11 Bangor Road, Holywood, Co Down, BT18 0NU

11 Bangor Road, Holywood, Co Down

A two-storey mid-19th century house, one of a pair of semi-detached villas with rendered walls and hipped roofs. The main entrance faces north while the principal elevation of the block faces west.

The west elevation is three windows wide. The roof is hipped and covered with Bangor blue slates in regular courses with dark-toned ridge tiles. The wall is smooth rendered, lined and blocked to the first floor, with a slightly raised smooth frieze and a raised platband at cill level. The ground floor features channelled rustication with a projecting plinth. Oversailing eaves with white painted timber soffit are supported on shaped timber brackets. Moulded cast iron guttering with one downpipe—part PVC and part cast iron—sits at the right-hand extremity, shared with the adjoining house. One chimney with smooth render and a corbelled cornice carries five original octagonal stoneware pots. A gabled dormer with plain timber pilasters frames a semi-circular arched three-pane timber side-hung casement window, surmounted by an open pediment with moulded timber barges and plain cheeks. The dormer roof is slated to match the main roof. Windows are rectangular timber vertically hung sliding sash, 1 over 1 with horns, set in raised moulded render surrounds with projecting sandstone cills (some later rendered portions).

The north elevation is four-bay. The roof, walls, and guttering match the west elevation, with two modern flush rooflights. To the left of the main chimney is a smaller chimney with smooth render and a block cornice, carrying one original pot and one modern terracotta pot. Windows are similar to the west elevation except those at each end of the first floor and the two to the left at ground floor, which lack horns. The main entrance occupies the second bay from the right. It comprises an elliptically arched opening with panelled archivolt, keystone, and panelled pilasters. The recessed doorway contains an original rectangular timber panelled door and plain sidelights set between triple columned mullions, surmounted by a plain fanlight. A sandstone doorstep has red tiles.

Projecting at the left-hand extremity of the north elevation is a screen wall to the coachyard, rendered smooth with lining and blocking, with a crenellated top. It contains a large elliptical archway with a raised, panelled surround and rectangular timber frame inset. A pair of iron gates, not original, hangs from this opening. The rear face of the screen wall is roughcast rendered.

The east elevation comprises a main rear wall to the left with a deep projecting return to the right, with slated roofs as before and a flush rooflight in the block to the left. The wall to the left is rendered with pebble dash finish except for smooth render, lined and blocked, to a projecting bay in the left-hand corner. PVC gutters and downpipe are present. One window—a rectangular timber sliding sash, 6 over 6 without horns, set in plain reveals with a recessed cill—is positioned here. The side wall of the later projecting bay contains a coupled timber side-hung casement window. The ground floor has a later lean-to projection with synthetic slates on the roof; the wall is roughcast with smooth render patching, PVC gutter and downpipe, and cast iron downpipe. Two windows are present: a rectangular timber sliding sash (6 over 1 without horns) to the right, and to the left an altered window now forming a three-pane fixed light. The return to the east elevation has a hipped roof with a modern flush rooflight, rendered walls with pebble dash finish and painted ground floor, PVC gutter and soil pipe, and cast iron soil pipe. One first-floor window contains an air expeller. The ground floor has one window—a rectangular timber sliding sash, 1 over 1 without horns, with plain reveals and a projecting damaged concrete cill—and a rectangular timber glazed and panelled door.

The south elevation is pebble dashed and painted to the ground floor, with PVC downpipe and part cast iron downpipe, and cast iron soil pipe. One modern rectangular timber fixed light with top-hung vent is at first-floor level. The ground floor has one rectangular timber sliding sash, 1 over 1 without horns, with plain reveals and a projecting concrete cill.

The rear yard has stone pavings with smooth rendered and dry-dashed areas. The party wall of the yard on the south side is roughcast rendered with a modern timber fascia to the flat-roofed adjacent property. Outbuildings to the rear are of no architectural interest: single-storey with lofts, roughcast walls, and doors either missing or of ledged timber construction. The coachyard is surfaced with gravel and has a small grassy garden in the corner.

The building stands well set back from the main road within its own grounds, approached by a winding driveway. An extensive front garden contains lawns, shrubs, and mature trees. The main entrance gateway is shared with the adjoining property and comprises a pair of circular rendered, dashed and painted gate piers with octagonal bases and octagonal sandstone caps (gates missing), curving concave screen walls rendered as the piers with sandstone copings, and square end piers similarly treated with concrete caps. The front boundary wall is rendered with concrete coping.