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

9 Mount Pleasant is a three-storey two-bay Victorian mid-terrace dwelling built around 1894, one of a terrace of four. It is located off Tennyson Avenue overlooking Belfast Lough and Bangor Marina on an elevated site that was formerly open fields until developed towards the end of the nineteenth century following the opening of the railway in 1865.

The house was built as part of a development by Robert Bowman, a butcher and town commissioner, who appears to have been related to James Bowman, a brick manufacturer responsible for nearby Bowman Terrace on Queen's Parade. When new, the four houses were valued at £28 each, except number 10 which occupied a smaller plot and was valued at £25. The houses were let to tenants of professional and petty-bourgeois standing, typically maintained by at least one domestic servant.

The architectural character and robust detailing of the original scheme remain largely intact. The pitched natural slate roof has clay ridge tiles; the hipped slate roof over the projecting bay features leaded hips and a terminating clay finial. Chimney-stacks are rendered with cornice detail and clay pots. The walling is stucco render with projecting plinth, string, cill course and corbelling. Windows throughout are timber single-glazed 1/1 sliding sash with horns.

The principal entrance faces east and is asymmetrically arranged. The front door is a timber four-panel bolection moulded door with fixed light over and brass ironmongery, flanked by panelled pilasters rising to scrolled foliate console brackets supporting a dentilled entablature. Above is a plain raised pediment panel with a square-headed window topped by a swept canopy on console brackets breaking the moulded string. A three-storey canted bay projects to the right, with square-headed windows to ground and first floor with moulded surrounds, and diminished round arched windows to second floor. The left gable is abutted by 8 Mount Pleasant, and the right gable by 10 Mount Pleasant. A subservient three-storey single-bay gabled return with lower eaves and ridge level abuts the rear elevation. Various sized timber sliding sash windows are distributed throughout the rear elevation. Around 2010, the ground floor level window was altered to a doorway with additional openings to accommodate a single-storey timber-framed glazed extension projecting into the yard.

The house is recognised for its size and construction as a "first class" dwelling, originally containing thirteen rooms. Early occupants included Mrs Martin from 1894, Sarah Blair (an American-born spinster) in 1901, and Katherine Dill from 1906. The Dill sisters remained until 1927, after which the property passed to Violet Faulkner. The house continues in use as a domestic dwelling.

The setting is elevated 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 is enclosed by a continuous rubble masonry wall with a timber sheeted access gate. The general setting is surrounded by similar stucco-rendered residential terraces and villas from the same period. The building has group value with the other terrace buildings and is a good example of the larger terrace dwellings that formed part of Bangor's development in the later nineteenth century.