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

58 Dunedin Terrace is a two-bay, two-storey townhouse with attic, built around 1880 to designs by J & W Kirkpatrick, a local architectural firm. It occupies the end position of a prominent terrace on the north side of Lodge Road in Coleraine town centre. The building retains much of its original detailing and represents a well-preserved example of late-Victorian terraced townhouse architecture, of which Dunedin Terrace is among the finest surviving examples in Coleraine.

The house is square on plan with a two-storey canted bay and a two-storey return to the rear. The mansard natural slate roof is finished with blue and black angled ridge tiles and fish-scale tiles; the canted bay roof has natural slate with leaded hips and ridges. A replacement red-brick chimneystack sits on the gable. 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 throughout are segmental-headed 1/1 timber sash with horns and projecting painted sills; at ground-floor level these are boarded. Two gabled dormers light the attic, each with multi-paned timber windows set in timber frames with carved brackets beneath the eaves.

The principal elevation faces southwest. The two-storey canted bay is positioned to the left with windows to each facet. The ground-floor entrance door is to the right, with a 1/1 window above at first-floor level. The door is a four-panelled timber door with brass knob, set in a segmental-headed doorcase with etched glass panelled sidelights and a transom light reading "GALBRAITH".

The northwest gable has a small window opening to the attic, an elongated 1/1 window at first-floor level, and boarded window openings at ground floor. The northeast rear elevation includes a gabled dormer and a large wall-head dormer serving the attic, with a 1/1 window to the first floor on the right. The two-storey gabled return at the left has modern timber windows at first-floor level. The southeast gable is abutted by the adjoining building.

The building is set back from Lodge Road with a long front garden bounded by mature hedges, a low rendered wall with saddleback coping and a wrought-iron latch-gate, and a brick pavior path to the entrance. The rear yard is enclosed by a high cement-rendered wall and contains a two-storey slate-roofed outbuilding (forming part of a terrace of service buildings) with cement-rendered walls, modern windows, and plastic rainwater goods. A concrete communal yard to the northeast serves the terrace and includes a gravelled parking area.

Dunedin Terrace was entered into valuation records in 1880, named in 1881, and first appears on the third edition Ordnance Survey map of 1904. The terrace was considered to occupy the best and sunniest side of Lodge Road and attracted middle-class occupants—merchants, professionals, and office workers—many of whom employed domestic servants. The house was initially valued at £22, reduced to £20 in 1887, likely following an appeal.

The first recorded occupant was Mrs Rankin, leasing from Oliver H Liken. Subsequent residents included Robert O'Neill (solicitor, from 1893), William James Thompson, a house furnisher who lived with his wife, young daughter, and two domestic servants (1911), William Todd, Oliver H Liken again, and James B Stewart. Elizabeth Stewart, Samuel Callaghan, and James McCandless followed; McCandless added a motor house to the plot in 1927, increasing the valuation to £23. By the 1930s the house contained a reception room, kitchen, scullery and pantry on the ground floor; two bedrooms, bathroom, WC and reception on the first floor; and three bedrooms on the second floor. It originally had gas lighting and the rear outbuilding was cobbled inside. Historical records note the terrace was built at a cost of approximately £1,400 per house.

The building was listed in 1977 and underwent renovations in the 1980s including underpinning, tying and extending of the gable wall. It currently stands vacant. No. 58 has significant group value with other listed buildings in the terrace and is of considerable local interest as part of Coleraine's Victorian development.