45 Craigdarragh Road, Helens Bay, Co Down, BT19 1UB

A large two-storey multi-bay attached house built c.1880 on the site of a mill complex, located off a private road to the north of Craigdarragh Road, Helens Bay. Rectangular on plan with two-storey canted bays and single-storey entrance bay to front; two-storey rectangular bay and two-storey return to rear. Pitched natural slate roof with terracotta ridge tiles and hipped roof over canted bay. Chimneys are painted render stacks with clay pots. Cast-iron ogee rainwater goods on cavetto moulded eaves cornice. Walling is painted smooth render with plinth; cavetto moulded cornice; ‘box’ panel moulding between floors on canted bay and at entrance bay; continuous bead moulded course to top of first floor windows. Windows are 1/1 timber-framed sliding sash with moulded surrounds and continuous cills (unless otherwise stated). The principal entrance elevation faces SE and is seven openings wide. To either end are two-storey canted bays each having replacement timber double-leaf glazed doors with transom light to ground floor. To centre is single-storey projecting entrance porch with glazing to cheeks, accessed by single concrete slab step; door is six-panelled double-leaf having brass door furniture and transom light in moulded surround. The SW elevation is blank. The NE rear elevation has modern timber glazed double-leaf doors to right at first floor, and two windows to left; below this at ground floor are two slender window openings. To left is two-storey projecting bay with blind apertures and window to first floor; modern double-leaf door and window to ground floor; to right is single-storey abutment containing window. Rear return abuts the projecting bay to left; gable is blank; exposed section to right has modern oriel window to ground floor and two replacement windows to first floor. The NE elevation is abutted by adjoining building; HB23/16/018B. Setting The house has a large garden to front, enclosed by rubble-stone wall with entrance to east. Access lane to north is lined with brick outbuildings. Car-parking to rear. Roof: natural slate Walling: render Windows: timber RWG: cast-iron