Historic Building Details

HB Ref No:
HB23/05/007 C

Address :
86 Hamilton Road Bangor County Down BT20 4LG

Townland:
Corporation

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Survey 2:
B2

Date of Listing:
20/06/1986 00:00:00

Date of De-listing:

Current Use:
House - Terrace

Former Use
Hospital Building

Conservation Area:
No

Industrial Archaeology:
No

Vernacular:
No

Thatched:
No

Monument:
No

Derelict:
No

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OS Map No:
115/12

IG Ref:
J5098 8176

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Owner Category

Private

Exterior Description And Setting

A single-bay two-storey end-terrace cottage, built c.1869 as a cottage hospital and converted into three dwellings in 1912, located to the south of Hamilton Road, Bangor. Square-on-plan with projecting porch and single-storey return to south. Pitched natural slate roof with terracotta ridge tiles and overhanging sheeted eaves. Tall rectangular brick and render chimneystacks with six decorative terracotta pots. Plastic rainwater goods throughout. Walling is Flemish bonded red brick with cement quoins and plinth. Windows are paired 1/1 timber sliding sash with horns having sandstone sills and hood mouldings. The principal elevation faces north-east and is symmetrically arranged with two window openings to ground floor and a central projecting porch. Porch comprises round-headed timber door with cast-iron door furniture in chamfered brick reveal having flat brick lintel; lit to north and south by slender round-headed windows. South-east (rear) elevation has a window opening to first and ground floor and a modern window and timber door to exposed section of rear return. South-west elevation is abutted by adjoining building; HB23/05/007B. North-west elevation has single opening to first and ground floor. Setting The terrace is situated to the north entrance of Ward Park beside the Carnegie library (HB23/05/006) and is set back slightly from the road; paved to front and north-east enclosed by fencing and hedgerow. Enclosed to rear by masonry and brick wall. Roof: Natural slate Walling: Brick Windows: Timber RWG: uPVC

Architects

Not Known

Historical Information

This terrace of three dwellings started life as Bangor Cottage Hospital, dated by Patton to 1869 (Patton, p.96), although he provides no supporting evidence. The building first appears in valuation records in 1881 when it is listed as a ‘Hospital’ but mistakenly not given a valuation. However, it seems that the hospital was first established in 1869 by Harriet Ward, and escaped the attention of the valuers for some years. It was closed on the opening of the Castle Street hospital in 1910. (Patton, p.96) The 1885-6 Medical Annual and Practitioners’ Index states that Bangor Cottage Hospital has 6 beds and admission is by payment of 5s weekly. It is first shown on the third edition Ordnance Survey map of 1901 captioned ‘Cottage Hospital & Home’ and in 1909 is described in the valuation records as ‘Bangor Cottage Hospital’. However, by 1912, the hospital had been converted into three dwellings, all valued at £7 and leased from Bangor Urban District Council. In 1912 the house is occupied by Arthur Shepherd and then Joseph Brown (1914) and Thomas Wallace (1920). According to a newspaper advertisement of June 1985 the houses had been let in the past to Council employees on Service Tenancies. References: Primary Sources 1.PRONI OS/6/3/2/3 – Third Edition OS Map 1901 2.PRONI OS/6/3/2/4 – Fourth Edition OS Map 1919-26 3.PRONI OS/6/3/2/5 – Fifth Edition OS Map 1939 4.PRONI VAL/12/B/23/7A-K – Annual Revisions (1866-99) 5.PRONI VAL/12/B/23/9A-S – Annual Revisions (1900-1930) 6.PRONI VAL/12/E/129/1 – Annual Revisions Town Plans (c.1864-1899) 7.PRONI VAL/12/E/129/2 – Annual Revisions Town Plans (1898-c.1916) 8.Medical Annual and Practitioners’ Index 1885-6 Secondary Sources 1.Newspaper advertisement of June 1985, available in NIEA file HB23/05/007C 2.Patton, M, “Bangor, An Historical Gazetteer” Belfast: Ulster Architectural Heritage Society, 1999

Criteria for Listing

Architectural Interest

A. Style B. Proportion C. Ornamentation D. Plan Form J. Setting K. Group value

Historic Interest

X. Local Interest Y. Social, Cultural or Economic Importance

Evaluation

A single-bay, two-storey, terraced, brick, cottage, built c.1869. Part of a group that was formerly a cottage hospital established by Harriet Ward, it was converted to cottages in 1912 by Bangor Urban District Council. The detailing is largely intact albeit rather plain reflecting the original use as a cottage hospital. Although much of the interior has been modernised, as a whole the group represents a type that is becoming rare. Its social and historic interest as a former cottage hospital established by the Ward family is of note, as is its conversion to council housing.

General Comments

Please note this record has been renumbered it was previously recorded as HB23/05/007

Date of Survey

15 June 2010