6 Dhu Varren Park, Portrush, Co. Antrim, BT56 8EN

6 Dhu Varren Park is a two-bay, two-storey rendered townhouse with dormer attic, built around 1908 and situated on the south side of Dhu Varren Park in Portrush. It forms part of a coherent group of Edwardian townhouses typical of the rapid suburban expansion of the early twentieth century, though the terrace is of limited special architectural or historic interest.

The building is mid-terrace, square on plan with a projecting ground floor to the front and full-height gabled return to the rear. The pitched natural slate roof is finished with terracotta angled ridge tiles and has yellow-brick chimneys; timber bargeboards and terracotta finials adorn the gables. Cast-iron ogee rainwater goods sit on projecting eaves. The walling comprises painted smooth render with a scotia-moulded string-course supporting the rainwater goods between first floor and attic; the rear return is finished in roughcast render.

The windows are uPVC sash with margin panes and multi-paned top-lights in stop-end chamfered reveals with projecting painted sills; bullnose continuous sills run across grouped windows. The principal elevation faces north, displaying two wall-head dormer windows to the attic above three windows at first-floor level, with the two right-hand windows more closely grouped under a continuous sill. A monopitched red-tiled roof covers the ground floor. A group of three windows sits at the right, with the outer windows narrower than the central light. The entrance door is a bolection-moulded four-panel timber door with a lion-head knocker, positioned in a stop-end chamfered reveal and accessed by two concrete steps; an original timber transom light with margin panes and multi-paned top-lights sits above. The east and west elevations are abutted by adjoining buildings; the south (rear) elevation is abutted by the gabled return, which contains a uPVC window to the second floor.

The property occupies a rectangular plot in a residential area of Portrush, directly opposite the Coleraine–Portrush train line and Dhu Varren halt. A single-storey modern garage with up-and-over metal door stands to the rear. The front garden is lawned with a brick paviour pathway to the entrance door, enclosed to the west by modern timber fencing and to the street at the north by timber fencing with a modern timber latch gate.

The terrace of six dwelling houses was built around 1908 and first appears on the fourth edition Ordnance Survey map of 1922–31. The end terrace (number 4) is of different design but was constructed contemporaneously. Originally named Grangemount, the terrace entered valuation records in 1908 as newly built vacant properties, with number 3 valued at £31 and the remainder at £27. Number 3 was built by James Lyon, manager of Ballyrashane Creamery, while the remainder was constructed by James Kennedy, who was resident at number 5 by 1910 and let the remaining houses to a succession of tenants. Following the First World War, the houses were sold individually and separately owned and let, occasionally as boarding houses serving the thriving nearby resort of Portrush. Annie Graham was the first occupant noted at number 6, in 1910, and she operated the dwelling as a boarding house with her two sisters, Mary and Ellen. The thirteen-room house was designated as first class in the 1911 census. Francis Welsch took over in 1914 and William Lyons in 1924. Valuer's notes from the 1930s record that the house was purchased in 1926 for £790. An associated plan shows the house with a porch to the front elevation, three-storey rear return, and a yard containing a WC, outhouse, and glasshouse. The building continues in use as a domestic house.