33 Shore Road, Holywood, Co Down, BT18 9HX

A three-bay two-storey former house and post-office, built c.1820 and located to the north of Shore Road near Holywood town centre. Rectangular on plan with a single-storey return and 1-and-a-half storey return to rear. Pitched natural slate roof with terracotta ridge tiles and rectangular rendered chimneystacks having terracotta pots. Cast-iron half-round rainwater goods on corbelled eaves. Walling is painted smooth render. Windows are a variety of multi-paned timber-framed sliding sash with painted masonry projecting sills. The principal elevation faces west and is three window openings wide, with entrance door off-set slightly to left. Four-panelled bolection-moulded timber door having brass door furniture and transom light; Doric pilaster surround surmounted by plain entablature. Replacement timber-framed sliding sash window to right at ground-floor. The north elevation is abutted by adjoining building. The east (rear) elevation is asymmetrically arranged, with seven window openings; to left at ground floor is a round-headed 6/3 window; to centre at first floor is a diminutive window; the remainder are 6/6. To left is one-and-a-half storey return: exposed section with two sets of modern double-leaf doors to ground floor: to extreme left is simple timber door: there is a diminutive modern window to right of centre at first floor. To right of main block is a single-storey extension; exposed section having two modern windows to either side of modern timber door. Skylights to all roofs including main block. Setting: The house is set back slightly from the pavement with a small gravelled garden to front surrounded by painted masonry plinth wall topped by cast-iron railings and accessed by modern cast-iron gate. Paved courtyard to rear enclosed by timber fence. Roof: slate Walling: render Windows: timber RWG: Cast-iron