5 Bannview Terrace, Gilford, CRAIGAVON, County Down, BT63 6HX

5 Bannview Terrace is a two-storey four-bay end-of-terrace house built circa 1980, located directly on Dunbar Street northwest of the centre of Gilford. It forms part of a modern terrace of four houses that replicates a former terrace block from circa 1865. As a modern structure, it is of no historic interest.

The current house was rebuilt circa 1980 but replaced a former mill worker's dwelling that had been situated in a terrace of eight houses. The original terrace was built between 1864 and 1868, constructed in phases from north to south, with the earliest houses dating from circa 1865 and the final houses added by 1868. The terrace first appears on the third edition Ordnance Survey map of 1901–1902.

Gilford experienced extremely rapid growth in population following the opening of the Dunbar McMaster spinning mill in the late 1830s. Between 1841 and 1851, the population more than quadrupled, from 643 to 2,814. By 1870, the mill was employing over 2,000 workers and had built 200 houses between 1836 and 1862. Although the current houses were not built by Dunbar McMaster and Company, they formed part of the town's expansion in the wake of the success of the linen industry and were often inhabited by mill workers over the years.

In the original valuation records, the houses were valued at £4 10s, except for the dwelling over the gateway, which being smaller was valued at £2 5s. The two houses at the end of the row, completed in 1868, entered valuation records that year. The larger was occupied by James Craig and the smaller was vacant. In the 1901 census, the larger house appears to have been the residence of Robert Kirk, a flax dresser, who was living with his wife and three young children. The houses were vacant in the 1911 census but by 1919 had been combined for valuation purposes and valued at £4, with a weekly rent of 3 shillings. Thomas Cunningham, a flax rougher and head of a large family, became the tenant. James McKeown took over the house in 1926 and remained resident until at least 1935. The terrace was rebuilt by the Housing Executive circa 1980.