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

This is an end-of-terrace two-storey house, built in 1896 as part of a former Coastguard station complex. The station originally comprised 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. The entire grouping was designed in a simple, loosely Georgian style and may originally have been finished in brick, but is now almost entirely rendered.

The complex sits in urban surroundings north of Portrush town centre, on a slight rise between Main Street to the south and Causeway View Lane to the north. The terrace (Nos 1-6 Coastguard Cottages) runs north-south, with the former station at 130 Main Street positioned at the south end of the site. Cottages 3-4 and 5-6 are paired with mirrored internal layouts and are accessed from the east side via Causeway View Lane. Nos 1 and 2 are also paired with mirrored layouts but are slightly larger and accessed from the west side via Main Street, reflecting the higher status of their occupants. No. 6 sits at the north end of the terrace. Gardens belonging to each dwelling are detached and set to the west side.

The front facade of No. 6 faces east and is accessed via a communal yard. The roof is pitched and finished with artificial slate and grey fireclay ridge tiles, with overhanging eaves and exposed rafter tails. Rainwater goods are uPVC. A shared rendered chimneystack runs to the ridge with corbelled bands and unmatched clay pots. The walls are rendered and painted with a ruled and lined finish; the west wall is set on a rubble stone canted plinth. Windows are flat-headed and informally arranged across the west and east facades, with uPVC frames. A single-storey projecting lean-to porch is positioned to the right side of the rear west facade. The south face has a flat-headed door opening with a timber 'stable' door. The east face has a small flat-headed window. The centre of the north facade has a later flat-headed door opening, reached by a short flight of concrete steps, which does not appear to be in use.

To the east side of the terrace are two communal access yards separated by a masonry wall. The northern yard provides access to the front entrances of Nos 3-6, while the southern yard provides access to the rears of No. 130 and Nos 1-2. Behind Nos 3-6 stands a small range of single-storey outbuildings containing a communal washhouse and two small outhouses per dwelling (an outside WC and a fuel store). The terrace is set back behind a rubble-stone wall topped with rubble stone coping, which merges with the north side of the outbuildings. At the centre of this wall is a coach entrance providing access to a communal parking area, flanked by squared dressed-stone gate pillars topped with chamfered copestones. Replacement timber gates have been added. The gates, pillars, and eastern side of the wall are associated with this house and the terrace. Gardens extend to the west side.