Glen Cottage, 43 Bangor Road, Groomsport, Co Down, BT19 6JF

An evolved asymmetrical one-and-a-half storey four-bay house, built c.1830, extended c. 1850 and remodelled c.1880, located on the west side of Bangor Road Groomsport at the south end of Glenganagh estate (HB23/01/001A-B). The house is rectangular on plan with return to east. Roof is pitched natural slate with angled clay ridge tiles and plainly detailed cement rendered chimneystacks (five to main ridge, one to return). Rainwater goods are cast-iron over exposed rafter tails and corbel course; gables have plain timber bargeboards. Walling is roughcast rendered throughout. Windows are timber sashes with contrasting frames, plain reveals and projecting painted masonry cills. Generally 6/1 configuration, 2/2 (horizontally divided) configuration to larger ground floor windows; variations stated with elevations below. Doors are painted sheeted timber with cast-iron door furniture. Principal elevation faces west, overlooking the beach, and has attic windows set into gables to all bays with the exception of that to extreme right. Bays are detailed as follows (from left): two windows to ground floor and one above; a large margin-paned window to ground floor and one above; a full-height canted bay with traditional three of 2/2 sashes with single window above; the right bay is vernacular in character (likely to be the earliest part of the house) with a single window to ground floor. Left gable is blank with the exception of a modern timber door leading to a makeshift shed. Rear elevation is abutted by a return with catslide extension to north, containing main entrance. The exposed right bay has a door with three-light transom; exposed left bay has a single window. The return has a catslide porch to south, containing main entrance, with window to right. The east elevation has a door with transom light and remains of a cast-iron bootscraper, surmounted by a round-headed 1/1 sash window, and further window to right side. The north elevation has a small high-level window beneath eaves. Right gable has an attic window. Setting The house is set in wooded surroundings close to, but well screened from, the Bangor Road to east. There is a lawned garden to front, bounded by a rubble stone wall and circumnavigated by a grass and earth driveway to parking spaces at north west of house. A natural wooded bank leads to Ballyholme beach, at west. The main house at Glenganagh is set to north. Roof: Natural slate Walling: Roughcast Windows: Timber RWG: Cast-iron