1 Ean Hill, Holywood, Co. Down

A one-and-a-half-storey three-bay former parochial house, built c.1870 located to the south of Ean Hill in Holywood town centre. Rectangular on plan with projecting porch and two-storey return to rear; second storey tower rises from centre. Pitched natural slate roof with terracotta ridge tiles pierced with trefoil detail and finials to gables; decorative fascia and bargeboards; rectangular smooth render chimneystacks with plinth chamfered to suggest individual flues, having three tall clay terracotta pots. Modern sky-lights to roof of main block and glass cupola to rear return. Cast-iron half-round rainwater goods on drive-in brackets. Walling is ruled-and-lined smooth render. Windows are replacement 4/4 timber sliding sash (double glazed) with horns in camber-headed arch surrounds with projecting masonry sills. The principal elevation faces east and is four windows wide with central gabled porch having replacement timber-sheeted door. The south gable contains square-headed tripartite window with mullions (central window taller). The west elevation is abutted by return which is flush with north gable; west gable has square-headed tripartite window with mullions (central window is taller). Left cheek has two diminutive windows to first floor and modern timber door to ground floor; right cheek has single window opening. The north elevation comprises 2/2 camber windows to both floors. Castellated tower with Irish crenellations, bracketed frieze and paired 1/1 round-headed, timber windows to all sides. Setting Situated in a largely residential area to the south of Holywood High Street; St Comcille’s church and Tower (HB23/19/009) directly to south; 19th century red-brick terrace housing to north. Tarmacadam car-park to south accessed via modern rubble-stone gate piers with castellated tops; bounded to road by rubble-stone wall. Paved pathway and hedgerow to front; modern timber fence to south and west. Roof: natural slate Walling: render Windows: timber RWG: cast metal (part)