156 High Street, Holywood, Co Down, BT18 9HT

A semi-detached three-bay two-storey with dormered attic red-brick Victorian house, built c.1860 and located east of Old Belfast Road on the outskirt of Holywood town centre. Square on plan with two-storey extension to rear under cat-slide roof; canted and box bay to front. Pitched natural slate roof with decorative terracotta ridge tiles and red brick chimneystacks; timber eaves board on bracketed eaves and decorative bargeboard to gable. Cast-iron ogee rainwater goods with decorative cast-iron hopper. Walling is Flemish-bonded red brick; continuous sill to first floor. Windows are 1/1 timber sliding sash; segmental-headed to first floor with voussoir heads; bay windows have continuous painted stone lintels and continuous sills topped by moulded architraves and cornice; two shaped Dutch-style gabled dormers with ball finials. The principal elevation faces west and is symmetrically arranged. Paired windows to first floor left and right, over box bay to right and canted bay to left. Single window to centre over entrance comprising six-panelled timber door having brass door furniture and surmounted by plain fanlight; door surround is recessed with brick voussoirs over, comprising two polished granite colonnettes with moulded stone bands to wall and supported on stepped stone plinth; surmounted by round-headed arch with stone detailing and moulded plinths; carved stops at springing level. Entrance accessed by four masonry steps enclosed by dwarf wall. The north elevation has paired windows to left and window to right at ground and first floor and two round-headed windows to attic. To right is raised chimney flue terminating in decorative corbel bracket at right attic window. The east (rear) elevation has two-storey extension under cat-slide roof (concealed). The west elevation is abutted by adjoining building; HB23/19/026A. Setting Set on a slightly elevated site with lawned garden to front and rear enclosed by mature hedgerow. Entrance has replacement boundary wall, gate piers and cast-iron gates. Detached garage to rear with modern timber gate leading to rear garden. Rear yard is enclosed by red-brick partially stepped wall having modern timber-sheeted door. Roof: Natural slate Walling: brick Windows: timber RWG: cast-iron