12 Cliff Terrace, Castlerock, Co. Londonderry, BT51 4RQ

End-of-terrace single-bay one-and-a-half-storey stone former labourer’s cottage, built c.1875, as one of twelve by Sir William Harvey Bruce to the designs of Frederick Henry Godwin. Rectangular on plan facing north with gable-fronted two-storey rendered extension to rear, added c.2010. Steeply pitched natural slate roof, half-hipped to gable with roll-moulded black clay ridge tiles and a tall rendered chimneystack rising from the west gable. Pair of dormer windows to the front pitch (that to the east shared with adjoining house HB03/12/007K) with hipped slate roofs, timber pinnacles and replacement timber casement windows. Moulded cast-iron guttering supported on timber fascia. Deep overhanging eaves with timber sheeting and exposed timber beams supported on a stop-chamfered timber bracket on sandstone corbel. Random coursed rock-faced basalt walling with tooled sandstone ashlar dressings and cement pointing. East gable extends to eaves with sandstone ashlar dressings. Square-headed window opening formed in stop-chamfered dressed sandstone surround and sandstone sill with replacement four-light timber casement window. Front elevation has a single window opening and a segmental-headed recessed entrance porch with stop-chamfered dressed sandstone surround and keystone. Entrance porch shared with No.11 having a square-headed door opening set at a right angle to the facade with replacement sheeted timber door. The porch has a clay tiled floor and a large worn sandstone step opening onto a slightly raised area laid in cobbles and running the entire length of the terrace. East elevation abutted by adjoining house No.11 (HB03/12/007K). Rear elevation is abutted by a gable-fronted two-storey rendered extension to rear, added c.2010. Cement render over rubblestone walling to west elevation extending to the rear as a single-bay two-storey side elevation to the rear extension having a wall-head dormer window to the west pitch. Setting: Built as part of a terrace of twelve similar houses on an elevated site overlooking the sea to the west of Castlerock. Street-fronted with paved rear yard enclosed by rendered wall and timber gates on rubblestone piers. Roof: Natural slate RWG : Cast-iron Walling : Random coursed rock-faced basalt Windows : Replacement timber casement