4 Mourne View Terrace, Banbridge, Co Down, BT32 3HJ

A two-bay two-storey-with-attic Victorian mid-terrace house built around 1890. The building is located on an elevated site on the west side of Newry Road, south of Banbridge town centre, forming part of a terrace of five similarly well-preserved dwellings with architectural detailing largely intact.

The house has a rectangular plan with a two-storey canted bay rising to a canted dormer and a two-storey return to the rear. The pitched roof is natural slate with blue and black angled ridge tiles; the attic dormer has a hipped roof with leaded ridges and hips. A rendered chimneystack with moulded caps and clay pots rises from the roof. Cast-iron ogee rainwater goods are set on a dentilled eaves course.

The walling is painted smooth render with a dentilled moulded string course above the ground floor canted bay window. Windows include round-arched 1/1 timber sliding sash to the dormer and 1/1 timber sliding sash to the ground floor, with camber-arched uPVC replacements to the first floor and continuous sills to the canted bay. The principal elevation faces east, with the two-storey canted bay window to the left featuring windows to each face on each floor (square-headed to ground floor, camber-arched to first floor, and round-arched to dormer). To the right are first and ground floor windows. At ground floor is a replacement panelled-and-glazed timber door with an elliptical overlight surmounted by a hood mould with carved foliate stops.

The terrace was built in two phases: two houses were completed and inhabited by 1879, with a further three added in 1890 by local developer John Gordon. Originally named Mourne Terrace, it became known as Mourne View from the 1920s onwards. The house represents proportions and detailing typical of late-Victorian terrace architecture, though it is a relatively late example and not among the best of its type.

The property is set back from the street with a small front garden in shrubs enclosed by a smooth rendered wall. The front path is laid with original terracotta and black square tiles. The south and north elevations are abutted by adjoining buildings, and the west (rear) elevation was not viewed.