1-2, and junior officers occupied Nos. 3-6.

This house is mid-terraced, positioned immediately north of No. 1, with a two-storey return projecting to the left (south) at the rear. The front entrance is located on the west façade, with a small private yard to the rear. A communal access yard to the east of the return serves the rears of Nos. 1 and 2. The pitched roof is finished with natural slate and grey fireclay ridge tiles with overhanging eaves and exposed rafter tails. A shared rendered chimneystack with corbelled bands and matching clay pots runs to the ridge. Rainwater goods are uPVC.

Walls are finished in ruled and lined render with a rubble stone canted plinth on the west side. The west façade features a flat-headed timber door set left of centre. To its right is a flat-headed window with cut stone sill and painted timber sash frame in 6/6 arrangement. To the left is a smaller similar window with a 2/2 sash arrangement. Matching windows appear at first floor above each. Rear windows follow the same pattern with 3/6 and 6/6 arrangements.

The detached gardens extend to the west. To the east are two communal access yards separated by a masonry wall: the northern area gives access to front entrances of Nos. 3-6, whilst the southern area provides access to the rears of the station building and Nos. 1-2. Behind Nos. 3-6 stands a small range of single-storey outbuildings containing a communal washhouse and two outhouses per dwelling (one outside WC, one fuel store).