32 Maxwell Road, Bangor, Co Down, BT20 3SG

An asymmetrical multi-bay two-storey with attic Edwardian house, loosely in the Arts and Crafts style, built c.1910 to designs by Ernest L. Woods for himself, located on the west side of Maxwell Road to the west of Bangor town centre. Irregular on plan with projecting full-height gabled bays and double-height stairwell bay to front; double garage to north. Hipped and gabled rosemary tiled roof with tall roughcast rendered chimneystacks having terracotta pots; exposed rafter ends. Cast-iron ogee rainwater goods (replacement). Walling is roughcast render with plinth; sandstone kneelers to gable. Windows are timber and uPVC double side hung casement replacements with painted masonry projecting sills; original leaded and stained glass windows to entrance bay. The principal elevation faces east and is generally two storey, asymmetrically arranged with irregular fenestration. Roughly to centre is a catslide stairwell flanked by two projecting bays; that to left has sandstone coping and kneeler stones to gable; right side contains oval-headed entrance in moulded ashlar surround with hood mould, flanked by dwarf buttresses and with two narrow stained glass windows to left side; the door is original panelled timber with replacement oval stained glass panel and brass door furniture, accessed by a curved granite step. There is a single window to first floor. The right projection is hipped and has a gablet ornamented with decorative bargeboards and a cartouche; it has plain buttresses without offsets and a window to each floor. The stairwell is lit by a stained glass window with lintel below eaves; end bays are plainly detailed; the eaves height is lower to right bay. There is a dormer offset to left, lighting attic. The south elevation has projecting chimneybreast to centre; rising from a single-storey projecting hipped bay having two diminutive windows. Single window to right at first floor; slender window to right at ground floor. The west (rear) elevation is symmetrically arranged with three windows to first floor; ground floor with double-leaf glazed doors with sidelights to left; two large multi-paned windows to right. Gabled dormer to centre of roof. To far left is double-height bay with modern double-leaf glazed doors. The north elevation has three slender windows to first floor and a single slender window to ground floor; abutted to right by single-storey double garage. Setting Located to the west side of Maxwell Road in a largely suburban area of Bangor; built during the time of the town’s extension during late 19th and early 20th century. Paved parking area to front of house; landscaped garden to rear enclosed by mature hedgerow. Roof: Rosemary tiles Walling: Roughcast Windows: Timber RWG: Cast-iron