137 Whiterock Bay, Killinakin, Killinchy, Co Down, BT23 6QA

Much altered two storey house built in 1936, originally in the International Style, Philip Bell. The property is set on a slight rise on the S side of Whiterock Bay (road) overlooking Strangford Lough, roughly a mile W of Killinchy. This house is roughly square in plan and was originally ‘cubist’ in form with a full height projecting bay to front and lower projecting section at the rear. However, in recent times it has been greatly extended at front and rear with an unsuitable hipped roof section stretching from the front to the W facade, whilst at the rear a large two storey extension has been added with extremely large (almost storey height) windows with timber panels below glazing. There are still some original window openings to the right hand side of the E facade as well as the corner window windows to the front, but all have modern frames made of a variety of materials. The house is now entered via a door at the very left hand edge of the E facade as there is no longer an entrance at what was the front. The original flat roof has been retrained over the main body of the house, as has the rough cast to the facade, however the house is now painted a cream colour more suited to a more traditional dwelling and not one of this kind which would have originally been white. Rendered chimney stack to E. Metal and PVC rw goods. This house was originally one of four built to compliment the adjacent Strangford Lough Yacht Club. However, it and one of its companions (No.141) have been unsympathetically altered and the centrepiece of the yacht club is soon to be demolished.