Old Children’s Home, Church Road, Holywood, County Down

The building was a house, likely dating to the mid-19th century. It has since been demolished and replaced with a single-storey dwelling on the same site.

The original building presented a two-storey facade with a hipped, slated roof and rendered chimneys. The walls were rendered, lined, and painted, with a frieze at the eaves. The front elevation was arranged in two bays. The left-hand bay featured two first-floor (F/FL) double-height (D/H) windows with horizontal astragal glazing and decorative shoulder brackets supporting a small pediment. A more recent, simplified oriel window was positioned below the first-floor sill. The ground floor (Gr/FL) featured double-height windows without astragal glazing, topped with a plain parapet. To the right was a recessed section with ground and first-floor storeys. The ground floor recess featured a segmental-arched head with bevelled band dressings and a carved head on the keystone. Below, channelled and vermiculated pilaster quoins were set against a bevel base. The first-floor windows within the recess had horizontal astragal glazing, a segmental arch head, and a small archivolt with decorative drops. The ground floor entrance was framed by two Ionic columns with side antae, an architrave, and a cornice hood supported on two decorative brackets, with a decorated panel in the frieze. A two-leaf panelled door with a plain fanlight was set behind the columns, approached by a wide flight of six steps with decorative stone pier drums curving outwards.

The right-hand bay was set back approximately 12 inches and featured a first-floor double-height window with horizontal astragal glazing, pilaster jambs and a decorative archivolt with keystone. The ground floor had a double-height window with horizontal astragal glazing and decorative brackets below a cornice hood. The south-facing front had a single-storey oriel, an eaves entablature with a balustrade parapet, pilaster jambs and mullions, and a decorative sill. A north-facing extension featured a single-storey, shed-roofed loggia. The interior plasterwork was described as "good." Outbuildings and more recent additions were present, some still under construction. The building was in fair to poor condition. The main west front measured approximately 46 feet.