Millburn Terrace, 45 Millburn Road, Coleraine, Co. Londonderry, BT52 1QT

Millburn Terrace, 45 Millburn Road, Coleraine is a two-bay, three-storey mid-terrace Victorian townhouse built circa 1866. It stands on the east side of Millburn Road close to Coleraine town centre, forming part of a prominent mid-nineteenth century terrace of nine townhouses that makes a considerable contribution to the architectural quality and character of the town.

The building is square on plan with a two-storey canted bay to the front and a three-storey return to the rear with an extension abutting a two-storey rendered outbuilding. The pitched roof is natural slate with blue and black angled ridged tiles. Chimneystacks are polychrome brick and rendered with tall clay pots. Cast-iron ogee rainwater goods sit on projecting eaves. The walling is painted smooth render on a chamfered plinth.

Windows are replacement 1/1 timber sash with horns set in painted smooth render surrounds with keyblocks and projecting painted sills. The canted bay windows have continuous sills framed by pilasters with lintel mouldings and central keyblocks—those to the central windows are vermiculated. Panelled aprons ornament the second floor windows.

The principal northwest-facing elevation is two windows wide at second floor, with a two-storey canted bay at the left featuring cornice and modillioned eaves. A Classical-style doorcase at the right comprises panelled pilasters and a frieze carved with Greek key motif and scrolled acanthus-leaf console brackets supporting a corniced canopy. The doorcase contains a replacement bolection-moulded four-panelled timber door with brass knocker and transom light inscribed "45", accessed by two stone steps. The northeast elevation is abutted by the adjoining building. The southeast rear elevation is fully abutted by the three-storey return with canted bay window at second floor, abutting the two-storey outbuilding at first and ground floor levels. The southwest elevation is abutted by the adjoining building.

The house sits on a slightly elevated lawned and shrubbed site with a concrete pathway leading to steps accessing a paved patio at the front. A rubblestone wall with sandstone coping and mature shrubbery bounds the property to the road. Hedges separate it from neighbouring properties. A rendered two-storey outbuilding to the rear, originally forming part of a terrace, has been modified and incorporated into the main house with replacement window openings and a timber-sheeted door to the southeast elevation.

Originally named Clifton Terrace, the building was erected circa 1866 on land owned by Richard Olphert of Millburn House. It first appears on the third edition Ordnance Survey map of 1904. The terrace was developed by the Coleraine Building Society, established in 1864, as one of their first major projects. The contractor was Joseph Esdale. The terrace was originally eight dwellings (a ninth added circa 1875) and was named "Clifton" after the family name of Lady Bruce, wife of Sir Henry Hervey Bruce, president of the building society. All houses were built with canted bays, railings to the front, and a row of outbuildings to the rear.

Number 45 was initially occupied by Andrew Steedman as a house, office and garden, leased from Richard Olphert and valued at £16 15s. Subsequent early occupiers included Alexander Crawford (1879), Mrs Crawford (1882), and Alice Schlotthauber (1891), with Steedman returning in 1894. In 1895, a new double-height bow window was added to the front elevation and an addition was made to the return, resulting in a rise in valuation to £17 5s. Andrew Steedman was a produce merchant, insurance agent and building society secretary who lived in the house with his three adult children and a general domestic servant. His two sons and daughter assisted in the egg and butter business operated on the Waterside. The terrace was listed in 1997 and the dwelling remains in domestic use. The building has considerable group value as one of the best preserved examples of Victorian terraced architecture in the town and is of local interest.