7-9 Main Street, Greyabbey, Newtownards, Co. Down, BT22 2NE

A relatively large two-storey terrace house dating from around the 1840s, now occupied by shops and a dental surgery, situated on the south side of Main Street in Greyabbey. The building features a late Victorian shop front and a pitched roof covered with concrete pantiles.

The front elevation faces roughly north and is asymmetrical. At the centre is a panelled timber door with fanlight, encased with an 'in and out' surround, entablature, cornice and blocking course. The upper panels of the door have semicircular arch heads. This doorway leads to a hallway with stairs and the dentist's surgery on the first floor (No. 7). A small projecting sign is positioned above and to the right of the doorway.

To the left of the doorway is the shop front for No. 9. At the centre of this shop front is a timber and glazed double shop door with semicircular arch heads to the glazed panels. Above this is a fanlight with tracery, with both door and fanlight encased with panelled pilasters with curved brackets. To either side of the doorway is a three-light (six pane) shop window with semicircular arch heads to the lights and pilasters to the sides of the window opening. Directly above the doorway and windows is a painted signboard with a dentilled cornice above it.

To the right of the No. 9 doorway is a sash window with Georgian panes (6/6), featuring a simple surround and cheval de fries to the cill. This window belongs to a small one-room picture shop which is technically part of No. 7. To the far right is an elliptical arch-headed carriage opening with wrought iron gates, leading to a large yard at the rear. Within the archway is a door to the small picture shop.

The first floor has five windows, all matching the ground floor right window except for the fifth window, which has frosted glass and no astragals. The front facade is finished in plain render with a chamfered plinth.

To the rear of the building is a small courtyard with a very large two-level lean-to extension featuring an outside open staircase to its exposed east elevation, leading to an upper level door. At the east side of the rear of the lean-to is a small flat-roofed extension with a modern corner window. Attached to the west (right) side is a long single-storey structure now converted to a coffee shop at the north end and several other smaller units at the south end.

On the east exposed side of the rear of the main house is a first floor window above the carriage arch, matching those on the front elevation. On the east side of the courtyard is a shorter row of single-storey former outbuildings now converted to small retail units. The rear of the main house, the lean-to and the other units are mainly finished in roughcast.

The main building has a pitched roof with three red and yellow brick chimney stacks and a tall modern concrete brick stack to the rear. Two cast iron skylights are positioned on the rear roof elevation. The lean-to roof has asbestos 'slates' and three Velux windows. Cast iron rainwater goods are present throughout.

Historical records show that buildings are marked on this site on the Ordnance Survey map of 1834, though it is difficult to determine whether they match the siting of this block exactly. The revised map of around 1860 shows the site completely covered. The front facade appears much as it does today in a photograph of Main Street dating from around 1920.