3 Station Square, Helen's Bay, Bangor, BT19 1TN

A single-storey, two-bay former station master’s house, built c.1863 and situated at the NW corner of Station Square. Aligned E-W with principal elevation facing south towards the station. Pitched natural slate roof with eaves boards along exposed rafter tails and scalloped bargeboard to E gable. Rendered chimney to E gable with two octagonal stacks. Ogee-profile steel gutters and circular metal down pipes. Walls cement-rendered and painted, with vee-jointed stepped quoins. Advanced painted base course to exposed elevations. South elevation is symmetrical, with porch to centre, the roof and walls of which are detailed as main block. Sheeted timber door with band rustication to jambs and fixed leaded lights to cheeks. Each flanking bay has a square-headed opening with 2/2 sliding sash window with stepped and vee-jointed jambs, and painted cill. The station yard abuts the left end of this elevation. Hedge to front. The west gable is entirely abutted by a one-and-a-half-storey modern addition to the house, of no interest. The north elevation is abutted by a separate modern house and contiguous tall blank wall. The east gable has a 2/2 sliding sash window in a plain square-headed opening. A timber trellis has been erected in front of gable. Setting: Located off Station Square in Helen's Bay close to the Clandeboye Avenue to the north of the listed railway station (HB23/15/039A) and station platforms (HB23/15/039B) and east of the associated coach yard (HB23/15/039E) and railway bridge (HB23/15/039D). To the north is the related road bridge (HB23/15/039F). Roof: Natural slate Walling: Render Windows: Timber RWG: Metal