32-34 Warren Road, Donaghadee, Co Down, BT21 0PD

A distinctive pair of large three-storey late Victorian semi-detached stucco houses dating from around 1895. The buildings sit on a slight rise on the western side of Warren Road, north of Donaghadee town centre.

Each dwelling is L-shaped in plan, with the three-storey section fronting the street and a rear two-storey return. The two returns are positioned back to back, creating a large single gabled return elevation between them. A single-storey flat-roofed porch stands at the junction of the L-shape.

Both houses are defined by Jacobean gables with curved profiles, two-storey and single-storey canted bays, and mildly classical mouldings to windows and door surrounds. A double string course runs around much of the three-storey section, forming a frieze. The principal elevations feature rustication to the ground floor.

The front elevations display symmetrical fenestration with segmental arch-headed windows framed by moulded surrounds comprising pilasters, archivolts and keystones. Windows rest on string courses. The ground and first-floor bay windows are identical pairs; the second floor has a pair of semicircular-headed windows. The north elevation of the front section contains segmental arch-headed windows at ground and first floors, with the second floor blank.

A tall shared chimney stack with rendered moulded decoration sits at the centre of the rear section ridge. A second smaller chimney stands at the eaves of the north-west side. Between the two gables sits a decorative cast iron rainwater hopper. An original water pump remains attached to the north wall of the return of number 34.

The buildings are entirely rendered, with roofs covered in natural slate and cast iron rainwater goods throughout.

Number 32 mirrors number 34 with the following exceptions: the side single-storey bay and porch south elevation have been re-rendered without rustication; a large modern PVC conservatory has been added to the south side of the main return, with its western glazing overlapping the return's west wall; a French window with a small wrought iron balcony opens from the first floor to the conservatory; a small roundel window sits in the east wall above the front porch; and a recently constructed single-storey return has been added to the west.

Both properties have been substantially altered with PVC window frames throughout and extensions to the rear. Number 32 also features a large PVC conservatory to its rear.

The buildings appear on the Ordnance Survey map of 1901 and are documented in Valuation records of 1908-35 and 1932-56.