6-9 Court Square, Newtownards, Co. Down, BT23 3NZ

Site of former two storey terrace at the south end of Court Square, Newtownards. The block, which probably dated from the mid 19th century, consisted of four dwellings and a shop and was demolished around 1986 or 1987.

The building had a hipped slate roof and rendered walls with bevel quoins and base. The shop occupied the ground floor left-hand end, featuring a two-light shop window with vertical astragals and arch, framed by three fluted pilasters beneath a signboard with frieze and dentiled wood cornice. The shop door was panelled with a plain fanlight above it.

The residential sections comprised a sequence of house doors and windows along the ground floor. Notable doorways included examples with arch heads and keystones on pilasters. One doorway at number 9 had a decorated fanlight and decorated panelled door; another at number 8 featured a 'sunrise' fanlight above a glazed and panelled door (latter of recent date).

The first floor contained nine double-hung sash windows. The three left-hand windows retained Georgian panes with astragals; the remaining windows had no astragals. Number 9 featured horizontal astragals. Rendered chimneys and concrete brick construction were evident. The building's overall frontage measured approximately 75 feet.

Historical context: Court Square lies within the medieval settlement area north of the 13th century priory. Colville's town plan of 1720 marked the site as 'Bowling Green' with a row of dwellings on the west side. By the first Ordnance Survey map of 1834, buildings occupied the site, with the green serving as an occasional cattle market. The southern extension of the row to meet newly-cut Court Street appears on maps from 1858 onwards; this extension either in part or wholly comprised the block that stood here until the 1980s.

The site is now occupied by the Elim Pentecostal Church, erected in 1987.