22 High Street, Donaghadee, County Down, BT21 0AH

Small, plain, two-storey terraced shop with apartment over, of probable mid 18th century construction and originally part of the large neighbouring three-storey formal house to the south-east. The ground floor was formerly an open carriage entrance, which was enclosed c.1840s. The property is set on the north-eastern side of Main Street, in Donaghadee town centre. To the north-west side is the forecourt of the First Presbyterian Church; to the south-east is the larger block to which this building appears to have originally belonged. To the rear there is a large open yard; this is shared with the adjoining block and is accessed off Townhall Lane. The front façade faces south-west, for ease of description this is referred to as west; orientations of all other facades are similarly ‘corrected’. The building is single-fronted. A c.1980s style shop front fills the ground floor level; this has a solid steel roller shutter with a projecting box. Above is an off-centre plastic signboard. To the centre of the first floor there is a flat-headed window opening with a 1/1, timber sash frame. The ground floor advances slightly. The north gable is finished with plain render and is blank. To the rear, the original east façade is almost entirely obscured with a later two-storey return; this was recently partly demolished. Openings to the return are all boarded over. The main roof is pitched with fibre cement slates. A rendered chimneystack rises on the apex of the gable; this has a corbelled cap and clay pot. The exposed verges are clipped, without overhangs. The roof to the return is pitched and covered with natural slate. Rainwater goods are part missing, those remaining are uPVC. The front wall is finished with roughcast render. A small exposed area of the rear wall is un-rendered, revealing random rubble construction. Walls to the return are finished with plain un-painted render.