Ardnalea House, 69 Station Road, Craigavad, Bangor, County Down, BT19 1EZ

An attached two-storey two-bay house with basement, built c.1845, located on the north side of Station Road, Holywood, and formerly comprising the eastern part of a large detached residence, now separated into four separate dwellings (HB23/16/006B is converted into three apartments). The house is rectangular on plan. Roof is hipped natural slate with tall rendered chimneystacks, moulded caps. Overhanging eaves cornice with ogee cast iron rainwater goods. Walling is rendered with cornice, frieze and architrave to each floor, and cill course to first floor. Windows are double-hung metal framed and timber casements to ground floor; first floor windows are generally 1/1 horned timber sashes with the exception of a 2/4 timber stairwell window to rear with 2/1 (horizontally divided) flanking lights; uPVC replacement windows to basement; projecting painted masonry cills throughout. Door is modern timber panelled replacement with sidelights and transom. Principal elevation faces north; the entire elevation consists of six equally spaced openings to each floor; No. 61 comprises the four openings to centre and left side; the two openings at right comprise HB23/16/006B (Apartment 1 to ground floor, Apartment 2 to first floor). The east elevation has exposed basement; a canted bay rises from basement to ground floor, having three openings at each floor (including a door to basement); basement has a window to left, with a blind niche over at ground floor. First floor has three windows. The rear (south) elevation has asymmetrical fenestration over two floors and exposed basement and contains the entrance, which has a painted masonry canopy over. It is abutted to left side by the former return, now part of HB23/16/006B. No west elevation. Setting The house occupies a secluded setting accessed from a residential lane off Station Road. An expansive lawn to north gives an open aspect to Belfast Lough, and there are small gardens bounded by a hedge to rear. The house is accessed from south via a gravel lane. Roof: Natural slate Walling: Render Windows: Timber / metal RWG: Cast-iron