78-100 Main Street, Ballywalter, Newtownards, Co. Down, BT22 2PJ

Long mixed, but generally plain, two storey terrace of twelve dwellings and shops of probable mid to later 19th century construction. The terrace is set at the northern end of Main Street, Ballywalter. The houses are a mixture of double and single fronted and all have been altered to a greater or lesser degree, with modern timber and PVC windows and doors installed (Nos.82, 86-100), window openings enlarged (Nos.90-98) and pebbledash/limestone chip render to Nos.88, 96 and 100. Nos.90-94 may have had ground floor openings blocked at some stage and doorways shifted to the left (they probably originally looked like No.84). No.100 used to have a doorway (to a shop) where the second window from the left is now. All houses have been extended at the rear and now sport mainly flat roofed extensions, some two storey, and all with modern windows. All of the houses, however, still have Bangor blue slate main roofs, except No.82 which has the asbestos cement variety. Mineral fibre cement slates to Nos.78-80. Velux windows to Nos.80, 84, 94 and 96. Entire terrace has mixture of cast iron and PVC rw goods. Mixture of rendered and brick chimney stacks. No.84 is the most original looking of all of these dwellings and still retains its Georgian sash windows, though it has a modern timber and glazed door and a Velux window. The two shops at the S end of the terrace are slightly taller than the houses and have been much altered in recent times, with window openings enlarged on the ground floor and modern shop fronts installed with PVC signs, of the internally illuminated sort and otherwise. Both shops have large returns to the rear, with that to No.80 unrendered revealing rubble construction with brick dressings to windows.