Tudor House, 6 Tudor Park, Holywood, Co Down, BT18 0NX

A fine two-storey with attic multi-bay semi-detached stucco house in Tudor-Revival style, built c.1850, located in secluded grounds off Tudor Oaks Road to the east of Holywood. Rectangular-on-plan with series of gabled wings extending from rectangular main block. Pitched natural slate roof with blue/black angled ridge tiles; raised stone skews and kneelers. Tall stone clustered chimneystacks arranged in groups of three and four, having ovolo moulded heavy plinth. Cast-iron ogee rainwater goods on drive-in brackets. Walling is smooth rendered/stucco with quoins over a chamfered plinth. Windows are a variety of timber-framed sliding sash in simple chamfered surrounds with chamfered sills; hood moulds to second floor and label moulds to ground floor windows (unless otherwise stated). Principal elevation (entrance) faces northeast. Main rectangular block to north comprises three-storey entrance bay flanked by two gables, each a single opening wide with canted bay to ground floor (right bay having parapet). Gabled porch with pinnacle and cartouche detail (also diminutive cartouche detailing to exposed section); contains four-and-a-half panelled pointed arch timber door in bead-moulded recessed surround, accessed by stone step; exposed section to north with slender window. To south are three gabled wings; that to right containing two-storey entrance bay with panelled timber entrance door; those to left have multi-pane openings to ground and first floor (both having label moulds and stops) and diminutive window to second floor. To extreme left there is a garden wall with panelled timber door in exposed section to north. Exposed section of gable to main block has stained glass window to first floor. The southeast elevation of main block is two windows wide with stained glass window to left at first floor and dormer window with decorative bargeboard to right. The south elevation of rear wing is blank to first floor (ground floor concealed by garden wall). The southwest elevation is abutted by adjoining building (HB 23/20/018A) The northwest elevation is gabled and a single window wide with canted bay to ground floor having four openings. Setting The house is set on an elevated site looking out towards Belfast Lough. Lawned to front and accessed via a gravel drive from Tudor Oaks Road, the house sits in a mature site (which once extended to the Bangor Road below) and is surrounded by mature boundary trees and hedgerow. Roof: natural slate Walling: stucco Windows: timber Rainwater Goods: Cast-iron