16 New Road, Donaghadee, County Down, BT21 0DR

16 New Road is a large, two and a half storey Edwardian free style terrace house, part of a distinctive asymmetric block of three dwellings designed around 1905 by architect James A. Hanna, possibly not built until circa 1907. The terrace was commissioned by Mr. Francis McCormick JP, who made No. 16 his own residence while the other properties were developed speculatively.

The block displays typical Hannaesque characteristics, with a mixture of canted bays, scalloped parapets, half dormer gables and prominent chimneys, all executed in brick, stone and rough cast. No. 12 to the east and the middle property, No. 14, are largely identical traditional plan terrace houses dressed in Edwardian eclecticism. No. 16 at the west end is larger, being double pile in plan, and of more complex, less traditional design. It lacks the decorative scalloped parapet and battered half-dormer of its neighbours, making it somewhat less ornamental in overall appearance.

The terrace is situated on the south side at the east end of New Road, adjacent to Warren Road. The front north elevation is asymmetrical. To the right is a set-back portion (the rear pile), whose north face contains a two storey lean-to projection housing the entrance porch. The front door is panelled and partly glazed with a plain fanlight above. The first floor of the lean-to is blank. The west face of the lean-to has a tall mullioned and transomed casement window to ground floor and a very short casement to first floor.

The north face of the front pile (left side of the front elevation) is gabled. At ground floor it has a large casement window with a similar window to first floor. A mullioned Venetian window sits in the centre of the large attic floor gable. The west face of this pile has a wide casement to the left side at first floor (the right side being abutted by the lean-to), with a similar but narrower window to first floor. To the gable is a large semicircular attic window.

The west face of the rear pile has a totally glazed, canted flat-roofed single storey bay at ground floor. To first floor is a casement window, while to the second floor gable is a similar but narrower window. The south elevation has a large lean-to conservatory to the left at ground floor and to the right a large two storey return, which merges with that of No. 14 to form a large gabled return. To the rear façade of the main house (left of the return), the first floor contains a sash window (2/2) with another directly above at attic level, partly set within a relatively large gable. To the left of these windows is a projecting chimney breast rising through both upper floors, breaking through the eaves to a tall brick chimney stack. To the right side of the west face of the return is a timber and glazed door with sidelight. To the left side of the first floor is a small sash window close to the eaves. The ground floor of the south face of the return is obscured by a recent single storey extension. At first floor is a sash window.

The façade is finished in brick at ground floor level and rough cast to the upper levels, partly covered in creeper growth. The slated roof has a slight overhang with plain barges and exposed rafter ends. Two tall chimney stacks are present—that to the east rendered, that to the south in brick. A Velux window opens to the return.