58 Queens Parade, Bangor, Co Down, BT20 3BH

58 Queens Parade is a three-storey, two-bay Victorian mid-terrace dwelling built in 1883. It was erected as one half of a symmetrical pair with its adjoining neighbour (now 57 Queens Parade), and forms part of the larger terrace that developed along the Bangor promenade. The building retains its original character and detailing and has group value with its paired dwelling.

The house is constructed of painted dashed and stucco-rendered brick walling with a projected plinth course, moulded string course, and plain corbel course. The pitched natural slate roof features a crested clay ridge and brick chimney-stack with clay pots, partially rendered at the lower stage. Cast-iron rainwater goods include an ogee-moulded gutter with circular downpipe, though some sections over the canted bay have been replaced with uPVC.

The principal elevation faces north and is asymmetrically arranged. The front door is located to the left, set within a deep inset to a moulded stilted round-headed arch with a segmental-arched string course above. The right bay projects slightly and rises to a three-storey gable, embracing a two-storey canted bay topped with a cornice and coping stones. The bay openings are flanked by smooth render pilasters rising to impost level, with deep moulded stilted rounded-cornered heads. Ground-floor openings have chamfered cills, with a continuous moulded cill course serving the first floor. Second-floor openings feature plain smooth rendered surrounds with paired diminutive narrow sash windows to the left (unusually deeply set) and larger paired segmental-arched openings to the right. The right gable features small paired triangular-headed recesses and a painted terracotta brick course, with heavy rendered coping above. Ground and first-floor windows are 1/1 timber sliding sashes with horns and rounded corners; second-floor windows are segmental-arched. A replacement timber door with a round-headed fixed light above provides the main entrance. The date "1883" is inscribed on the building in recessed segmental-arched panels over the first-floor windows.

The left elevation is abutted by the adjoining pair (57 Queens Parade). The rear elevation shares a two-storey pitched-roof return with the neighbour and includes a two-storey pitched-roof addition extending the full width of the site, which encloses a small yard. This rear section features replacement uPVC casement windows and a shared red brick chimney. A wall-head dormer with a segmental-arched window projects from the second floor on the left side. The right elevation is abutted by 60 Queens Parade.

The setting includes a front garden with a stepped concrete path running parallel to a lawn, bounded by a rubble masonry wall with rendered coping and piers supporting a modern mild steel gate. To the north lie landscaped public gardens adjacent to Marine Gardens, with views towards the marina. Somerset Avenue lies to the south, with alley access to the rear return from this direction. The rear yard is small and enclosed.

The house was developed as part of Bangor's expansion following the arrival of the railway in 1865. This section of Queens Parade was built during the late 1870s and early 1880s to accommodate the professional classes and holidaymakers attracted to the town. The terrace replaced an earlier row of single-storey cottages. The area was previously known as 'Kinnegar', a reference to a rabbit warren that had occupied the site. The street was renamed following a visit by King Edward VII and Queen Alexandra in 1903 and formally altered in valuation records in 1907.

The building was initially valued at £32 in 1884 (reduced to £30 in 1886, probably following an appeal) and was leased from William James Campbell, likely the site's developer, who also built nearby numbers 47 and 48 Queens Parade around 1893. The house was first occupied by Alexander Deans from 1890. By 1901, it was occupied by Mary Jamieson, a widow running the premises as a boarding house alongside her widowed mother and her sixteen-year-old son Willie H Jamieson, who worked as an office clerk. By 1911, Mary Jamieson lived alone and was supported by share dividends, with two visitors from Donegal staying at the time of census. She occupied the house until at least 1930. The building continues in use as a private dwelling.