Historic Building Details

HB Ref No:
HB23/14/002 D

Address :
10 Mount Pleasant Tennyson Avenue Bangor Co Down BT20 3TB

Townland:
Corporation

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Survey 2:
B2

Date of Listing:
27/01/1975 00:00:00

Date of De-listing:

Current Use:
House - Terrace

Former Use
House - Terrace

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:
J5008 8195

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Owner Category

Private

Exterior Description And Setting

A three-storey two-bay end of terrace Victorian dwelling, one of a terrace of four, built c.1894. Located off Tennyson Avenue, off Princetown Road in Bangor West overlooking Belfast Lough; west of Bangor Town Centre. Pitched natural slate roof with clay ridge tiles; hipped slate roof over projecting bay, leaded hips and terminating clay finial. Replacement metal rainwater goods with ovolo gutters and circular downpipes. Chimney-stacks render with cornice detail and clay pots. Walling stucco render with projecting plinth, string, cill course, quoins and corbelling. Vermiculated quoins on right hand side ground floor rising to name plaque inscribed with “Mount Pleasant”; first floor panelled pilaster with rusticated quoins at second floor level. Timber single-glazed 1/1 sliding sash with horns. Principal entrance door; timber four-panel bolection moulded; fixed light over; cast-iron ironmongery. The principal entrance faces east and is asymmetrically arranged. Front door located on the left; flanked by panelled pilasters, rising to scrolled foliate console brackets, supporting dentilled entablature; surmounted by plain raised pediment panel; square-headed window above with swept canopy on console brackets breaking moulded string. Three-storey canted bay to the right; square-headed windows to ground and first floor; moulded surrounds. Diminished round arched windows to second floor. Left gable abutted by 9 Mount Pleasant (HB23/14/002C). The rear elevation is abutted by subservient three-storey single-bay gabled return with lower eaves and ridge level. Reduced in depth owning to site boundary. Various sized timber sliding sash windows throughout; modern single-storey uPVC framed, glazed infill extension to re-entrant of rear facade and return, surmounted by glazed balcony with brushed steel handrail accessed from first floor level. North facing gable; single opening to left side ground floor with symmetrically arranged first and second floor windows. Clipped verge and broad chimney stack to gable apex. Matching quoins to left hand side. Setting Elevated site overlooking Bangor Marina. Large sloping front garden detached from house by gravel car parking area; stepped access to elevated garden terrace. The rear and side of the site is enclosed by a smooth rendered wall rising double height, with timber sheeted access gate. General
setting; surrounded by similar stucco rendered residential terraces and villas from the same period. Roofing: Natural slate Walling: Stucco render Window: Timber RWG: Cast-aluminium/uPVC

Architects

Not Known

Historical Information

This area of Bangor began to be developed towards the end of the nineteenth century as the town expanded into a fashionable resort and commuter town following the opening of the railway in 1865. The area is shown as empty fields on the second edition ordnance survey map of 1858 but by the third edition of 1901, Princetown Road has been laid out in terraces and villas as far as the promontory, Wilson’s Point. The land on which this terrace is built was initially owned by Viscount Bangor and was divided into plots and sold off by him in 1877. In 1894 the current terrace enters valuation records as a development by Robert Bowman, of four houses with yards and small gardens. Three of the houses are valued at £28 and the fourth, number 10, which occupies a slightly smaller plot, at £25. The four houses are shown in photographs dating from c1914 and c1921 (Crosbie, p.27 and 28) and are very similar in style and execution to ‘Bowman Terrace’, part of Queen’s Parade (HB23/07/011 C-J). Bowman Terrace had been built around 15 years previously by James Bowman, brick manufacturer and it seems likely that Robert and James Bowman were relatives. Bowman is listed in the 1880 street directory as a butcher of Main Street, Bangor and also as one of the town’s commissioners. (Belfast and Ulster Street Directory) The houses were let to tenants of the professional and petty-bourgeois class, who were usually sufficiently well-to-do to keep at least one maidservant. (1901, 1911 census) The first occupant to be noted in number is John K Greene in 1894. Annabella McCullough followed in 1901, although the house was empty at the time of the 1901 census. Agnes White was the tenant in 1908 and at about this time the rent was noted to be £34 plus taxes, slightly less than the other houses in the terrace due to the slightly smaller size of this property. Due to the shape of the plot in which it was built, this house had a shorter return and less yard space. The house was again vacant at the time of the 1911 census but in 1914 John S Dudley is the occupier followed by Jane Dudley in 1921. Percy B Harris lived in the house from 1922 until at least 1930. (Annual Revisions, 1901, 1911 census) The house has recently (2007) been extended to the rear and modernised internally with the loss of some original features and detailing. 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.Lawrence collection – image 11217 9.W A Green collection – images 348, 3104 10.Belfast and Ulster Street Directory, 1880 11.1901 census online 12.1911 census online Secondary Sources 1.Crosbie, Jane E.M. “A Tour of North Down 1895-1925, Historic Photographs from the W.A. Green Collection at the Ulster Folk and Transport Museum” Belfast: Friar’s Bush Press, 1989

Criteria for Listing

Architectural Interest

A. Style B. Proportion C. Ornamentation D. Plan Form H-. Alterations detracting from building J. Setting K. Group value

Historic Interest

X. Local Interest

Evaluation

A three-storey two-bay Victorian end-terrace dwelling, one of a terrace of four, built c.1894 now forming part of the larger terrace located on an elevated site overlooking the Bangor promenade. Its original character and robust detailing survive. It has group value with the other terrace buildings (HB23/14/002A-C) and is a good example of the type of larger terrace dwellings that formed part of the development of Bangor in the later 19th century after the arrival of the railway.

General Comments

This record was previoulsy recorded as HB23/14/002

Date of Survey

22 September 2010