Princetown Villa, 66 Princetown Road, Bangor, Co Down, BT20 3DT

A three-bay two-storey with attic stucco house, built c.1900 to designs by JC McCandliss, situated to the east of Princetown Road overlooking Bangor bay. Square on plan with two-storey canted bays to front and south. Pitched natural slate roof with terracotta ridge tiles and finials; painted rendered chimney stacks having clay pots; decorative barge board to gables. Cast-iron ogee rainwater goods on decorative corbelled eaves. Walling is painted render with vermiculated quoins; cornice decorated with stars; moulded string course between floors. Windows are segmental-headed (unless otherwise stated) and infilled with concrete blocks; canted bays with moulded surround having keyblock. The principal elevation faces north-east and is three openings wide. Two-storey canted bays with balustraded and dentilled parapets. Portico to centre having squared Doric columns and plain entablature; to first floor is single window opening surmounted by stucco panel having ivy leaf design. The south-east elevation has two-storey canted bay to left (as described in main elevation) with square-headed windows; two windows to attic floor; single window to right at ground and first floor. The south-west elevation is blank. The north-west elevation is partially concealed; two window to attic and two square-headed windows to first floor. Setting The house is sea-facing positioned on a raised site overlooking Bangor Marina, accessed by a lane to the east of Princetown Road; stone boundary wall to east. Roof: Natural slate Walling: Render Windows: Infilled RWG: Cast-iron