12 Galtrim Road, Bray

12 Galtrim Rd	Modern picture of 9 Galtrim Rd	Galtrim Rd

Plan of	9 Galtrim Rd in 2007

We were offered the use of 12 Galtrim Road, Bray, as the Rev Boyd, whom we knew, was going on a year long world trip. We agreed to pay the very reasonable rent suggested, and we took up residence there on 1^st October 1919, and we later bought the house from the owners.

Terraced two-bay two-storey house, built in 1907 as part of a uniform row of thirteen properties. To the front elevation there is a full-height square bay topped with a gable. The façade is finished in brick to the ground floor level, unpainted roughcast to the upper level, and mock timber framing to the bay. The tiled pitched roof has a slight overhang with exposed rafter ends and plain bargeboards, decorative ridge tiles and a shared brick chimneystack with corbelling. The entrance consists of a semi-circular headed opening with moulded archivolt, which fronts a recessed porch, within which is a part glazed timber door screen. The windows are flat-headed and have mullioned and transomed timber frames, with casement and top-hung openings. The upper lights of the frames are filled with small panes, some leaded. Cast-iron rainwater goods. The building has a street frontage, but is separated from the street by a garden which is enclosed by a rendered and brick wall, and a decorative wrought-iron gate which has square brick piers with cement-rendered, pediment-like caps.

Well preserved Edwardian house, which forms part of one of Bray's most complete and most attractive terraces.

Charles William Grant