146 High Street, Holywood, Co Down, BT18 9HS

A two-bay three-storey Victorian mid-terrace townhouse, built c.1855 and located to the south of High Street in Holywood town centre. Rectangular on plan with three-storey return to rear. Pitched natural slate roof with brick chimneys having terracotta pots. Cast-iron ogee rainwater goods on overhanging corbelled eaves with paired brackets. Walling is Flemish bonded red-brick with painted smooth render having band rustication to ground floor; smooth painted render to rear elevation. Windows are a variety of timber framed sliding sash with flat brick arches; canted bay to ground floor is 2/2 (having horizontal glazing bars) with moulded window surround divided by Doric pilasters, plain entablature with dentilled frieze corbelled eaves and parapet: segmental-headed 6/2 windows and continuous sill to first floor; 6/6 to second floor and to rear. The principal elevation faces west and is two openings wide. To right is canted bay. Entrance accessed by two stone steps; door has four raised-and-fielded panels with brass door furniture and transom light; panelled pilaster surround with ornate console brackets surmounted by moulded entablature with dentilled eaves and projecting corbelled pediment. The north gable is abutted by adjoining building (HB23/19/006C) The east (rear) elevation has a window to left at first and second floor with a uPVC double-leaf door to ground floor; abutted to right by lower three-storey return. Return has window and modern timber door to second floor, a single window to second floor, and is abutted to ground floor by a small lean-to. Exposed section to left with two window openings to each floor. The south elevation is abutted by adjoining building (HB23/19/006E) Setting Situated to the south of High Street in Holywood town centre, with St Comcille’s Church and Tower (HB23/19/009) directly to south. Tarmacadam car-park to east semi-enclosed with painted masonry wall. Small paved garden to front enclosed by simple cast-iron railings and gate. Roof: Natural Slate Walling: Red brick and renderr Windows: timber RWG: Cast-iron