26-30 Victoria Avenue, Newtownards, Co Down, BT23 3ED

Terrace of three unexceptional three-storey houses built around the 1890s on the west side of Victoria Avenue in Newtownards. Victoria Avenue itself was laid out in 1887 to commemorate Queen Victoria's golden jubilee, though it was originally intended to be called Railway Avenue. By 1891 the houses were being erected faster than anticipated, and this section of terrace, being closer to the north end of the street and further from the town centre, may have been among the later portions to be built.

No. 26 is largely original both inside and out. The front facade of lined render and paint features a doorway to the left, surrounded by panelled pilasters with decorative brackets and a cornice, with a timber panelled door and plain fanlight. To the left are twinned sash windows with horizontal astragals and moulded surrounds, their cills set on brackets. Above these on the first floor are similar twinned windows with segmental arch heads, accompanied by a single similar window to the right. The facade is topped with a gabled half-dormer with decorative barge boards and finial, containing a semicircular headed sash window with matching surround and bracketed cill course. The rear is a two-storey gabled return with various window and door openings, finished in unpainted cement render. A large mullioned and transomed window to the ground floor (apparently enlarged) and a first-floor sash window are notable to the rear of the main building. The roof is covered in Bangor blue slates with two yellow brick chimney stacks (a similar stack serves the return). A small cast iron skylight and cast iron rainwater goods are present at the rear.

No. 28 is similar to No. 26 but has been significantly altered. It features modern PVC doors and windows, rear extensions to the return, and a flat-roofed dormer to both front and rear (the front one replacing the original gabled dormer). Sections of PVC rainwater goods are fitted, and the return chimney stack has been removed.

No. 30 is similar to No. 26 but has modern window frames throughout and a Velux window to the rear. The return has an enlarged window, and the return chimney stack has been removed. Unlike No. 26, the ground-floor rear window has retained its original opening.

The front facade of the terrace remains largely intact, though both Nos. 28 and 30 sport modern window frames, and No. 28 has lost its gabled half-dormer.