About us

Situated in/ beside the Clandeboye Avenue, and 2 minutes from Helen’s Bay Station Bridge House is an ideal base for business and pleasure alike.

Clandeboye Avenue is a carriageway built in 1850 by James Frazer for Lord Dufferin to connect Clandeboye House with Helen’s Bay Railway station and the beach. Overgrown in places it is still possible to distinguish lines of trees and see supporting walls.

From Bridge House you pass under the bridge just below Helen’s Bay Station noting the extra width of the carriageway to allow the horse drawn carriages to turn and to the left one can see the bricked up entrance and steps to the private waiting room and the station platform.

Bridge House is a family run bed and breakfast offering comfortable ensuite accommodation in 2 rooms

The rooms are both overlooking the garden and there is a choice of either a double bedded room or one with twin beds. Both rooms are equipped with irons, TVs and tea and coffee making facilities.

Downstairs you are welcome to relax in the drawing room where there is an open fire and breakfast is served in the adjoining dining room.

With a variety of countryside, forest and seaside walks directly from the house Bridge House is the perfect base for that perfect getaway.

Within walking distance of Helen’s Bay Golf Club and with 7 other courses within 5 miles it is a golfers paradise.

As the family also run an outside catering business you can be assured of having a great breakfast either full Irish or continental.

 

 

 
     
 


A little History

Helen’s Bay is a village on the North Down coastline at Grey Point between Crawfordsburn and Seahill, four miles west of Bangor. It is named after Helen Sheridan (Lady Helen Dufferin) mother of Frederick Hamilton-Temple-Blackwood, 1st Marquess of Dufferin and Ava and owners of the Clandeboye Estate. It is served by a railway station on the Bangor to Belfast line.

Helen’s Bay is a planned village which derived from the building of the Belfast and County Down railway (BCDR) in the mid 19th century, and the aspirations of the local landlord, the marquis of Dufferin and Ava who wanted to develop the area as a luxury holiday resort to rival Portstewart and Portrush. The granting of ‘villa’ or ‘house-free’ tickets by the BCDR Company if they constructed houses within one mile of the station, encouraged further development of the settlement.

 

 
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