29 Main Street, Castlerock, Coleraine, Co. Londonderry, BT51 4RA

29 Main Street, Castlerock

A symmetrical split-level three-and-two-storey-over-basement red-brick house built around 1890, now divided into three apartments. Located on the north side of Main Street in Castlerock overlooking Castlerock Beach, it is rectangular in plan with projecting gabled end bays featuring two-storey canted bays, a two-storey L-shaped gabled wing to the southeast, a refurbished flat-roof conservatory to the southwest, and a modern uPVC conservatory to the northwest. Number 29 occupies the ground and first floor of the northwest gable and interlinking bay, accessed via the southwest conservatory.

The pitched natural slate roof features half-hipped covering to the central gable at the southwest with blue-and-black angled ridge tiles. Red-brick chimneystack with clay pots rise through it. Timber bargeboards on brackets with timber-sheeted soffits display quatrefoil detailing. Plastic rainwater goods sit on modillioned timber eaves with timber-sheeted soffits. The walling is Flemish-bonded red brick with channel-rusticated strip render quoins to the gabled bays and a continuous sill course between floors. Painted smooth render covers the canted bays and conservatory.

Windows are generally uPVC. Ground floor windows are segmental-headed in plain reveals with lugged painted render surrounds; segmental-headed openings also appear to the two-storey canted bays at the northeast. First floor windows are pointed-headed, paired to the gables and set into segmental-headed reveals with red-brick voussoirs and decorative polychrome hood moulds. Some segmental-headed 2/2 timber sash windows with horizontal glazing bars and horns serve the basement. The conservatory at the southwest contains replacement timber-framed windows with leaded-and-stained glass top-lights.

The entrance elevation faces southwest and is symmetrically arranged with a central entrance bay flanked by slightly projecting gabled end bays. It is abutted by the refurbished conservatory, which provides access to numbers 27 and 29, positioned above a red-brick basement. The gabled bays are connected by a narrow interlinking bay with replacement leaded-and-stained glass windows at each floor. Each gabled bay has paired windows to the first floor over two windows at ground floor. The right gable features an early twentieth-century double-leaf glazed timber door with a two-paned transom light to the basement. The left gable has a 2/2 sash window to the right and is abutted by a single-storey flat-roof extension lit by 2/2 timber sash windows and fitted with a replacement glazed timber door providing access to number 31 at the southeast. The central entrance bay is two windows wide at the first floor. The conservatory has channel-rusticated corner piers rising to parapet piers with partially intact timber balustrade and turned balusters. It is lit by timber-framed windows with a continuous sill course and moulded apron panels below, opening to the southwest through a set of replacement glazed timber doors. The basement beneath the conservatory has two replacement timber-sheeted doors at the northwest and one to the southeast, with a 2/2 sash window between them.

The northwest elevation has a square-headed window to the first floor centre over two at ground floor. The basement is abutted by the modern uPVC conservatory and has a 2/2 timber sash window at the left. The northeast elevation is three-storey and symmetrically arranged. Its central bay displays two square-headed windows at second floor and two sets of paired windows at first and ground floor. The flanking gabled bays each have a window to the second floor over two-storey canted bays. The southeast elevation is abutted by the two-storey L-shaped gabled wing. The northeast gable of this wing features a pointed-headed window over a canted bay with leaded roof and a flat-roof entrance porch (access to number 31) to the right. The porch has double-leaf bolection-moulded three-panel timber doors with transom light and sidelights carrying margin panes and coloured glass panels. The southwest gable of the two-storey wing is abutted by a single-storey red-brick extension connecting a modern two-storey red-brick dwelling under separate ownership.

The house sits on a rectangular plot overlooking the Irish Sea in a residential area. The basement to the southwest is enclosed by Flemish-bonded red-brick walls with painted coping stones topped by original decorative wrought-iron railings. The basement yard is laid with concrete and accessed from the northwest by a segmental-headed opening with timber frame. The garden is laid with modern paving and gravel to the southwest and lawn to the northeast, bounded by rubblestone walls. At the southwest entrance stand centred square painted render piers with pointed caps supporting original iron latch-gates. A modern two-storey red-brick building has been constructed directly to the southeast. A tarmacadamed driveway from Main Street leads to the entrance to number 31.