19 High Street, Donaghadee, Co Down

Two storey house with basement, of c.1800-10, set at the end of a terrace on the SW side of High Street, next to Church Lane.Front NE facade as an entrance to the far left. This consists of a panelled door and semicircular fanlight with tracery. The door is surrounded with plain pilasters supporting a pediment which is broken by the fanlight. Steps to doorway. To the right of the doorway is a sash window with Georgian panes. To the far right is a Venetian window with Georgian panes and spider web tracery to semicircular arch section. To the first floor are four evenly spaced sash windows, as before. The front facade is carried up as a parapet. Just below the ground floor windows are steps down to the basement level, steps which are enclosed by a low rendered wall with wrought iron spear head railings and a largely simple, recent looking wrought iron pedestrian gate to the SE end. The steps lead to a narrow paved terrace. To the ‘front’ facade (NE) of the basement level is a doorway covered by a modern roller shutter. To the SE ‘facade’ (i.e. the section directly below the steps leading to the front entrance) there is a PVC window covered by a grill. The NW gable end has a window, as front to the right on the ground floor, a pane of which is now boarded. This gable merges with the NW facade of a large two storey gabled return which has a double sliding sash window (without panes) to the ground and to the first floor. This return facade merges with the NW facade of a single storey (two level) lean to extension which has a small modern window at ground floor level. The rear has been extended on a number of occasions and little of the original facade appears to remain, having been obliterated largely by another large single storey lean to extension (to the SE of the gabled return), which itself has been added to the rear of a two storey hipped roof projection, partly shared between this property and No.21. All rear openings appear to be modern both in terms of size and of window frame style. The front facade is finished in lined render and painted, as is most of the gable. The rear is mainly finished in plain render and painted. The main roof is gabled and covered in pantiles. The return and other extensions are finished in a combination of fibre cement, and Bangor blue slates to the hipped roof projection. Mixture of cast iron and PVC rw goods. Rendered chimney stack.