The Savoy, Donaghadee Road, Bangor, Co Down, BT20 4QR

A detached four-storey multi-bay former hotel in the International style; built to designs by Robert N Savage in 1931, refaced and extended by John McBride Neill in 1933. Located on the corner of Hamilton Road and Donaghadee Road in the centre of Bangor. U-shaped on plan with connecting bays on a north-south axis; single-storey return to rear. Metal sheeted pitched roof to main block and flat roof to porch. uPVC rainwater goods. Walls are painted smooth render with curved corners. Windows are black powder coated aluminium (replaced 1989); to main elevations they are arranged as bands of glazing in groups of four (multi-paned to ground floor). The principal elevation faces north and has a strong horizontal emphasis with continuous moulded bands above and below glazing. The slightly projecting entrance bay is three windows wide and has a strong vertical emphasis; stepped gable with centred SAVOY in large applied lettering. Entrance to ground floor under flat- roof; deeply recessed steel-framed double-leaf automatic doors to centre flanked by full-height windows. The east elevation comprises gables of front and rear blocks, each with single openings to all floors; rear block with additional window to ground floor. Connecting bays with breakthrough arch to left and right creating access to internal courtyards; single opening to all floors with entrance door to ground floor. The south elevation is sixteen windows wide with ramped and stepped access to entrance doors to left and right respectively. To right at ground floor is single-storey return; gable contains modern glazed fire-door; exposed section to east is four windows wide. The west elevation is six windows wide. The exposed section of the rear return is three windows wide. Setting The Savoy is prominently located at the convergence of four roads, on the corner of Hamilton Road and Donaghadee Road. Bounded to road on west, and to neighbouring building at east, by masonry wall and hedgerow: bollards and chains to front. To the rear of the building are free-standing blocks of two-storey apartments, part of the Savoy complex; access at south by tarmacadam driveway. Roof: Metal sheeted Walling: Render Windows: Aluminium RWG: uPVC