2 Church Street, Greyabbey, Newtownards, Co. Down, BT22 2NQ

2 Church Street is a large two-storey terrace house built around the 1860s, situated at the south-west end of Church Street where it meets Main Street in Greyabbey. Although largely Georgian in appearance, it incorporates a distinctly Victorian shop front, suggesting a dual commercial and residential purpose.

The building is constructed of roughcast with plain quoins and a slightly recessed plinth. The gabled roof is slated and carries four evenly spaced yellow brick chimney stacks, with a tall brick chimney stack rising to the gable of the return. Rainwater goods are PVC to the front facade and cast iron to the rear.

The front south-west elevation is asymmetrical. To the right is the house front door, set in an elliptical arch recess with a plain sheeted door, wide timber jambs, and an elliptical arch radial fanlight. Flanking the doorway are sash windows with Georgian panes—one to the left and one to the right of the door, with five further similar evenly spaced windows on the first floor. To the far left of the ground floor is a timber shop front featuring a large three-light window with semicircular headed panes filled with small diamond leaded lights, positioned on either side of the shop doorway. Thick timber mullions separate the windows and doorway, and the entire ensemble is framed by plain pilasters to the outer side of each window and a timber sign board above. The modern shop door is glazed with many Georgian-like panes. A metal street sign is mounted beneath the left-hand shop window.

The north-west gable contains a very small four-pane attic window near the apex and a larger first-floor window to the left, matching those on the front elevation. The rear elevation features a gabled return with a small sash window on the ground floor to the right and a small timber sheeted loft door at upper level. A small lean-to projection adjoins the north-east side of the return, with a dilapidated louvre window to the north-east and a recessed doorway with timber sheeted door to the north-west. The main rear elevation has a small plain sheeted timber door slightly left of centre, with a window as on the front to its right and a very small single pane window immediately to the left of the door. A sash window matching those on the front is positioned further left, with a small four-pane window at the far left. The first floor has three sash windows as before, with the central window positioned at a slightly lower landing level. The rear is finished in roughcast like the front.

The rear garden is large and contains several rubble-built outbuildings.

Historical evidence suggests the building dates from around 1862. Although a building is shown on this site on the Ordnance Survey map of 1834, the site appears blank on the revised map of circa 1860, indicating the current structure was erected between these dates. The radial tracery of the fanlight above the house door is identical to that on the Presbyterian Manse in Main Street, which dates from 1862, suggesting contemporaneity. The shop front also displays distinctly Victorian character. The shop section appears to have ceased trading considerable time ago.