Ardnalea House, Apartments 1-3, 71-73 Station Road, Craigavad, Bangor, County Down, BT19 1EZ

An attached two-storey over basement multi-bay house with basement, comprising the western portion and return of a grand single dwelling, built c.1845, located on the south shores of Belfast Lough, at the north end of Station Road, Holywood. The house is rectangular on plan with lower single-storey extension with attic and basement (having separate porch entrance) to south. HB23/16/016B has been subdivided into three apartments; the eastern side of the house is a single separate dwelling (HB23/16/016A). 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 full-height double-hung timber framed and timber casements to ground floor (that to right end of principal elevation is a pair of doors, leading to Apartment 2); first floor windows are generally 1/1 horned timber sashes. Attic windows to extension have been raised to form tall round-headed dormers, breaking eaves. Principal elevation faces west and is symmetrically arranged with five equally spaced openings about a wide elliptical-arched entrance opening with modern glazed timber door and matching sidelights. The opening to right forms the entrance to Apartment 2; each is accessed by a perron over basement level bounded by modern metal railings and tiled with modern terracotta tiles. The elevation is extended to south by the lower extension (described later). The entire north elevation (HB23/16/016A and B) consists of six equally spaced openings to each floor; No. 71 comprises the two openings to right side (Apartment 1 to ground floor, Apartment 2 to first floor); remainder are part of HB23/16/006B. The east elevation is abutted by No. 69 at right side. The remaining section has two storeys with mezzanine storey between ground and first floors, all three windows wide and over a basement, which is open to a narrow perimeter channel. Windows are 1/1 sashes throughout, with projecting painted masonry sills and string course rising over windows at mezzanine level. The rear (south) elevation is abutted by the lower extension, which is further abutted by a modern gabled porch comprising the entrance to Apartment 3. It is a single bay deep and two windows wide to east and west; south gable is blank with the exception of the porch (of no interest). Setting The house occupies a secluded setting accessed from a private residential lane off Station Road. An expansive lawn to north gives an open aspect to Belfast Lough, and there is a gravel parking area to west, bordered with shrubs. There is a modern garage to south west corner of the site, which is accessed from south by a short gravel drive. Roof: Natural slate Walling: Render Windows: Timber RWG: Cast-iron