16 New Road

The Department's description

Exterior description and setting

Large, two and a half storey Edwardian free style terrace house; part of a distinctive asymmetric block of c.1905 by James A. Hanna containing three dwellings sporting a typical Hannaesque mixture of canted bays with scalloped parapets, half dormer gables and prominent chimneys and all executed in a mixture of brick, stone and rough cast. No.12 forms the east end of the terrace and is largely identical to the middle property, no.14, with both ultimately tradition plan terrace houses dressed in a façade of Edwardian electicism. This property, no.16, to the west end, is larger (double pile) and of more complex, less traditional design, but lacking the decorative scalloped parapet and battered half-dormer, it is somewhat less decorative than its neighbours. The terrace is sited at the S side (E end) of New Road adjacent to Warren Road.

The front (N) elevation is asymmetrical. To right is a ‘set back’ portion (actually the rear ‘pile’). The N face of this has a two storey lean-to projection which houses the entrance porch. The front door is panelled and partly glazed with a plain fanlight over. The first floor of the lean-to is blank. The W face of the lean-to has a tall (mullioned and transomed) casement window to the ground floor and a very short casement to first floor.

The N face of the front ‘pile’ (to the left side of the front elevation) is gabled. To ground floor it has a large casement window with a similar window to the first floor. A mullioned ‘Venetian’ window sits in the centre of the large attic floor gable. The W face of this ‘pile’ has a wide casement to the left side to first floor, (the right side is abutted by the abovementioned lean-to), with a similar but narrower window to the first floor. To the gable is a large semicircular attic window.

The W face of the rear ‘pile’ has a totally glazed, canted flat roofed single storey bay to the ground floor. To the first floor is a casement window while to the second floor gable is a similar but narrower window.

To the left on the ground floor of the S elevation is a large lean-to conservatory. To the right is a large two storey return (which merges with that of no.14 to form a large gabled return. To the first floor of the rear façade of main house (to left of the return) there is a sash window (2/2) to the first floor with another directly above to attiac level (partly set within a relatively large gable). To the right left of these windows there is a projecting chimney breast which rises through both upper floors, breaking through the eaves to a tall brick chimney stack.

To the right side of the W face of the return is a timber and glazed door with sidelight. To the left side of the first floor is a small sash window (close to the eaves. The ground floor of the S face of the return is obscured by a recent single storey extension. To the first floor is a sash window.

The façade is finished in brick at ground floor level and rough cast to the upper levels (and partly covered in creeper growth). The slated roof has a slight overhang with plain barges and exposed rafter ends. Two tall chimney stacks, that to E rendered, that to S in brick. Velux window to return.

Historical information

The terrace was designed in 1905 (but possibly not built until c.1907) by James A. Hanna for Mr. Francis McCormick JP. No 16 became Mr McCormick’s home while the remaining houses were a speculative development.

References- Primary sources
1 Copy of the architect’s original drawing [In the possession of the owner of no.14.]
2 PRONI VAL/12E/121/2/1-3 Valuation town plan of Donaghadee, 1908-35
3 PRONI VAL/3G/69/2/1-3 Valuation town plan of Donaghadee, 1932-56
4 PRONI VAL/3G/69/1/1-3 Valuation town plan of Donaghadee, 1934-43

Secondary sources
1 Hugh Dixon, Ken Kenmuir and Jill Kennett, ‘Historic buildings…Donaghadee and Portpatrick (Belfast, 1977), p.25

Criteria for listing: architectural interest

A. Style
B. Proportion
C. Ornamentation
D. Plan Form
H-. Alterations detracting from building
I. Quality and survival of Interior
K. Group value

Criteria for listing: historic interest

V. Authorship
X. Local Interest

Evaluation

Large, two and a half storey Edwardian free style terrace house; part of a distinctive asymmetric block of c.1905 by James A. Hanna containing three dwellings sporting a typical Hannaesque mixture of canted bays with scalloped parapets, half dormer gables and prominent chimneys and all executed in a mixture of brick, stone and rough cast. No.12 forms the east end of the terrace and is largely identical to the middle property, no.14, with both ultimately tradition plan terrace houses dressed in a façade of Edwardian electicism. This property, no.16, to the west end, is larger (double pile) and of more complex, less traditional design, but lacking the decorative scalloped parapet and battered half-dormer, it is somewhat less decorative than its neighbours.