Martello House, 13 Bangor Road, Holywood, Co Down, BT18 0NU

A semi-detached two-storey three-bay house with attic, built c.1835, located on the south side of Bangor Road. The house is L-shaped on plan with lower two-storey mezzanine return to re-entrant angle. Hipped natural slate roof with angled clay ridge tiles. Chimneystacks are rendered with moulded caps and octagonal clay pots. Ogee cast-iron rainwater goods to projecting stone eaves, supported on a frieze of carved brackets over a moulded architrave. Walling is ruled-and-lined cement rendered. Windows to principal elevations are 2/2 timber sashes (horizontally divided) with projecting sandstone sills. Ground floor windows have moulded architraves; first floor windows have a string course rising over window heads. Windows to rear and return are sashes (1/1 to rear, 6/6 to return, 3/6 to attic) with the exception of two plain glazed insertions. Garden-facing elevation faces northwest and is three windows wide. Entrance elevation faces southwest and is four openings wide to each floor. The entrance is offset to left and is contained beneath a masonry porch comprising square piers with responds and plain entablature (cornice and blocking course are lead-capped). The door has six raised-and-fielded panels and bronze knocker, and is set into an elliptical arch with segmented fanlight. It is flanked by multi-pane sidelights with timber aprons, all divided by clustered timber pilasters. To ground floor left is a canted bay with traditional arrangement of three 1/1 sashes with horns. Both windows to right have been extended to ground level and fitted with three-part stacked sashes. The southeast gable has two modern ground floor window insertions and a replacement sash in original opening at first floor. The northeast elevation and returning northeast elevation are partially abutted by the lower return. The exposed section of the main house has two attic windows and modern sliding patio doors to right side. The returning rear (east) elevation is obscured by the lower return (with the exception of the attic floor, not seen). The return is lit to east only by two sash windows to each floor (asymmetrically arranged) and is completely abutted at north by the adjoining house (HB23/20/016B). Setting To rear is an L-shaped single-storey outbuilding of random rubble stone, partially rebuilt, with brick dressed openings and natural slate roof, now converted to offices. The house is set back from Bangor Road on an elevated site with mature gardens to front. The rear portion of the site has been developed with a modern house, and is overlooked by the shell of a windmill. It is accessed by a sweeping gravel drive with entrance marked by two polygonal rendered piers (of a group of three, that to centre shared with HB23/20/016B) with moulded caps. Gates are cast-iron. Roof: Hipped natural slate Walling: Ruled-and-lined rendered Windows: Timber sashes RWG: Ogee cast-iron