10 Mount Pleasant, Tennyson Avenue, Bangor, Co Down, BT20 3TB

10 Mount Pleasant is a three-storey, two-bay Victorian end-terrace dwelling built around 1894, one of a terrace of four located on an elevated site off Tennyson Avenue in Bangor, overlooking Belfast Lough and the Marina. It is situated west of Bangor Town Centre in an area that developed as a fashionable resort and commuter town following the opening of the railway in 1865. The land was initially owned by Viscount Bangor and divided into plots sold off in 1877. The terrace was built as a development by Robert Bowman, a butcher and town commissioner, with three houses valued at £28 and number 10 at £25 due to its smaller plot. The houses held group value as part of the broader terrace development and are representative of the larger terrace dwellings that characterised Bangor's later 19th-century expansion.

The building retains its original character and robust detailing. It has a pitched natural slate roof with clay ridge tiles; the projecting bay features a hipped slate roof with leaded hips and a terminating clay finial. Replacement metal rainwater goods include ovolo gutters and circular downpipes. Chimney stacks are rendered with cornice detail and clay pots. The walling is stucco render with a projecting plinth, string course, cill course, quoins and corbelling. The right-hand side ground floor has vermiculated quoins rising to a name plaque inscribed with "Mount Pleasant"; the first floor has a panelled pilaster with rusticated quoins at second-floor level. Windows throughout are timber single-glazed 1/1 sliding sashes with horns.

The principal entrance faces east and is asymmetrically arranged. The front door, located on the left, is timber with four-panel bolection moulding and a fixed light over, with cast-iron ironmongery. It is flanked by panelled pilasters rising to scrolled foliate console brackets that support a dentilled entablature, surmounted by a plain raised pediment panel. A square-headed window above has a swept canopy on console brackets breaking the moulded string course. To the right is a three-storey canted bay with square-headed windows to ground and first floors in moulded surrounds; the second floor has diminished round-arched windows. The left gable is abutted by the adjacent number 9 Mount Pleasant.

The rear elevation has a subservient three-storey single-bay gabled return with lower eaves and ridge level, reduced in depth owing to site boundary constraints. Windows of various sizes are timber sliding sashes throughout. A modern single-storey uPVC-framed glazed infill extension has been added to the re-entrant of the rear facade and return, surmounted by a glazed balcony with brushed steel handrail accessed from first-floor level. The north-facing gable has a single opening to the left side ground floor with symmetrically arranged first and second-floor windows. The gable features a clipped verge and broad chimney stack at the apex, with matching quoins to the left-hand side.

The property occupies an elevated site overlooking Bangor Marina, with a large sloping front garden detached from the house by a gravel car parking area and stepped access to an elevated garden terrace. The rear and side of the site are enclosed by a smooth rendered wall of double-height with a timber-sheeted access gate. The surrounding setting comprises similar stucco-rendered residential terraces and villas from the same period.

The house is shown in photographs dating from around 1914 and 1921 and is very similar in style and execution to Bowman Terrace at Queen's Parade, built around 15 years earlier, likely by James Bowman, a brick manufacturer, suggesting Robert and James Bowman were relatives. The houses were initially let to tenants of the professional and petty-bourgeois class, typically sufficiently well-to-do to keep at least one maidservant. The first recorded occupant was John K Greene in 1894. Later occupants included Annabella McCullough (1901), Agnes White (1908), John S Dudley (1914), Jane Dudley (1921) and Percy B Harris (from 1922 to at least 1930). The house has been recently extended to the rear and modernised internally with the loss of some original features and detailing.