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

A two-bay three-storey Victorian end-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 smooth painted render to rear elevation; vermiculated block quoins. 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 and corbelled eaves: segmental-headed 6/2 windows and continuous sill to first floor; 1/1 to second floor and uPVC 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 transom light; panelled pilaster surround with console brackets surmounted by corniced canopy. The north gable is abutted by adjoining building; HB23/19/009E. The east (rear) elevation has a single opening to left at each floor; abutted to right by lower three-storey return. Return has single opening to first and second floor at gable; ground floor abutted by masonry off-shot. Exposed section to left with two openings to each floor; ground floor with replacement timber door to left. The south elevation has a window to left at each floor, each as those on the front elevation. 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. Paved rear yard enclosed with masonry wall; timber gate gives access to paved and gravelled rear garden, enclosed to south by timber fence and to east by outbuilding. Small garden to front with paved pathway; enclosed by simple cast-iron railings and gate with hedgerow to west. Roof: Natural Slate Walling: red-brick and render Windows: Timbeand uPVC RWG: Cast-iron