34 High Street, Comber, Co. Down, BT23 5HL is a Grade B2 listed building in the Ards and North Down local planning authority area, Northern Ireland. First listed on 4 March 1977.

34 High Street, Comber, Co. Down, BT23 5HL

WRENN ID
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Grade
B2
Local Planning Authority
Ards and North Down
Constituency
Strangford MP: Jim Shannon (DUP)
Country
Northern Ireland
Date first listed
4 March 1977
Irish grid reference
J 457 691
Coordinates
54.54962, -5.74784
Source
NI Environment Agency listing

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Description

34 High Street, Comber

A small two-storey vernacular house of probable pre-1834 origin, situated in the middle of a terrace on the south-east side of High Street. The building is set on a slope rising north-east to south-west.

The front north-west façade features a timber panelled and glazed door with a painted stone surround and keystone, positioned to the left of the ground floor. A sash window with vertical glazing bars (2 over 2) stands to either side of the doorway. On the first floor is a sash window with Georgian panes (6 over 6), positioned left of centre.

To the left and rear of the main structure is a small single-storey gabled return, shared with No. 36. The north-east face of this return has a doorway at centre, similar to the front door but with a large single pane of glazing, flanked by small sash windows with horizontal glazing bars (2 over 2) to left and right. The gable is blank. On the main rear façade to the right of the return, a sash window sits at high level on the ground floor. On the first floor to the left is a slightly squat three-pane window positioned close to the eaves.

The front façade is finished in plain render; the rear and return are roughcast. All façades are painted. The gabled roof is covered in natural slate, as is the return roof. A rendered chimney stack rises at the north-east end of the roof ridge. Aluminium rainwater goods are present.

Historical records show this site occupied in 1722. The present house is likely the property noted in the 1834 valuation as home to George Williamson. The valuers observed it was of reasonable age then and may have dated from the 1790s or slightly later. The entire terrace is believed to have once housed workers of the nearby brewery (later the Upper Distillery) and may have been purpose-built for this use. In 1920 the terrace was acquired by Andrews flax spinning mill for employee housing. It was vested in the Housing Executive in 1980, acquired by Hearth Housing Association in 1984, and sympathetically renovated in 1986. The entire terrace underwent this restoration programme together.

Local climate

34 High Street, Comber, Co. Down, BT23 5HL sits in a wetter-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 1,130 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 88% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 93% of listed buildings.

It experiences an average of 1 freeze-thaw cycle a year, fewer than 99% of listed buildings. Of these, 1 follows at least 1 mm of rain in the preceding 48 hours. Average temperatures at this location have risen by 0.2°C per decade since 1991.

Averages for 1991–2020; temperature trend 1991–2025. Figures describe the wider area (a grid cell of roughly 10 km), not the individual site. Contains modified Copernicus Climate Change Service information 2026.

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