5 Waverley Drive, Bangor, Co Down, BT20 5LD

A 1 ½ storey two-bay attached Victorian dwelling built c1890. Square plan with long return to the rear. Located in the suburban Ballyholme Ward, east of Bangor town centre and south of the Esplanade. Natural slate pitched roof with clay ridge tile with skew table; decorative barge boards to dormers with finials. Cast-iron ogee moulded guttering with replacement uPVC circular downpipes; smooth render chimney with tall hexagonal clay pots. Ruled-and-lined rendered walling; channelled rusticated quoins; projected plinth and corbel course. Timber sliding sash windows with deep stone cills; round-arched 2/2 sliding sash windows to first floor level. Four-panel bolection moulded timber front door; brass ironmongery and round-arched fixed light over; embraced by plain surrounds with stucco moulded plinth blocks and cornice course; central chamfered key-block. The principal elevation faces west and is asymmetrical with the front door located on the right hand side and a plain single-storey canted bay on the right; single continuous cill course around bay. Paired wall-headed dormers at first floor level; finial over left dormer only. The left gable has a single window opening to the left hand side of the ground floor and a single replacement window opening to the right hand side at first floor. The broad chimney-stack rises from the gable apex. The rear elevation has a single ground floor window and wall-head dormer window (with no barge-boards) to the right bay. The left bay is abutted by a two-storey gabled return. The return has various sized window openings, several of which have been replaced with single-glazed timber casement. The return has a further two-storey addition to the gable end (date unknown) with further single-storey flat-roofed timber enclosure. The right gable is abutted by adjoining building 7 Waverley Drive (HB23/03/016B). Setting The site is bounded at the front by a rendered wall with concrete coping; timber gated access flanked by robust squared piers with pyramidal caps. The north side of the site is bounded by a rubble masonry wall; partially low level with smooth render coping with higher level enclosing the rear yard. The rear of the site is over looked by a two-storey dwelling built c.1930, located in what was formerly the rear garden; beyond which lies the former associated stables (now converted). The grounds to the front and side are principally gravelled and landscaped. The rear yard is accessed via a timber ledge-and-brace gate. The general setting is two/three storey detached, semi-detached and apartment dwellings of various ages and styles. Roofing: Natural slate Walling: Render Windows: Timber RWG: Cast-iron/uPVC