3 Tudor Park, Holywood, Co Down, BT19 0NX

A three-storey multi-bay attached stucco house in Tudor-Revival style, built c.1850, located in secluded grounds off Tudor Oaks Road to the east of Holywood. U-shaped on plan with abbreviated gabled return extending from rectangular front block; double height garage to rear. Pitched natural slate roof with blue/black angled ridge tiles; raised stone skews and kneelers. Tall stone chimneystacks, having chamfered stalks to suggest individual flues, with ovolo moulded heavy plinth. Chimneys to rear are rendered with chamfered stalks, simple plinth and tall terracotta pots. 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 (detailed in the elevation description below) in simple chamfered surrounds with chamfered sills. Dormer windows are 1/1 sliding sash. Principal elevation (entrance) faces northeast and comprises two-storey entrance bay offset to left of centre, flanked by two gabled bays (single window wide); that to left is narrower: extreme left bay two windows wide. Porch contains bolection-moulded six-panel door with brass door furniture and is lit from east and north. The southeast elevation is abutted by a three-storey slightly recessed rear wing (creating the U-shaped plan) with 4/4 sash window to first floor: abutted by a projecting double-height smooth rendered modern garage with oculus window above an up-and-over garage door. Exposed section of gable with diminutive 2/2 sash window to second floor. The southwest elevation is abutted by adjoining building (HB 23/20/017A) Northwest elevation comprises central projecting gabled bay and single opening to flanking bays. To left bay, tripartite multi-pane window; to right bay; simple 2/2 sash window (replaced 1941). Gable at ground floor contains multi-lit window and to second floor there is a diminutive 2/2 window. All windows to first floor are 8/8 and dormer windows are 1/1 and 2/2. The house is set on an elevated position looking out towards Belfast lough. Lawned to front and accessed via a graveled drive from Tudor Oaks Road, the house sits in a mature site (which once extended down to the Bangor Road below) and is surrounded by mature boundary trees and hedgerow. Roof: natural slate Walling: render/stucco Windows: timber Rainwater Goods: Cast-iron