Belfast Trussed Roof Building, Adjacent to Nos. 5-6 Coastguard Cottages, Causeway View Lane, Portrush, County Antrim

This is a single-storey Belfast Truss-roofed garage, likely dating from around 1935 to 1940. Situated in an urban location to the north of Portrush town centre, it occupies the north-west corner of the former gardens of the adjoining houses, numbered 1 to 6 Coastguard Cottages. The garage serves as a minor example of this now uncommon roof system, which was once widespread but has diminished significantly in recent decades.

The external walls are faced with corrugated iron. The north front is symmetrical and gabled, featuring replacement steel 'up and over' garage doors on either side, with timber boarding in the central panel. The triangular space above the doors (the tympanum) is also finished with vertical timber boarding and a serrated lower edge. The east wall is largely obscured by planting. The barrel-vaulted roof is covered with mineral felt. The north wall adjoins the stone boundary wall of the coastguard cottages’ gardens. This wall is topped with rubble stone coping and contains a central coach entrance leading to a communal parking area. The entrance is flanked by squared dressed-stone gate pillars with chamfered copestones, and includes replacement timber gates. The gates, gate pillars, and the eastern side of the wall are associated with the adjoining houses and terrace.

The garage was built on part of the gardens originally belonging to numbers 5 and 6 Coastguard Cottages, sometime after 1921, and possibly as late as 1935, as it is not depicted on the Ordnance Survey map revised in that year. It does not appear to have any connection to the cottages themselves and was first shown on the 1965 Ordnance Survey map. The building’s former and current use is as a factory.