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

6 Bannview Terrace is a two-storey, four-bay end-of-terrace house built around 1980. It forms part of a modern terrace of four houses that replicates the layout and form of an earlier terrace dating from around 1865. The house is located directly on Dunbar Street, northwest of Gilford town centre.

The current dwelling was rebuilt by the Housing Executive around 1980 but occupies the site of a former mill worker's cottage that originally stood as part of a terrace of eight houses. Gilford experienced rapid population growth 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 employed over 2,000 workers and had constructed 200 houses between 1836 and 1862. While this particular terrace was not built by Dunbar McMaster & Company, the houses nevertheless formed part of the town's expansion driven by the success of the linen industry and were frequently inhabited by mill workers.

The original terrace was constructed between 1864 and 1868, first appearing on the third edition Ordnance Survey map of 1901–2. The houses were built progressively from north to south, with the earliest dating from around 1865 and construction completed by 1868. Most dwellings were valued at £4 10 shillings, except for a smaller dwelling over a gateway, valued at £2 5 shillings. Occupants recorded in census returns and property valuations included John Brooks, Russell Simpson, William Little, Sarah McKee, William McKee, Robert Thompson, James Cummins, Alexander McKeown, and Rachel Kirk. Cummins worked as a bleacher; McKeown was a thread finisher. The 1911 census recorded Rachel Kirk, a widow with seven children, occupying one house with a lodger; her older children worked as a yarn cager and doffer in the mill at ages 12 and 14. By 1920, Mary J Curran and Alexander McKeown were tenants, remaining so until at least 1935. The original terrace was demolished and rebuilt around 1980.