48 Main Street, Crumlin, Co Antrim, BT29 4UR

A symmetrical-fronted two-storey building, three windows wide, with central doorway flanked by single storey canted bays to each side. Main entrance faces north. North elevation: roof of Bangor blue slates in regular courses; abuts higher gable of no. 50 to right; continuous with no. 46 to left. Chimney of concrete brickwork to left hand extremity, modern. Cast iron gutter across front eaves, discharging into cast iron downpipe in front of adjoining building to left (no. 46 Main Street). Walls smooth rendered, lined and blocked, painted white, with raised quoins to left extremity; moulded cornice and moulded plinth continuous around canted bays. Ground floor has central doorway with single storey canted bay window to each side. Door set in segmentally arched moulded surround; fluted keystone, panelled pilasters. Rectangular metal plaque screwed to wall above doorway with inscription 'G.A.H. Lockhart LLB Solicitor'. Ground floor bay to left: roof hipped, with what looks like asbestos slates in regular courses with lead rolls to ridges. Moulded cornice with concealed gutter; circular cast iron downpipe with top portion sunk into wall; walls of bay smooth cement rendered, lined, with wooden framed windows on deep projecting stone cill. Windows rectangular timber vertically hung sliding sash, 1 over 1 to canted sides, 2 over 2 to front face, all with horns; flat wooden soffit to heads; some rot visible to woodwork. Bay to right similar. Front door rectangular glazed and panelled, with 9 panes, bowed front to glazing bars, all modern, painted; modern metal handle and letterbox. Three windows to first floor, rectangular timber vertically hung sliding sash, 1 over 1, with horns, with exposed sash boxes, set in aedicule surrounds incorporating triangular pediments, curved brackets, panelled pilasters, and brackets under cills (one bracket missing to left hand window). The first floor and roofspace above it is now in ownership of no. 50 Main Street (HB20/15/004). Rear elevation: two-storey main block with two-storey gabled return projecting from it. (The return is in ownership of no. 50 Main Street.) Main block has roof of Bangor blue slates in regular courses; chimney of concrete brickwork. Original metal rooflight. Wall rendered with dry dash of white chippings. One small window to left hand side tucked under eaves, looks like rectangular timber fixed light. SETTING: The building stands facing the main street of the village and forms part of a terrace. Its entrance front is set back slightly from the pavement, with the area in front of each bay enclosed by original cast iron railings (some damaged) on coved stone plinth walls; enclosed areas surfaced in concrete. Slightly ramped path laid with small pavings leads from pavement to original granolithic front doorstep.