14 Lodge Road, Coleraine, Co. Londonderry, BT52 1NB

14 Lodge Road is a two-bay, three-storey-with-attic mid-terrace building constructed in 1880 on the east side of Lodge Road in Coleraine town centre. Originally built as a dwelling, it is now used as temporary accommodation. The building is part of a significant and well-preserved terrace of mid-to-late nineteenth-century architecture that forms an important contribution to Coleraine's character, the town being largely defined by its Victorian-era development.

The building is of rectangular plan with a modern two-storey return to the rear. The pitched roof is finished in natural slate with blue and black angled ridge tiles. Tall rendered chimneysstacks with pitched caps sit prominently on the structure, with cast-iron ogee rainwater goods set on bracketed eaves. The walls are painted smooth render over a contrasting plinth with a moulded string-course between ground and first floor; a continuous sill course runs at first-floor level with a moulded platband beneath the eaves.

Windows are 1/1 timber sashes with horns set in stop-end chamfered reveals and projecting painted sills. A tripartite timber-sheeted gabled dormer serves the attic, featuring round-headed window openings and decorative bargeboards with trefoil detailing and a finial. The principal southwest-facing elevation contains three openings per floor. The ground-floor entrance is positioned at the left and comprises a bolection-moulded four-panelled timber door with a plain transom light in a stop-end chamfered reveal. The entrance is flanked by pilasters and surmounted by a plain entablature with an ovolo-moulded cornice; it is accessed by a modern paved ramp.

The northwest elevation is abutted by the adjoining building. The rear northeast elevation features a modern two-storey return to the right, a modern dormer window to the attic, and modern timber casement windows to each floor at the left. The southeast elevation is similarly abutted by its neighbour.

The building is set back from Lodge Road with a small gravelled yard to the front and a concrete paved pathway. A painted render wall with saddleback coping and square piers with pointed caps encloses the front boundary. A tarmacadamed alley to the northwest of the terrace provides access to a car-park to the east. A rubblestone wall bounds the site at the north. A small paved yard lies to the rear, enclosed by a high painted render wall and a two-storey outbuilding. This outbuilding, which forms part of a terrace, has painted smooth rendered walls and slated roofs with rendered chimneysstacks. Its northeast elevation features two 2/2 timber sash windows with painted sills at first-floor level; the ground floor has been modified.

The house was built as part of a development of sixteen houses erected between approximately 1859 and 1888, largely occupied by middle-class residents many of whom were connected with customs and excise. The four-house group to which number 14 belongs was entered into valuation records in 1880, and the building was first shown on the large-scale map of Coleraine dating from 1882. The house was originally named 'Marie House' on valuation and large-scale maps of the 1880s. The terrace occupied the sunnier side of Lodge Road and housed middle-class merchants and professionals, most of whom kept at least one servant. Lodge Road itself was laid out between 1833 and 1845 and is first shown on O'Hagan's map of Coleraine dating from 1845, taking its name from 'The Lodge', a dwelling at the southern end now replaced by a hotel.

When first valued in 1881, the house, offices, yard and small garden were assessed at £24 10 shillings and were occupied by Henry A Macauley, leasing from Thomas Flanagan. Subsequent occupiers included John McMurbrry (1887) and the Flanagan family from the 1890s. At the 1901 census, the occupier was Thomas Flanagan, a pawnbroker and widower living with his two adult daughters and grandson, with a domestic servant from Tyrone employed in the household. His unmarried daughter assisted in the pawnbroker's business. The eleven-room house was designated first class. The 1911 census records William Lyons, a customs and excise supervisor, as occupier, living with his English-born wife and six children born in various parts of the British Isles, indicating the family had moved in connection with Lyons's employment.

In 1914 the house was taken over by Samuel McCreery, followed by Fanny Wright in 1915 and Robert McIntosh in 1918, the McIntosh family remaining as residents until at least the 1950s. Valuer's notes from the 1930s record ground-floor accommodation comprising a reception, kitchen, scullery and pantry; first-floor reception and two bedrooms; second-floor two bedrooms and bathroom; and attic two bedrooms. The house had water laid on and gas lighting at this time. The house was listed in 1977. In 1986 it was converted with its neighbour at number 16 into a single homeless hostel for the Simon Community, involving some rebuilding at the rear and restructuring of the interior. The extent of listing includes the house-terrace, walling, piers and outbuilding.