12 New Road, Donaghadee, County Down, BT21 0DR

12 New Road is a large, two and a half storey Edwardian free style terrace house, part of a distinctive asymmetric block of three dwellings designed circa 1905 by architect James A. Hanna, possibly not built until circa 1907. The building was commissioned for Mr. Francis McCormick JP, who occupied No. 16; the remaining houses were developed speculatively.

The terrace exemplifies Hanna's characteristic eclecticism, combining canted bays with scalloped parapets, half dormer gables, and prominent chimneys in a mixture of brick, stone, and rough cast. No. 12 occupies the east end and is largely identical to the middle property, No. 14, both having ultimately traditional plan terraces dressed in Edwardian facades. No. 16 to the west is slightly larger with a less traditional, freer plan.

The asymmetric north facade has a glazed and panelled front door with simple four-pane fanlight to the right side of the ground floor. To the left is a two storey canted flat-roofed bay with decorative scalloped parapet. Each face of the bay features a simple six-pane casement window on the ground floor and a shorter window to the first floor, both dressed with sandstone surrounds. At attic level, a large gabled half-dormer centred on the bay contains a three-pane casement window. The half-dormer wall edges are battered, while the gable has a moulded coping.

The east gable has two ground floor casement windows: a six-pane example to the far left and a narrower three-pane window to the right. The first floor has a wide nine-pane casement window to the left side. The second floor, set within the gable, has two evenly spaced plain casement windows. A slightly projecting chimney breast in brick rises vertically through ground and first floors, then offsets left before rising to the gable chimneystack.

The rear south elevation has a six-pane casement window to the ground floor right side, while the left is obscured by a two storey gabled return. The western face of the return is blank; the gabled south face has a recently added brick-faced lean-to porch addition to the left side of the ground floor. A large modern single storey flat-roofed extension is attached to the south face of the return, somewhat lower in height than the lean-to. The return's first floor centre has a 2/2 sash window. The ground floor east face has a wide modern window to the left and a relatively wide 2/2 sash window to the right. The first floor east face has three narrow sash windows (2/2, 2/2, and 1/1 reading left to right). A tall chimneystack rises from the middle of the south facade eaves. A small Velux window sits at the centre of the main rear roof.

The return, rear elevation, and first floor of the north facade are finished in roughcast render. The ground floor of the north and east facades are finished in facing brick. The main and return roofs are covered with natural slate. Cast iron rainwater goods are present throughout.

The terrace is sited on the south side of New Road, to the north of Donaghadee town centre. Architect's original drawings are held by the owner of No. 14.