82 Hamilton Road, Bangor, Co Down, BT20 4LG

A single-bay two-storey end-terrace cottage, built c. 1869 as a cottage hospital and converted into three dwellings in 1912, located on Hamilton Road, Bangor. Square-on-plan with projecting porch and single-storey side return. Pitched natural slate roof with terracotta ridge tiles and overhanging sheeted eaves. Tall rectangular brick and render chimneystacks with six decorative terracotta pots. Plastic rainwater goods throughout. Walling is Flemish bonded red brick with cement quoins and plinth. Windows are paired 1/1 timber sliding sash with horns having sandstone sills and label moulds. The principal elevation faces south-west and is symmetrically arranged with a window opening to ground floor on either side of a projecting porch. Porch comprises segmental timber door with cast-iron door furniture in chamfered brick reveal having flat brick lintel; lit to east and west by slender round-headed windows. The north-west elevation has a window opening to ground and first floor. The north-east elevation is abutted by adjoining building; HB23/05/007B. The south-east elevation has a window opening to ground and first floor and is abutted by a modern extension, which is adjoined by an outbuilding (originally the mortuary). The exposed section of the return has two window openings and a timber half-door. Where the extension and the outbuilding meet there is a simple timber door. Setting The terrace is situated to the north entrance of Ward Park beside the Carnegie library (HB23/05/006) and is set back slightly from the road; paved to front and south-west with hedgerow to all sides. There is a small garden to the rear, accessed from the south-west by a cast-iron latch gate. Roof: Natural slate Walling: Brick Windows: Timber RWG: uPVC