19 Seaview

The Department's description

Exterior description and setting

Left one of a pair of two storey (+ attic) houses, on the N side of Seaview. This house is three bays wide to façade and two bays wide to rear (the other is three bays wide to rear).

Pitched natural slate roof. Three rendered and corbelled chimneystacks – one on left gable is a dummy, one between the middle and right bays and one on the party wall with the adjoining house (HB16/12/016B). Modern small skylight to the left and right bays of front pitch. Wall head dormer to middle bay has a pitched natural slate roof and plain timber bargeboard. A 2/2 sash window to front and a two-paned window to left and right cheeks. Boxed eaves carry moulded metal rainwater goods. Walls are dry dashed with stepped stucco quoins to left end.

House faces southeast to sea. Main entrance is on left bay. Original four-panelled timber door with plainly glazed transom over has a smooth rendered and painted architrave with foliated console brackets supporting a moulded cornice. Aligned above is a 1/1 sliding sash window with a smooth rendered and painted semicircular-headed architrave, with slightly advanced block at spring of arch, infilled spandrel and plain cill.

The middle bay has a two-storey canted bay, which shares eaves level and rainwater goods with main block. Roof is concealed by a moulded cornice and supports the wall-head dormer. Its walls are rendered and painted with common cill course to each floor. One window to each cant, all 1/1 sliding sashes.

The right bay has a semi-elliptical coachway to ground floor with smooth rendered architrave and pair of large t+g sheeted doors. At first floor there are a pair of windows as those to first floor left bay.

Left gable is abutted by 18 Seaview (HB16/12/017F).

Rear elevation is smooth rendered and painted. At ground floor left is a pair of t+g sheeted carriage doors. To their right is a 8/8 sliding sash window with painted granite cill. Each bay of first floor has a 6/6 sliding sash (without horns). Set to attic level of right bay, is a 3x3 paned window.

Abutting right bay is the rear return. It is two storey with pitched natural slate roof and a glazed cat-slide roof (over rear lobby) at join with house. Walls are smooth line rendered and painted. Lobby advances slightly, its exposed right cheek is blank and its left cheek is abuts the main block. Its yard face has a glazed t +g sheeted door with 1x 3 paned window to its right (without cill). Above to first floor is a 3x3 timber window. Return has four openings to ground floor. The third from left is a t+g sheeted door, the rest are 6/6 sliding sashes. First floor has two windows, that to left is a 1/1 margin-paned sash and that to right is a 6/1 sliding sash.

Right gable is abutted by adjoining house (HB16/12/016B).

Setting:

Garden area to front of house enclosed by dwarf wall with hedges. Shares gravel drive with adjoining building (HB16/12/016B).

Historical information

First shown, along with its neighbour (HB16/012/016B), on the 1859 OS map. Noted in the Second Valuation of 1861 as ‘Bayview’; measurements given a 7.75yds x 9.5yds x 2.5 storeys.

Primary sources
1. OS 6” maps, 1859, Co Down sheet 54 (PRONI – OS 6/3/54/2).
2. Second Valuation book, 1861 (PRONI – VAL 2B/3/65B, p.65).

Criteria for listing: architectural interest

A. Style
B. Proportion
C. Ornamentation
D. Plan Form
I. Quality and survival of Interior
J. Setting
K. Group value

Criteria for listing: historic interest

X. Local Interest

Evaluation

One of a pair of good mid 19thC houses set on a prominent sea front location. Little altered, it retains much of its original character.