10-12 Bridge Street, Comber, Co. Down, BT23 5AT

A matching pair of three-storey terrace houses, positioned at the end of a terrace on the north side of Bridge Street in Comber, dating to approximately 1870.

The south-facing front façade of No. 10 (the western property) features a panelled door on the ground floor to the left, with a plain fanlight above and the entire composition framed by plain pilasters, entablature and dentilled cornice. To the right is a window with moulded surround. Both the door and window now have PVC frames. The first floor has a single window and the second floor a slightly smaller window, all with moulded surrounds and PVC frames. No. 12's front façade mirrors this arrangement but with the elements handed in reverse. Both façades are finished in painted lined render with chamfered in-and-out quoins at the wall edges.

The eastern gable end is rendered in similar painted lined finish and is blank, though a large billboard has since been attached. The rear façade is finished in unpainted cement render. On the ground floor, No. 12 has a timber-sheeted door with glazed panel to the left and a small window with PVC frame to its right. No. 10 has an identical door and window arrangement immediately to the right of No. 12's. The two upper floors each have three windows, with those to the far right on each floor positioned at a lower level. Without interior access, the precise division of windows between the two properties cannot be determined.

The gabled roof is finished in asbestos-free slate and has a tall rendered chimney stack at the centre and a small brick stack to the west. PVC rainwater goods are present throughout. Both properties were gutted and completely renovated in 1998-99.

Though buildings occupied this site from at least 1722, the architectural style of the present houses indicates construction in the mid to later 19th century, circa 1870. This is supported by the 1834 valuation survey, which shows no buildings of this height on Bridge Street at that date. It is possible both houses represent remodelling of earlier, smaller structures, though this seems unlikely. A complete interior renovation was undertaken in 1998-99.