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

A two-storey terraced house, built in 1896 as part of the former Coastguard station complex. The station originally comprised a detached two-storey commander officer's house (now 130 Main Street), six two-storey dwellings arranged in a terrace (of which this is one), original outhouses, and a later boathouse with associated store.

The buildings were designed in a simple, loosely Georgian style. The entire grouping may originally have been finished in brick but is now almost entirely rendered. The site occupies a prominent position in urban Portrush, to the north of the town centre, on a slight rise between Main Street to the south and Causeway View Lane to the north. Detached gardens belonging to each dwelling are set to the west side. At the north-west corner of the site, facing Causeway View Lane, stands a single-storey Belfast Truss-roofed building, separately recorded.

The terrace (Cottages 1-6) is orientated north-south. Cottages 3-4 and 5-6 are paired with mirrored internal layouts and identical accommodation, entered from the east side via Causeway View Lane. Cottages 1-2 are also paired with mirrored layouts but slightly larger, reflecting the status hierarchy of occupants—the commander officer at No. 130, middle-ranking officers at Nos 1-2, and lower ranks at Nos 3-6. This house is mid-terraced, immediately north of No. 2, with its front façade facing east.

Access is via a communal yard, with a later brick wall dividing off the section facing No. 3. A single-storey kitchen return extends to the rear, built as a lean-to against the rear return of No. 2 and housing the main entrance. The return is positioned to the left of the east façade.

The east façade features a wide, flat-headed window opening with painted timber casement frame to the left of the north face, and a flat-headed door opening with plain flat-panel timber door to the right. Window openings throughout are flat-headed. Two first-floor openings to the return have 3/6 timber sash frames; all remaining openings to the east and west sides are modern timber casements.

The pitched roof is finished with natural slate and grey fireclay ridge tiles, with overhanging eaves and exposed rafter tails. Rainwater goods are uPVC. A shared rendered chimneystack rises to the ridge, decorated with corbelled bands and matching clay pots. Walls are finished with ruled and lined render; the west side render sits on a rubble stone canted plinth.

To the east, two communal access yards are separated by a masonry wall. The northern yard provides access to front entrances of Cottages 3-6; the southern yard serves the rears of No. 130 and Cottages 1-2. Behind Cottages 3-6 stands a small range of single-storey outbuildings containing a communal washhouse and two small outhouses per dwelling (one outside WC, one fuel store).