Ulster Bank, 75 Main Street, Bangor, Co Down, BT20 5AF

A three-storey with attic three-bay semi-detached red-brick bank, dated 1920, built to designs by James A. Hanna; located to the east of Main Street in the centre of Bangor. Rectangular on plan with modern two-storey extension to rear (of no interest). Pitched natural slate roof. Cast-iron ogee rainwater goods on projecting dentilled eaves. Walling is Flemish bonded red-brick with ruled-and-lined stucco to ground floor. String courses between ground and first floor. Windows are 6/1 sliding sash in deep reveals with stucco surrounds having corniced frieze and projecting painted masonry sills. The principal elevation faces west and is four windows wide to first floor; second floor with windows to entrance bay only. Breakfront entrance bay with central pediment and cornice ornamented with shallow medallions on simple pilasters decorated with wreaths. Double-leaf, raised-and-fielded three-panelled timber door, surmounted by a segmental pediment (breaking string course); lions with folded paws form corbels to the pediment; Ulster Bank’s coat of arms over door; ULSTER BANK LIMITED in moulded lettering to entrance bay. The north elevation is abutted to first floor by neighbouring building; exposed section blank and cement rendered. The east elevation is abutted by modern extension, of no interest; exposed section blank and cement rendered. The south elevation has four openings to ground floor and two centrally placed openings to first and second floor; two diminutive windows to gablet in pedimented band-rusticated stucco surround; volutes to either side of gablet. Pilasters with wreaths frame central bay as at main elevation; decorated balcony at first floor, supported on green man corbels with central gryphon; cartouche to centre of balustrade with date- ‘1920’. Setting The bank is situated in a prominent position on the east side of Main Street in Bangor town centre to the north of the listed Northern Bank (HB23/05/001) . Roof: Natural Slate Walling: Brick Windows: Timber RWG: Cast-iron